Please join Climate Health Now's August Monthly Meeting:
We will offer a heat-related illnesses primer with Dr Joshua Weil an Emergency Medicine physician in Santa Rosa followed by Bonnie Schneider a national TV meteorologist who will guide us on how to talk about heat with the media during heat waves and connect it to climate change so as to make it more personally-relevant for Californians and boost social will for climate action.
Hope to see you there!
More below about our speakers:
Bonnie Schneider is a national television meteorologist, appearing on MSNBC/NBC News and Yahoo! Finance. She created the platform Weather & Wellness©, successfully launching its original video content focusing on climate change and health for New York-based Newsday’s digital site. Bonnie’s provided on-camera insight and expertise on everything from hurricanes to snowstorms for CNN, HLN, Bloomberg TV, and The Weather Channel. Her second book, Taking the Heat: How Climate Change is Affecting Your Mind, Body & Spirit, and What You Can Do About It, (Simon & Schuster) is available wherever books are sold. Bonnie has over 260k followers on her social platforms
Joshua B. Weil, MD, FACEP Dr. Weil is a practicing Emergency Physician at Kaiser Hospital in Santa Rosa. He grew up in Northern California and completed his B.A. degree at the University of California, San Diego, then received his medical degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Medical Center before taking a position at Kaiser in 1998. His leadership experience includes Department Chief for over 11 years, Chair of the Chiefs of Emergency Medicine for Northern California, and Assistant Physician-in-Chief for Hospital Operations from 2011 until 2019. Responding to domestic and international disasters has taken him to Sri Lanka following the tsunami, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, Haiti to respond to the earthquake, and the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan. In 2017 his experience in disasters and the effects of climate change converged in the early morning of Oct. 9th when the Tubbs fire raced through Santa Rosa, his wife and daughter barely escaping the fire that destroyed their home while Dr. Weil was on shift in the Emergency Department. In the hours that followed Dr. Weil was Incident Commander while the team led the successful evacuation of the hospital.