This conference addresses how the warming climate is changing heat-related illness patterns and health. The incidence of heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and burn injury are rising, and warmer temperatures also increase the risk for hospitalizations related to other chronic conditions, including underlying heart disease, asthma, COPD, and kidney problems. Many commonly prescribed medications also increase the risk for adverse health outcomes when coupled with warmer temperatures. Warmer temperatures are also associated with climate related anxiety and depression, and may also increase violence, crime, and suicide. This conference will help you protect health, particularly for vulnerable communities and populations, through knowledge of evaluation and management of heat-related illness and will also help you advocate for policies that protect individuals, families, and communities from rising temperatures.
7:30 Check-In, Exhibits, and Breakfast (provided for in-person participants)
8:00 Overview Samantha Ahdoot, MD, FAAP
8:10 Heat in the Southeast: Updates from the 2023 National Climate Assessment Jeremy Hoffman, PhD
9:00 Heat Considerations for Vulnerable Populations The Elderly Malinda Whitlow, DNP, RN, FNP-BC Children Tracy Kelly, DNP, APRN, CPNP-P/AC
10:00 Break and Exhibits
10:15 Heat Considerations for At-Risk Populations Athletes Kelly Martin, M.Ed Outdoor Workers Christianne Queiroz, LL.M Previously Redlined Communities Theodore Lim, PhD
11:15 Building Community Heat Resilience Resilient Together: Charlottesville and Albemarle Gabe Dayley, MA and Andrea Trimble, MLA, MS
12:15 Lunch (provided for in-person-participants) and Exhibits
1:15 An overview of the Impacts of Heat on Mental Health Joshua Wortzel, MD
2:15 Heat Protection Policy Ghazala F. Hashmi, PhD
3:00 Closing Remarks & Evaluate
3:15 Reception (provided for in-person participants)
