Monday Lunch Live with A/Prof Katherine Barraclough

VCCC MONDAY LUNCH LIVE EVENT

Healthy planet = healthy people

Take care of your body, it's the only place you have to live assumes the body in question has a healthy planet upon which to survive.

Katherine Barraclough is a Consultant Nephrologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and joins us to discuss the interdependence of planetary and human health.

Katherine is a member of Doctors for the Environment Australia and will share insights on the impact that environmental change, particularly climate change, is having and will increasingly have on human health. And what is the impact of healthcare on the environment? Understand the roles healthcare professionals might play in preparing the healthcare system for the impacts of climate change, addressing healthcare sustainability and engaging in environmental advocacy.

A/Prof Katherine Barraclough, Consultant Nephrologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital

Katherine's nephrology training was undertaken at The Alfred Hospital Melbourne, Vancouver General Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the Princess Alexandra Hospital Brisbane. She subsequently completed a PhD through the University of Queensland (2012) undertaking clinical research examining pharmacogenetic, pharmaocokinetic and pharmaocdynamic monitoring of immunosuppressive therapy in adult kidney transplant recipients.

Her primary research interests since then have included individualization of immunosuppression in kidney transplantation, Indigenous Australian renal health and disease and environmental sustainability within the health care system.

She is Chair of the Australia New Zealand Society of Nephrology Green Nephrology Special Interest Group. She is also a member of Doctors for the Environment Australia, sitting on both the Victorian State and National Biodiversity Committees. She joined DEA because of a strong belief in the notion of “healthy planet, healthy people” and because she feels health professionals need to more than simply care for those who are ill - they also have a central role to play in ensuring that healthy, stable environments exist for current and future generations.

Monday 19 November 2018

VCCC Building, Level 7 Lecture Theatres

Light lunch served from 12:30pm

Presentation: 1-2pm

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