Dr Jay Lemery Named First Endowed Chair in Climate Medicine
Sep 8, 2022The University of Colorado School of Medicine has established an Endowed Chair in Climate Medicine to provide transformational training for physicians to address the health consequences of climate change.
Jay Lemery, MD, professor of emergency medicine, chief of the Section of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, and co-founder of the School of Medicine’s Program on Climate & Health, has been named the inaugural Endowed Chair in Climate Medicine. The CU School of Medicine’s Endowed Chair in Climate Medicine is the first of its kind in the country.
The endowed chair will give Lemery resources to support teaching and research that prepares physicians to be leaders in climate and health, to synthesize earth science with roots in social vulnerabilities, to understand energy policy, climate resilient policies, and environmental justice, and to seek out and lead on opportunities to decarbonize health systems.
Lemery is a highly regarded leader and longtime researcher on climate change and its effect on human health. He has been dedicated to training other health care professionals to do the same.
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