Patz to present Nixon Lecture
The Department of Family and Community Medicine will host the Sam & Elizabeth Nixon Lectureship in Family Medicine, Nov. 2 in MSB 2.135 and via Cisco Webex.
The keynote speaker for the lectureship is Jonathan A. Patz, MD, MPH, Vilas Distinguished Professor and John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Population Health Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Patz will present on “Solving the Climate Crisis: Golden Opportunities for Health Promotion” from 1-2 p.m.
Webex Meeting Number: 2620 677 6830
Webex Password: FMRDidactics22
Patz co-chaired the health report for the first congressionally-mandated US National Assessment on Climate Change, and for 15 years served as a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Patz received the Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellows Award; shared the Zayed International Prize for the Environment; a Fulbright Scholarship; the American Public Health Association’s Homer Calver Award for environmental health leadership; the Case Western School of Medicine Alumni Special Recognition Award; the Chanchlani Global Health Research Award; and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Patz has taught and conducted research on the health effects of climate change and global environmental change, “Planetary Health,” for more than 25 years and has published over 200 science publications and several textbooks on the subject.