Slide from Chest 2026 talk on Wildfires and Critical Care Challenges I have the honor of speaking at Chest 2026 at a session entitled Climate Change as a Mass Casualty…
Breath of Promise- MKE Fresh Air Collective collaboration with True Skool and funded by CHEST grant Happy October! This month, I will be setting off to the American College of…
Photo by Madison Oren - Unsplash In the first season of the Air Health Our Health podcast and website, my hometown of Portland, OR was rocked by widespread use of…
Dr Simeonova (center) and Dr Scales (right) at ATS Welcome to Season Seven of the Air Health Our Health podcast- it is hard to believe that we are coming up…
My asthma patients can tell you there are times of year that they dread- worsened shortness of breath, need for medications, and often dramatically increased healthcare bills from ER visits…
As a lung doctor, I am very familiar with how humans breathe. We generate a significant amount of carbon dioxide in our bodies and need to exhale it. When we…
Throughout human history, the burning of crops has been part of agriculture. However, we live in a world with multiple sources of pollution, have longer lifespans, and as population density…
Those of us who work in healthcare are often confronted with how climate change affects human health. It is also important for us to recognize that healthcare makes up 18%…
Happy holidays! This post is being released shortly after Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the kickoff of the holiday shopping season. I’m sure, like many of you, the gift-giving…
All parents find themselves worrying about their children's present health and what the future holds. I am no different. There are many facts of climate change I have seen in…