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sustainable healthcare, life cycle assessment, industrial ecology, systems engineering, healthcare, sustainability
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My research utilizes life cycle assessment and principles of industrial ecology to analyze and improve the environmental performance of infrastructure systems, hospital design, healthcare practice, and medical technologies. This new field of study (sustainable healthcare or clinical sustainability) introduces medical providers to data-driven, environmentally preferable solutions, while developing and improving sustainability metrics for measuring human and environmental health.
As a 2014–2015 Fulbright–Nehru fellow, I analyzed the materials used, the waste generated, and the environmental footprint of cataract surgery at Aravind Eye Care System in southern India. My team found that Aravind’s approach generated just 5% of the carbon emissions as the same surgery done in the United Kingdom. This study demonstrated that reusable surgical materials and careful process design can produce excellent patient outcomes, while reducing costs and the environmental footprint. Our team is testing interventions designed to reduce the footprint and cost of cataract care in the United States, while maintaining excellent outcomes. My lab is also conducting research focused on radiology, inpatient units, and surgical waste.
I hold additional faculty appointments with NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where I teach courses on operations management and environmental sustainability, and with NYU Tandon School of Engineering, in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering.
KEYWORDS
sustainable healthcare, life cycle assessment, industrial ecology, systems engineering, healthcare, sustainability
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SUMMARY
My research utilizes life cycle assessment and principles of industrial ecology to analyze and improve the environmental performance of infrastructure systems, hospital design, healthcare practice, and medical technologies. This new field of study (sustainable healthcare or clinical sustainability) introduces medical providers to data-driven, environmentally preferable solutions, while developing and improving sustainability metrics for measuring human and environmental health.
As a 2014–2015 Fulbright–Nehru fellow, I analyzed the materials used, the waste generated, and the environmental footprint of cataract surgery at Aravind Eye Care System in southern India. My team found that Aravind’s approach generated just 5% of the carbon emissions as the same surgery done in the United Kingdom. This study demonstrated that reusable surgical materials and careful process design can produce excellent patient outcomes, while reducing costs and the environmental footprint. Our team is testing interventions designed to reduce the footprint and cost of cataract care in the United States, while maintaining excellent outcomes. My lab is also conducting research focused on radiology, inpatient units, and surgical waste.
I hold additional faculty appointments with NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where I teach courses on operations management and environmental sustainability, and with NYU Tandon School of Engineering, in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering.
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Cordelia Kwon, Lernik Essayei, Michael Spencer, Tom Etheridge,Rengaraj Venkatesh, Natrajan Vengadesan,Cassandra L. Thiel
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH (2024): e42140-e42140
Tzu An Wang,Kaiyi Wang, Nathan Alhalel, Parsia Vazirnia,Shadera Slatter, Gunnar Mattson,Amy E. Becker,Ching-Ying Oon,Shan Wang,William Karlon, Scott V. Pasternak,Cassandra L. Thiel,
Gastroenterologyno. 5 (2024): S-260
Katie E Lichter,Kiley Charbonneau, Jacqueline R Lewy,Julie R Bloom,Rachel Shenker,Ali Sabbagh,Junzo Chino,Anna Rodrigues, Jason Hearn,Surbhi Grover,Ren-Dih Sheu,Alon Witztum,
The Lancet Oncologyno. 6 (2024): 790-801
Journal of Surgical Research (2024): 112-119
Francesca Farlie,Giles A. Palmer,Jacques Cohen, Charles Calcagni, Anna Gorbunova, James Lawford Davies, Carol Loscher, Roisin O'Raghallaigh, Timothy Sharp, Daniela Smale, Pernilla Sorme,Cassandra L. Thiel,
REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINEno. 1 (2024): 103600-103600
GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY (2023): S147-S147
Brooke Sherry, Samuel Lee,Maria De Los Angeles Ramos Cadena, Gregory Laynor,Sheel R. Patel,Maxine dellaBadia Simon,Eric G. Romanowski,Sarah E. Hochman,Joel S. Schuman,Christina Prescott,Cassandra L. Thiel
OPHTHALMOLOGYno. 7 (2023): 702-714
Jonathan E. Slutzman, Hannah Bockius,Ilyssa O. Gordon,Hannah C. Greene,Sarah Hsu, Yiming Huang, Michelle H. Lam,Timothy Roberts,Cassandra L. Thiel
WASTE MANAGEMENT & RESEARCHno. 1 (2023): 3-17
Cassandra L. Thiel,Natasha Mehta, Cory Sean Sejo,Lubna Qureshi,Meagan Moyer, Vincent Valentino,Jason Saleh
npj Digital Medicineno. 1 (2023): 1-8
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#Papers: 86
#Citation: 1884
H-Index: 23
G-Index: 43
Sociability: 6
Diversity: 0
Activity: 2
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