Dr. Plastic Picker

Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health Interview
2021-01-31 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health. Interview as the Climate Champion for the Consortium for the month of January.

KevinMD PODCAST Interview
2020-12-26 13:30 - 14:30
Yes I’m putting it out there for the earth. I have had three or four articles published on KevinMD. In general the resposne from people I know has been positive and some of the non-environmental pieces have been well received. But KevinMD is such a popular site that I believe there are trolls on it. I’ve been mocked on his comments section mutliple times. But with a 500,000 readership, it’s an audience that is worth it to try to reach. Anyway, Kevin Pho himself I heard is a very nice person. He invited me to be interviewed for a Podcast. By then, my hair should be beautiful with my new apple-cider vinegar conditioner rinse project and switching over to Hi-Bar Shampoo (which is bar shampoo and no palm oil and no plastic packaging) from Sustainable Republic Shop (my friend and favorite on-line zero-waste shop). I have a lot of lectures and talks coming up, so I couldn’t do the interview right away. It is scheduled for the day after Christmas, prime family time. Yes, that is how important the planet is to me.

UCSD Rady's Resident Conference Lecture
2020-12-10 12:30 - 13:30
Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Sally Kaufman.

UC Berkeley Premed Honor Society - MD Panel
2020-12-06 10:00 - 12:00
This event is geared towards connecting undergraduate pre-health students with physicians and health care professionals, including healthcare administrative professionals. It will be similar to a Q&A panel, but there will be other professionals to answer questions.
The general plan is as follows, but may change as we will try to be flexible on the day of the panel:
10am to 10:10am — introductions, casual conversation
10:10am — official panel begins (Berkeley time!)
10:10am – 10:50am — general Q&A session/panel
10:50am – 11:50am — breakout groups; smaller groups where students can get to know you better and ask more specific questions; we will be rotating physicians/panelists every 15 minutes!
11:50am- 12:00pm — end of panel, final remarks, exchange contact info (if you are interested!)

AAP-CA3 Climate Change and Health Intern and General Committee Meeting
2020-11-24 18:30 - 19:30
From our Premed Intern Hakim,
“I hope everything is going well for all of you. We’ve scheduled a meeting for the committee on Tuesday 11/24. There will be a 30-minute intern meeting from 6:30 to 7 pm, and then the whole committee will get together from 7 to 7:30 pm. I’ve attached the link to this email, and I will send an email reminder a day before. We hope you can all make it!

Thanks!
Hakim (Premed Intern) – send an email to drplasticpicker@gmail.com if you need the meeting link again or if you know Hakim in real life email him!

Topic: AAP-3 Climate Change and Health Committee
Time: Nov 24, 2020 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Journal Club: Plant Based Diets in Children
2020-11-18 12:30 - 14:30
For our next virtual journal club, we will be collaborating with the AAP Climate Change and Health Committee to host a discussion on plant-based diets in children. This wonderful topic was proposed by the incomparable Vi Nguyen aka drplasticpicker. We will be joined by Dr. Angie Nieson, who practices Culinary Medicine (how cool is that!) in San Diego, as well as our very own Pediatric GI specialist, Dr. Dana Patton-Ku. Our amazing AAP Climate Change and Health Premed Intern, Ashley Teo, will also be helping to organize the journal club/panel discussion.
Pediatric Journal Club – Plant Based Diets in Children with Dr. Angie Nieson and Dr. Dana Patton-Ku (2 hours CME credit)
Sponsored by the AAP Climate Change and Health Committee
Location: Online via Microsoft Teams (Invite to be sent out later)
Date: Wednesday November 18, 2020
Time: 12:30-2:30pm
Articles:

Renda M, Fischer P. Vegetarian Diets in Children and Adolescents. Pediatrics in Review 2009.
Mascarenhas M. Pediatric Anti-Inflammatory Diet. Pediatric Annals 2019.
Leite et al. Healthy low nitrogen footprint diets. Global Food Security 2020.

Please RSVP by replying to me (Jennifer.C.Chen@kp.org) so that I can send you an invite on Microsoft Teams later.
Remember this is a completely optional event. But will be a fun and exciting opportunity to meet and engage with fellow planetary health advocates!

UCSD PRIME HEQ MS1 Lecture
2020-11-05 15:00 - 17:00
Invited to give a lecture on environmental health at UCSD School of Medicine PRIME HEQ Program. Speaking as the founder of San Diego Physicians for Clean Air and advocacy for pediatric health and clean air. Will prepare and deliver talk with our Student Co-Founder.

Guest Speaker at University of Virginia School of Pharmacy, Sustainability Healthcare Project
2020-10-27 12:00 - 13:00
Sustainability Healthcare Project invites Dr. Plastic Picker to speak about my journey! I am so honored! They want to hear about my eco-avatar!

AAP-CA3 Climate Change and Health Committee Meeting
2020-07-28 18:30 - 19:30
We are having our first AAP-CA3 Climate Change & Health Committee Meeting. 630-7pm will be for our interns, committee chairs and those helping with the Youth Art’s Council and Exhibition. 7-730pm will be for the general committee. If you are interested, please email me at drplasticpicker@gmail and I can forward you the Zoom invite.

Public Health Sign On Letter Regarding Oil & Gas Drilling: Letter to CalGEM (California Geologic Energy Management Division)
2020-05-19 08:00 - 2020-06-30 17:00
Please see the letter to California Geologic Energy Management Division, and consider signing as an individual California Public Health Care Worker. “We the undersigned ask CalGEM to take preventive action to protect public health given the substantial and growing body of epidemiologic and toxicologic evidence about the negative health effects of oil and gas drilling.” The letter is addressed to CalGEM, the agency that oversees oil and gas, and outlines the health impacts of oil and gas drilling on fence line communities and also the health impacts of climate change, the downstream result of oil and gas extraction. Please feel free to click on the link to sign the letter

5 to 12-Year-olds: Dr. Plastic Picker is Calling for Your Trash Art!
2020-03-17 08:00 - 2020-05-31 17:00
Hello Junior Dr. Plastic Pickers! It is not safe right now to do litter picking outside, but at home you likely have a lot of “clean plastic trash.” Hopefully you have a glue gun! Under the supervision of an adult, Dr. Plastic Picker is interested in your Trash Art! Our blog is looking for submissions of 2-3 images of your Trash Art that you can make while being quarantined at home. Sent a picture and our blog will create a collage. When the quaratining is over, we can try to submit it as a group submission to the Del Mar Fair. Looking for at least 10 entries! Please submit via Instagram message or drplasticpicker@gmail.com.

Monarch and Pollinator Act of 2019: HELP SIGN NWF PETITION
2020-02-06 08:00 - 2020-03-31 17:00
Dr. Plastic Picker also started circulating a National Wildlife Foundation petition for the Monarch and Pollinator Highwat Act of 2019 that would require “the Secretary of Transportation to establish a program to provide grants to carry out activities to benefit pollinators on roadsides and highway rights-of-way, including the planting and seeding of native, locally-appropriate grasses and wildflowers, including milkweed, and for other purposes.” https://support.nwfactionfund.org/page/15908/donate/1?en_chan=fb&locale=en-US&ea.tracking.id=FBK_NWFAF&en_ref=31542314&fbclid=IwAR1439hxtZeN97rxY62IdIb5mtL1qPW3XwKSUdwtrs6SRC0VbnwqNANgDz8 This make a lot of sense, and that petition is at 9123/10000 signatures. Our goal is to help NWF get another 100 signatures. Let me know here as a comment if you signed, and are interested in our futher Monarch Butterfly Projects. We are going to try to collect milkweed seeds and distribute, and then have a group planting at a friend’s house.

Sunday, Feb 2: Imperial Beach Pier Cleaning with drplasticpicker and I Love A Clean San Diego
2020-02-02 07:30 - 09:00 | Imperial Beach Pier
Hello drplasticpicker friends and my office friends in real life! We are having our 2nd Office Beach Cleaning at Imperial Beach Pier. There will be simple but filling breakfast afterwards. Children welcome and I can sign off on community service hours as well. Let me know at the office or email me at drplasticpicker@gmail.com if you are planning on coming. We can accommodate last minute folks but I need a rough head count for food and also if we have more than 25, I Love A Clean San Diego will need to let the San Diego Police now. Just bring yourselves. I’ll have supplies from ILCSD and waiver forms on site. Sunscreen, hat and reusable water bottle please! Children must have an adult with them.

Donate Your Old Prescription Glasses and Sunglasses
2019-12-10 08:00 - 2019-12-21 17:00
Please drop off any old prescription glasses or sunglasses. Our blog is collecting them and will send them to Lions Club of California and Nevada to be donated.
