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May 20-22, 2008
Pittsburgh, PA • Hilton Pittsburgh
Join us for CleanMed 2008, the Global Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Health Care
Join health care leaders, product vendors, purchasing directors, food service directors, health care providers and other health care decision-makers to discuss the latest trends in:
• Nutritious, Sustainable Foods and Food Systems
• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
• Energy Efficiency
• Green Building
• Safer Materials and Healthy Chemical Policies
• Green Electronics
• Environmentally Preferable Medical Waste Treatment and Disposal
• Waste Reduction and Recycling
To accelerate the development, use, and diffusion of environmentally preferable products and practices, and the construction of green buildings in health care by disseminating examples of best practices and convening health care professionals, university researchers, designers of professional buildings, and vendors of cleaner and safer products and services.
- To provide examples of best practices in environmentally preferable purchasing from the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
- To address environmentally sustainable design practices and construction materials in healthcare.
- To discuss and evaluate initiatives to incorporate environmentally preferable purchasing in health care and group purchasing organizations.
- To showcase environmentally preferable and occupationally safer products and practices.
- To evaluate alternatives to medical waste incineration.
- Sustainable building materials
- Products free of mercury, latex, PVC, and DEHP
- Energy and water conservation
- Tools and resources for environmentally preferable purchasing
- Greener cleaners
- Integrated pest management
- Waste Reduction and Recycling
- Green Electronics
- Managing pharmaceuticals
- Environmentally Preferable Medical Waste Treatment and Disposal
- Safer alternatives to PBDEs: products in health care settings
- Nutritious, Sustainable Foods and Food Systems
- Ronald M. Davis, MD
President, American Medical Association
- David W. Orr, PhD
Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College
- Senior healthcare and GPO executives
- Health care architects & designers
- Purchasing and materiamanagers
- Building engineers
- Environmentahealth & safety leaders
- Facilities managers
- Medicadevice manufacturers
- University researchers
- Nursing and clinicaleaders
Click here for more information on our Stephanie Davis Waste Reduction Scholarship
CleanMed 2006 in Seattle provided a rewarding opportunity for leaders in the health care sector and vendors of environmentally preferable products to meet. The conference:
Resulted in significant environmental commitments from GPOs
Attracted senior executives from major GPOs
AmeriNet
Broadlane
Consorta
Novation
Premier, Inc.
Involved senior managers from leading health care systems
Catholic Health Initiatives
Catholic Healthcare West
Kaiser Permanente
Oregon Science and Health University
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Featured speakers from major teaching hospitals
Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle (University of Washington affiliation)
University of California at San Francisco
Attracted leading green building architects and designers
Guenther 5 Architects
BetterBricks
Gordon H. Chong + Partners
HDR Architecture
Mazzetti & Associates
NBBJ
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