Meet the team
Evie Rothwell - Director
Yusra Shammoon- Education and Quality Improvement Lead
Gillian Lever - Communications Lead
Evie is an Anaesthetic Trainee working in Bristol with a longstanding interest in Sustainability. Initially she became involved in sustainability in healthcare with the group 'Green at Barts Health' and worked on numerous SusQI projects from re-usable PPE to waste. As she sees it, this is the most important challenge facing our generatio
Evie is an Anaesthetic Trainee working in Bristol with a longstanding interest in Sustainability. Initially she became involved in sustainability in healthcare with the group 'Green at Barts Health' and worked on numerous SusQI projects from re-usable PPE to waste. As she sees it, this is the most important challenge facing our generation of doctors is the climate crisis and collective action is the way to tackle it.
Gillian Lever - Communications Lead
Yusra Shammoon- Education and Quality Improvement Lead
Gillian Lever - Communications Lead
An Anaesthetics Trainee in Yorkshire and The Humber, Gillian has seen first hand the impact healthcare has on the environment. She is passionate that we need to make urgent, significant changes now to have a chance of avoiding irreversible damage and believes that the way forward is through connecting with each other to share learning and inspire action.
Yusra Shammoon- Education and Quality Improvement Lead
Yusra Shammoon- Education and Quality Improvement Lead
Yusra Shammoon- Education and Quality Improvement Lead
Yusra became interested in sustainable healthcare during her foundation training - the more she learnt about the scale of climate change's impact on health, the more surprised she became that it wasn't already a mainstay in healthcare training! She is currently in Internal Medical Training in Birmingham. She's really keen on promoting edu
Yusra became interested in sustainable healthcare during her foundation training - the more she learnt about the scale of climate change's impact on health, the more surprised she became that it wasn't already a mainstay in healthcare training! She is currently in Internal Medical Training in Birmingham. She's really keen on promoting education and advocacy around planetary health and sustainable healthcare.
Maia Patrick-Smith- Events and Conference Lead
Maia Patrick-Smith- Events and Conference Lead
Yusra Shammoon- Education and Quality Improvement Lead
Maia is a Community Sexual and Reproductive Health Trainee working in London. She feels strongly that we need to reduce the environmental impact of healthcare and that by bringing people together from across the healthcare spectrum we can make more effective change. She is excited to showcase important voices in many of our events.
Katie O'Byrne - Treasurer
Maia Patrick-Smith- Events and Conference Lead
Katie O'Byrne - Treasurer
Katie is an Internal Medicine Trainee working in London. She is passionate about waste reduction in healthcare, and has worked on QIPs in waste disposal and sustainable medicines choices in her hospitals. She believes that we all have to lead the way in advocating for greener change, and education and shared knowledge and resources are part of the way to do this!