Dr. Shapley-Quinn is Executive Director for the Carolina Advocates for Climate, Health, and Equity (CACHE). She is a family physician and a graduate of UNC’s medical school and family medicine residency. She has worked in primary care for a number of years and served as Medical Director of Alamance County Health Department for many years. Kathleen has been active in advocacy around food security for decades and served as board member for an agency providing advocacy and education for children of incarcerated parents. Her commitment to climate work grows out of both a sense of justice (cultivated early in her Detroit upbringing) as well as a passion for the beauty of our planet and the people who inhabit it.

Moderator: Leigh Alon, Johns Hopkins University

Panelists:

1. Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD. Josiah Charles Trent Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, School of Medicine, Duke University. Professor of History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University. Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Duke University

2. Rachel Niehuus, MD, PhD. Fellow, Surgical Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

3. Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill

4. E. Berryhill McCarty, MD, MA. Resident, Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh.

Book: Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State

Critics:

1. Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, Professor, Department of Social Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill

2. Doug MacKay, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy, UNC Chapel Hill

3. Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD, MA, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, UNC Chapel Hill

Reproductive Healthcare After Dobbs: Doctoring in an Age of Medical Mistrust

Mara Buchbinder, PhD is Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill

introduced by Seth Holmes, MD, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

This panel will discuss ongoing efforts by trainees, at this conference and beyond, to understand challenges in the social sciences, humanities, and public health MD/PhD training pathway and to formalize mentorship and resources for applicants and trainees.

Precarious Parenthood: Poverty, Race and Adoption Politics in the United States

Mical Raz, MD, PhD, MSHP is the Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Health and Policy; Professor of History; and Professor of Clinical Medicine in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester.

She is introduced by Raúl Necochea López, MSc, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

How Medicine Becomes Trash: Healthcare as Ecological Crisis

Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, MA is the William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

Introduced by Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD, Duke University

Presented by Sue Estroff, PhD and Barry Saunders, MD, PhD