Our guest today is the Medical director of Sacramento’s Emergency Medical Services Agency with decades of disaster response experience around the globe which has given him first hand experience in the health effects of climate change - please welcome Hernando Garzon - MD.
His response to multiple climate related disasters has given him firsthand experience in the health effects of climate change.
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More on our guest: Hernando Garzon, MD is an Emergency Medicine physician practicing in Northern California since 1992. In addition to his clinical practice Dr. Garzon has extensive experience in disaster response and Global Health. He is currently serving as an emergency response consultant to the California Department of Public Health for the SARS-CoV-2 response, and as the acting Medical Director for the California EMS Authority. Dr. Garzon has also held multiple leadership roles in health care and has served on several boards for humanitarian relief organizations. He also serves as the Medical Director for the Sacramento Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMS).
Dr. Garzon’s disaster response experience includes 14 domestic disaster response deployments with the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue system, and 19 international disaster responses with multiple humanitarian relief organizations. This work has included multiple domestic hurricane responses, a famine treatment hospital in eastern Kenya, a post-cyclone response to Burma, and more.
His response to multiple climate related disasters has given him firsthand experience in the health effects of climate change.
Hernando served as the Director for Kaiser Permanente's Global Health Program from inception in 2008 until 2018, and in this role helped develop capacity building volunteer clinical programs in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Vietnam, Cambodia, Honduras, Colombia and other countries.
Hernando teaches frequently on the health effects of climate change, disaster medical care, and humanitarian medical response. He has served on federal and California state panels to define Crisis Medical Care guidelines and Pandemic Flu care guidelines, and has been a consultant for the US. Department of State on medical care for weapons of mass destruction, and for International Medical Corps. He is a member of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.
Hernando Garzon, MD
Medical Director, Sacramento EMS
California Department of Public Health, Emergency Response
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