Plenary Panel - Environment, Health Care & Leadership:
The Role of CEOs

  • James Tuchschmidt, MD, Portland VA Medical Center

  • Judith Waterston, MSN, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network

  • James Lussier, Cascade Healthcare Community & St. Charles Medical Center



  • Concurrent Panels
    Green Building Benefits: Reconnecting Nature and Healing
  • Judith Heerwagen, PhD, JH Heerwagen & Associates

  • Ray Pradinuk, MscArch, MBAIC, Stantec Architecture Ltd.


  • Mercury’s Final Frontier - from Labs to Global Health Care
  • Rebecca Clouse, RN, MS, American Nurses Association

  • Josh Karliner, Health Care Without Harm


  • Green Computers? Using your IT Purchasing Power to Protect Public Health
  • Jim Puckett, Basel Action Network

  • N’Dombele Nkunku, Kaiser Permanente

  • Gina Pugliese, RN, MS, Premier, Inc.

  • Sheila Davis, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition


  • Rising Concerns: Impacts of Low Level Exposures to Toxic Chemicals
  • Richard Grady, MD, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle

  • Karen Bowman, MN, RN, COHN-S, Washington State Nurses Association

  • Davis Baltz, MS, Commonweal



  • Concurrent Panels
    The Business Case for Green Buildings
  • Lisa Fay Mathiessen, AIA Assoc, Davis Langdon

  • Jan Stensland, MS, IIDA, LEED AP, Kaiser Permanente


  • Healthy Food: Linking Production & Healthcare
  • David Wallinga, MD, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy


  • Brominated Flame Retardants: Hazards & Alternatives
  • Sarah Janssen, MD, PhD, MPH, University of California San Francisco

  • Tim Greiner, Pure Strategies, Inc.


  • Precautionary Action & Ethics
  • Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, Science and Environmental Health Network

  • Lucia Athens, BSLA, MSAS, City of Seattle Sustainable Building Program

  • Susan Wilburn, MPH, BSN, RN, World Health Organization and Washington State Nurses Association

  • Roy Farrell, MD, Group Health Cooperative

  • Steven G. Gilbert, PhD, DABT, Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

  • Gregg Small, Washington Toxics Coalition



  • Concurrent Panels
    Healthy Hospitals: Boston Green Building Initiatives
  • Bill Ravanesi, MPH, Health Care Without Harm


  • Healthy Food Approaches
  • Jamie Harvie, PE, Institute for a Sustainable Future

  • Mary Cranley, RN, NP, MSN, Kaiser Permanente

  • Nancy Gummer, RD, LD, CDE, Good Shepherd Medical Center


  • How Much Did We Save? Measuring Waste Reduction & Cost Savings
  • Laura Brannen, Hospitals for a Healthy Environment & Joe Petrella, Wheaton Franciscan System


  • Moving Upstream: Implementing Chemicals Policy in Health Care
  • Jean Livingston, RN, MS, PhD, Consorta, Inc.

  • Lynn Garske, HEM, Kaiser Permanente

  • Cheri Peele, Washington State Department of Ecology