"From Bedside to Byline: Physician's Perspective on Communicating Health Impacts of Climate Change"

Presentation: "From Bedside to Byline: A Physician's Perspective on Communicating the Health Impacts of Climate Change"
Neha Pathak is part of WebMD's Medical Team, which is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of health information on WebMD. She oversees a national network of doctors that reviews content across the site and works with the editorial teams that create it. This includes news, special reports, WebMD Magazine, videos, mobile applications, tools, and health reference content. She also reports on topics related to lifestyle and environmental impacts on health for WebMD and Medscape. As Chief Physician Editor, Health and Lifestyle Medicine, Pathak is a media spokesperson for WebMD and hosts WebMD's Health Discovered podcast. Before joining WebMD, Pathak worked as a primary care doctor at the Department of Veterans Affairs and completed the VA Quality Scholars/Quality Improvement Fellowship Program. She is on the faculty of the Atlanta VA Medical Center's Quality Scholars Program and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Pathak continues to see patients and works with local communities dealing with health impacts of environmental pollution. Her work has been published in medical journals, textbooks, and the lay press.
The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health utilizes research, education, and public health practice to help safeguard the health of human populations from adverse impacts of climate change and human activities that cause climate change. To learn more about our work, please visit: bit.ly/YCCCH.