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DR JODI SHERMAN

Jodi Sherman, MD, is Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, and founding director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability in the Yale Centre on Climate Change and Health. Dr Sherman also serves as the Medical Director of Sustainability for Yale-New Haven Health System.

Dr Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher in the emerging field of sustainability in clinical care. Her research interest is in life cycle assessment (LCA) of environmental emissions, human health impacts, and economic impacts of drugs, devices, clinical care pathways, and health systems. Her work seeks to establish sustainability metrics, paired with health outcomes and costs, to help guide clinical decision-making, professional behaviour, and organizational management toward more ecologically sustainable practices to improve the quality, safety and value of clinical care and to protect public health.

Dr Sherman routinely collaborates with environmental engineers, epidemiologists, toxicologists, health economists, health administrators, health professionals, and sustainability professionals. Dr Sherman is a member of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and was contributing analyst for the UK National Health Service Net Zero Initiative, and serves on the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative for Decarbonization of the U.S. Health Sector.

  

DR JENNA HELMER SOBEY

Dr. Sobey is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Monroe Carroll Junior Children’s Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee in the US. She received her medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She then went on to pursue her residency training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and completed her pediatric anesthesia fellowship in 2014 at Vanderbilt as well and she has been on faculty since that time.

Her clinical interests include pediatric regional anesthesia and acute pain management, complex cranial vault reconstruction, and spine surgery. She also serves as the program director for the pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Monroe Carroll Junior Children’s Hospital and has also been involved with global pediatric anesthesia.

Her research interests included pediatric volume responsiveness, specifically, non-invasive venous waveform analysis (NIVA) for predicting volume responsiveness in the perioperative environment. 

   

DR SUREN ARUL

As a paediatric surgeon working at Birmingham Children’s Hospital my major interests are in surgical oncology, laparoscopy, congenital anomalies and major trauma. I trained at Bristol, Birmingham and Melbourne.   Our work on percutaneous ultrasound guided vascular access has proven this approach can be used for any age or size of child and helped change practice around the world.

I am the surgeon on the national germ cell tumour working group and am involved in the international collaborative (MAGIC) on germ cell tumours. My experience from military deployments with the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan developed an academic interest in the management battlefield injuries in children and human factors in the operating theatre.  The ‘Paediatric Advanced Cadaveric Trauma Course (PACTS)’ is the first anywhere in the world (as far as I know) that is specifically designed for the management of paediatric trauma – we take a whole theatre human factors approach with anaesthetists, scrub nurses and surgeons of all specialties to train them in the management of operative major trauma and though we use adult cadavers for the operations the scenarios and the teaching is all focused on children. We have had candidates from as far a field as Philippines and Costa Rica.

Much of the military experience has now been translated into the NHS with such projects as damage control surgery in neonates.  Other interests include using standardisation to reduce clinical variation and thereby improving outcomes, training and productivity.

Life outside work includes a wife (Kate), 3 children, 5 chickens, a dog, gardening, and as the leader of our local village scout troop.  During the pandemic we set up a family business called ‘Joe’s Doughs’ making sourdough and cakes. 


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