Celebrate Our Heroes During Nurses Week
Topics:
Breast Cancer & the Environment
Greening hospital settings
Preparing for Wildfires
Children’s Special Vulnerabilities to Environmental Risks
Understanding the 6 classes of Chemicals.
Speakers
Meet Our Speakers
Barbara Sattler
RN, DrPH, FAAN
Dr. Sattler is a professor at the University of San Francisco and an international leader in environmental health and nursing. She is a founding and active member of both California Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice, as well as the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. While at the University of Maryland, she directed the Maryland hospitals for Healthy Environments, a 10-year statewide initiative that helped hospitals develop sustainable policies and practice to achieve the triple bottom line of employee health, patient health, and ecological health. She also helped to bring local, sustainable, and healthy foods to Maryland’s hospitals, supported by grants from the US Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Sattler has worked in communities facing environmental health risks associated with lead-based paint, pesticides, superfund sites, and risks associated with gas and oil extraction, including fracking. She has been an advisor to the US EPA’s Office of Child Health Protection and the National Library of Medicine for informational needs of health professionals on environmental health. Dr. Sattler has been the recipient of NIEHS, HUD, and EPA grants, as well as a host of private foundations. She is also an author of Environmental Health and Nursing Practice and a host of peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Sattler is a Registered Nurse with an MPH and DrPH from the John Hopkins School of Public Health. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Janet Nudelman
MPP
Janet Nudelman, MA, Sr. Director of Program & Public Policy at Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP) draws on over 35 years of experience working in the social change arena as a political organizer and lobbyist on women’s health issues.
Under her leadership, BCPP’s advocacy efforts are playing an important role in making breast cancer prevention a priority in statehouses and the halls of congress and have resulted in the passage of 19 local, state and federal laws creating the nation’s first statewide biomonitoring program to measure the pollution in people; enacting a federal ban on phthalates in kids toys; securing passage of California bans on 24 of the worst-of-the-worst chemicals from cosmetics as well as banning the entire class of PFAS chemicals from firefighting foam, food packaging, textiles and cosmetics; and, championing passage of California legislation that requires the disclosure of the ingredients in professional salon products, cleaning products and fragrance and flavor ingredients in cosmetic products.
Janet also co-founded and directs BCPP’s 20-year-old Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, which has raised consumer awareness of – and demand for – toxic-free beauty and personal care products and sparked the growth of the clean cosmetics industry, estimated to reach $22 billion by 2024. She has a BA in political science from the Evergreen State College and an MA in public policy from George Washington University.
Lisa Hartmayer
NP, MSN
Lisa Hartmayer is a nurse practitioner who cares for patients while they’re in the hospital to have kidney or pancreas transplant surgery. She also cares for these patients if they need to be treated in the hospital for an infection or for rejection of their transplanted organ.
Hartmayer earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing at the University of Connecticut. At UCSF, she earned a master’s degree in nursing with a focus on environmental and occupational health. She is a certified clinical transplant nurse.
A flautist and tenor saxophonist, Hartmayer has a passion for jazz and funk.
Karen Duderstadt
RN, PhD, CPHP, FAAN
Karen Duderstadt is a retired Health Sciences Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), School of Nursing and Director of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) Program.
Her clinical practice focused on the care of infants, children, and adolescents living in low-income families. Her doctoral work focused on the access to care for children and improved health outcomes for those children with access to care in public health insurance programs.
Dr. Duderstadt has published on a wide variety of child health policy topics including children’s health and children’s environmental health issues. She has also published a text on Pediatric Physical Examination which is used nationally in NP programs.
Ariana Spentzos
Ph.D
Ariana Spentzos, PhD is a Science and Policy Associate at the Green Science Policy Institute with a current focus on researching PFAS in building materials. Ariana works toward increasing product transparency and finding safer alternatives with manufacturers. She is a member of ILFI’s Material Health TAG.
Ariana graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and went on to earn her PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. During her PhD, she also worked as a graduate fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy tracking the incidence and impacts of oil refinery fires.
In her free time, Ariana enjoys cycling and spending time with her husband and two cats.
Nurses Week Schedule
May 6th – 10th, 2024
12 pm – 1 pm
May 6th
Breast Cancer and the Environment: Opportunities for Primary Prevention
with Janet Nudelman, MPP
Breast Cancer Preventon Partners
May 7th
Greening Our Hospital Settings
with Lisa Hartmayer, RN, NP, MSN
UCSF
May 8th
Preparing for Wildfire Season: Keeping our Families, Patients, and Communities Safe
with Barbara Sattler, RN, DrPH, FAAN
USF
May 9th
Children’s Special Vulnerabilities to Environmental Exposures
with Karen Duderstadt, RN, PhD, CPHP, FAAN
UCSF
May 10th
6 Classes of Chemicals
Arana Spentzos, PhD
Green Science Policy Institute
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