Mark Mitchell M.D., MPH, FACPM is Associate Professor of Climate Change, Energy, & Environmental Health Equity at George Mason University, where he works remotely from his home in Hartford, CT. Dr. Mitchell is Director of State Affairs for the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. He also co-chairs the National Medical Association’s Council on Environmental Health, and the Connecticut Equity and Environmental Justice Advisory Council (CEEJAC).

As a preventive medicine physician, Dr. Mitchell has spent over twenty years working in the public health sector, including as Director of the Hartford Health Department, and twenty years working in environmental justice. He founded the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice in 1998, establishing chapters in Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven during his 13 year tenure.

Dr. Mitchell earned his bachelors and medical degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and his Masters of Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University

Kirsten Ek, MD, FACP is a board-certified internal medicine physician and hospitalist. She is Assistant Professor of Medicine, and course director within the UCONN School of Medicine, including teaching curricular topics on environmental health, climate and health, health equity and advocacy. She is a member of her hospital’s Sustainability Committee and advisor to the campus Sustainability Interest Group. She graduated from residency at UCONN Health and holds a certificate in Climate Change and Health from Yale.

Max is a medical student at the University of Connecticut with a passionate dedication to public health and environmental justice. She studied Physiology & Neurobiology, with a concentration in Neuroscience, at the University of Connecticut where she developed a particular interest in neural and psychological impacts of climate change. Beyond her studies, Max enjoys exploring the beauty of the outdoors with friends, family, and her dog. She helped form the Connecticut Health Professionals for Climate Action group with a shared vision of achieving environmental health equity for communities now, and for those to come.

Maggie is a medical student at the University of Connecticut with a long interest in the impact of the environment on human health and wellness. She studied Anthropology at the University of Chicago, where she developed a particular passion for medical anthropology focused on interactions between people and the planet. After graduating, she served as a member of City Year, working with middle school students in the math classroom. Her hobbies include running and spending time with family and friends. She joined CT Healthcare Professionals for Climate Action to help preserve the planet so that communities now and in the future can live and learn in good health.

Sanjiv Godse MD is a board certified pediatrician currently in fellowship training to be a Pediatric Pulmonologist. He is passionate about pediatric lung health and in particular asthma. His clinical interests include the intersection of climate and health particularly how climate change will affect asthma. His current research efforts include studying how parents of children with asthma percieve climate change and related health effects. He plans to continue this work in his career and bring climate change to the bedside. Outside of work he enjoys hiking, biking, drawing, and playing tennis.