Associate Professor Jodi Sherman
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine
Jodi Sherman, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, and faculty in the Yale Center for Climate Change and Health, in the Yale School of Public Health.
Dr. Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher in the emerging field of sustainability in clinical care. Her research interest is in life cycle assessment (LCA) of environmental emissions, human health impacts, and economic impacts of drugs, devices, clinical care pathways, and health systems. Her work seeks to establish sustainability metrics, paired with health outcomes and costs, to help guide clinical decision-making and professional behaviors toward more ecologically sustainable practices to improve the quality, safety and value of clinical care and to protect public health. Dr. Sherman routinely collaborates with environmental engineers, epidemiologists, toxicologists, health economists, health administrators, health professionals, and sustainability professionals.
Jodi collaborates with Matt Eckelman and other LCA experts, and is a world leader in healthcare LCA. Jodi will discuss her landmark LCA of anaesthetic gases and propofol. Although this was a 2012 paper it remains entirely relevant to the practice of environmentally sustainable anaesthesia. Jodi will provide updates and explain why the study provides much information to compare volatile anaesthetics and TIVA.