The sustainability grand rounds is a platform for educating university staff and health care workers about how they may improve their delivery of sustainable healthcare. It aims to increase the amount and volume of conversation in relation to this topic. This meeting provides an opportunity to share learnings, understand what is being delivered and what can be done but also a space to help each other overcome obstacles.

  • Kathryn Connor

    Neurosurgery NUM

     

    Dr Eugen Tan

    Dr. Eugene Tan is a Mohs surgery practitioner and Dermatologist who is based in New Zealand. Prior to moving to New Zealand, he was a Consultant at The Alfred Hospital Melbourne but he and his partner now live him in a rural town in the heart of central North Island called Taupo. They reside in an acreage sustainably, where they grow their own food and maintain their own beehives. They have not owned a car for 6 years and cycle everywhere, except to this conference.

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  • Sustainability Grand Rounds 08/03/2023

    Sustainability Grand Rounds 08/03/2023

    8 March 2023

    Benn Dunne, Thoracic Surgeon RMH, guest speaker

    Ben Dunne is a Thoracic Surgeon at Royal Melbourne Hospital. He is a member of the RACS Environmental Sustainability in Surgical Practice Working Party, represents RACS at the International Green Surgery Oversight Committee, and is Co-Convenor for the Doctors for the Environment Australia Sustainable Healthcare Special Interest Group.

    He is passionate about transitioning healthcare to renewable energy sources, reducing our dependence on single-use/disposable equipment and reducing low value care.