346 - EMPOWERING INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGES AND CARDIOVASCULAR CARE

Workshop Description: 1. The environmental footprint of the healthcare system
2. How to reduce waste in the OR and interventional labs: reduce / reuse / recycle
3. Initiatives by hospitals, organizations and industry for healthcare sustainability
4. Questions / Panel discussion

In this interactive session audience members will learn about the planetary health impact of their work environment and be given the skills to reduce this impact.
This workshop is designed for all involved in clinical care, research, education and administration.
Do you want to make your cardiovascular practice more sustainable/green? Do you feel overwhelmed and don’t know where to start?
We challenge you: Take the 3 green things challenge; Three steps to “greenify” your practice – and we give you advice on how to achieve your goals.

Throughout the world, cardiovascular professionals have been successfully implementing strategies to make their practice more sustainable/green. The speakers will describe the most effective strategies some of which are easy and some of which are challenging.

Interactivity and Engagement:

The CCS climate change committeee planned this workshop. Members of this committee include community and academic cardiologists, cardiac surgeon, and trainees from diverse practices and experience across Canada. The committee is composed of representatives from Eastern and Western Canada. Chairs and selected speakers are representative of diversity in gender and generation as well as the perspective from across Canada.

Interactive and Engagement Activities Description: Interactive and Engagement Activities Description

Each speaker will open discussion with a 5 minutes presentation, and the presentations will be followed by a 30 minutes questions / answers / discussion with audience and panel discussion. This will allow for 15 minutes of presentations and 30 minutes of discussion.