Make Your Plans Now to Join DOCMS & WCMS For A Virtual Event!
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | 6:30pm – 7:30pm Via Zoom
“The Changing Climate Affects YOUR Patients”
Speakers:
Kathleen Shapley – Quinn, MD | Executive Director/Board Chair, Carolina Advocates for Climate, Health and Equity
Howard Maunus, MD, AGAF | Gastroenterologist and Healthcare Sustainability Advocate
About the Speakers:
Kathleen Shapley – Quinn, MD: Dr. Shapley-Quinn is a family physician and a graduate of UNC’s medical school and family medicine residency. She has worked in primary care for a number of years and served as Medical Director of
Alamance County Health Department for many years. Kathleen has been active in advocacy around food security for decades and served as board member for an agency providing advocacy and education for children of incarcerated parents. Her commitment to climate work grows out of both a sense of justice (cultivated early in her Detroit upbringing) as well as a passion for the beauty of our planet and the people who inhabit it. She currently serves as Executive Director for CACHE.
Howard Maunus, MD, AGAF: Dr. Howard Maunus is a physician with over three decades of specialized experience in gastroenterology. He earned a BS in Biology from Temple University (1983) and
an MD from Jefferson Medical College (1987), followed by an Internal Medicine residency (1990) and Gastroenterology fellowship (1993) at the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Maunus maintained a successful private gastroenterology practice from 1993-2022 and renewed his Board Certification in Gastroenterology in 2024.
Beyond clinical practice, Dr. Maunus focuses on the intersection of healthcare and climate change. He serves on the Climate Smart Healthcare and Education subcommittees of Carolina Advocates for Climate, Health, and Equity and on the Education subcommittee of the Columbia University’s Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education. He is also a Fellow of the prestigious Climate Health Organizing Fellowship at Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Alliance.
Dr. Maunus’s career exemplifies the evolution of medical practice toward approaches that recognize the connection between planetary health and human wellbeing.
Don’t miss out on this virtual event! Register now!
Questions? Contact Ashley Newton, [email protected].