Alumni Update: Dr. Renee Salas Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Congratulations to Renee Salas, MD (CCLCM ’09), MPH, MS, who was elected to National Academy of Medicine, an honor considered to be among the highest in health and medicine.

A Yerby Fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard Chan School, Dr. Salas practices emergency medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The academy recognized her “[f]or rapidly advancing the medical community’s understanding at the nexus of climate change, health, and health care through highly influential and transformative work, such as with the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and the New England Journal of Medicine.”

Dr. Salas was one of the U.S. Brief Authors of the recently published Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Policy Brief for The United States Of America, with contributions from Cleveland Clinic caregivers Ilyssa O. Gordon, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology; Bud Isaacson, MD, Professor of Medicine and Executive Dean of CCLCM; and Jon Utech, MBA, MPOD, who served as members of the Working Group Reviewers of Brief and/or Executive Summaries for Target Audiences.