GROUP A (Entry # 1-9)
ENTRY # 1 A 24-hour Waste Audit of a Tertiary Care Hospital’s Neuro ICU and Opportunities for Diversion
Author: Lisette Corbin, BA, Medical Student, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Co-authors: Hannah Hoff, Alison Smith
ENTRY # 2 Asthma Clusters and Underlying Social Determinants in Richmond, Virginia: A Climate Justice Lens
Author: Pranav Jayaraman, BSA, MPH Candidate, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Houston, TX; Co-authors: Ema Helfrich, BS; David Adrazgo, MSW, MPhil; Jinze Li, MSPH
Author: Caellagh Morrissey, Medical Student, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri; Co-authors: Preethi Pugazenthi, Helga Komen, Ryan Guffey, Ivan Kangrga
ENTRY # 4 Ethically rationing healthcare in our new era of pandemics, inequality, and the climate emergency.
Author: James E Black, MD PhD MPH, Faculty-MD, staff physician, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN
Entry #5 Planetary Health in Medical Education: Assessing Existing Knowledge and Identifying Educational Gaps
Author: Shannon Cleary, Medical student, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY; Co-authors: Valentina Sedlacek, Tori Valachovic, Kristen Sportiello, Nick Contento, Sarah Crowe, Kyle Martin, Emily Rosenthal, Camille Ezran, Sandra Jee, Valerie Lou, Kate Weber
ENTRY # 6 The Planetary Health Report Card: A Student-Led Institutional Advocacy Tool
Author: Karly Hampshire, Medical Student, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Co-authors: Hannah Chase, VetMB
ENTRY # 7 Catalyzing Sustainable Healthcare in Medical Education and Practice, A Student Driven Guide
Author: Harris Jamal, MPH, Medical Student at Medical College of Georgia, Medical Students for a Sustainable Future (MS4SF), Athens, GA; Co-authors: Aaron Rosenblum, Savita Potarazu, Pranav Jayaraman, Lawrence Huang, Amanda Lee, Jack Inglis, Caylynn Yao
ENTRY # 8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Emergency Medical Services Ground Transport
Author: Gabriel Forest, MD Candidate, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Co-authors: Caitlin Rublee, MD, MPH. Alexis Puyleart, MD Candidate
Author: Adam Farcus, Graduate student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
GROUP B (Entry # 10-18)
ENTRY # 10 Hospital Gardening Programs to Prevent Healthcare Worker Burnout during Climate-related Crises
Author: Russell K McIntire PhD MPH, Faculty-PhD, Associate Professor, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA; Co-authors: Sharon Larson PhD
ENTRY # 11 The Health Path Project, Examining Adversity in a Climate Destabilized World
Author: Emily Diamond, Psy.D, Professor, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, California; Co-authors: Isaac Smith, MAT, LCSW, FNTP
ENTRY # 12 Exposure to fine particulate pollution association with disruption of glucose and cholesterol levels.
Author: Pablo Knobel, PhD, Post-doctoral Fellow, Post-doctoral Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, New York, NY; Co-authors: Allan Just , Elena Colicino , Maryann McLaughlin , Susan Teitelbaum, Heresh Amini , Maayan Yitshak Sade
ENTRY # 13 Associations between air pollution and temperature and glycated hemoglobin levels in women of child bearing age
Author: Mike Z. He, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New Yor, NY; Co-authors: Itai Kloog, Allan C. Just, Iván Gutiérrez-Avila, Elena Colicino, Martha M. Téllez-Rojo, María Luisa Pizano-Zárate, Marcela Tamayo-Ortiz, Alejandra Cantoral, Diana C. Soria-Contreras, Andrea A. Baccarelli, Robert O. Wright, Maayan Yitshak-Sade
ENTRY # 14 Joint Effects of postnatal air pollution exposure and violence in predicting sleep efficiency in children in the PROGRESS birth cohort
Author: Terry Thompson, DHA, MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow, EMPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Co-authors: Dr. Leon Hsu, ScD, and Dr. Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH
ENTRY # 15 Psychological Challenges and Coping Strategies of Youth Climate Justice Activists
Author: Xiaoxuan Chen, Graduate student, Medical Student, UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, Berkeley, CA/San Francisco, CA
ENTRY # 16 Mothers Stress During COVID-19 Pandemic Effects Child Fear in Kids with Developmental Disabilities
Author: Sheow Yun Sie, Graduate student, Research Coordinator, CUNY Queens College, Flushing, New York; Co-authors: Reena Maharaj, Emily Nelson, Johnny Lopez, Catherine Heitz, and Dr. Yoko Nomura
ENTRY # 17 The Association of Environmental Factors on Acute Pediatric Asthma-Related Healthcare Utilization in a New York City Hospital: A Retrospective Analysis
Author: Hashem E. Zikry, MD, Emergency Medicine Resident, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY; Co-authors: Erin Thanik, MD,MPH, Krishna Vemuri, MPH, Elizabeth Garland, MD, MPH, Nicholas DeFelice, PhD
ENTRY # 18 Prenatal PM2.5 and subcortical volumes in children with neurodevelopmental disorders
Author: Elza Rechtman, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Co-authors: Lindsay M. Alexander, Demetrios M. Papazaharias, Allan Just, Robert Wright, Michael P. Milham, Chris Gennings, Megan K. Horton
Winners:
First Place (Tie)
Karly Hampshire, Medical Student, University of California, San Francis
And
Caellagh Morrissey, Medical Student, Washington University in Saint Louis
Second Place
Lisette Corbin, Medical Student, Emory University
Third Place
Elza Rechtman, PhD, Post-doctoral Fellow, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai