Honoring on-the-ground sustainability work
Health care workers have a unique opportunity to advance health care sustainability and influence policies to protect the health of people in the hospitals and the broader community
The 2024 Stephanie Davis Waste Reduction and Pollution Prevention Award and Scholarship winners were honored at CleanMed Salt Lake City.
The Stephanie Davis Waste Reduction and Pollution Prevention Award and Scholarship
The Stephanie Davis Waste Reduction and Pollution Prevention Award and Scholarship is an enduring tribute to Davis, who worked with Health Care Without Harm at its inception in 1996. Davis was a tireless champion of the movement toward sustainable health care who worked to reduce waste and eliminate the use of harmful chemicals and materials in health care products and processes.
This annual award recognizes health care workers or students who are passionate about waste reduction and pollution prevention in the health care sector and would benefit from the scholarship to further their work.
Stephanie Davis Award and Scholarship recipients will receive:
- Free registration to CleanMed, May 6-8 in Atlanta
- Up to three nights lodging in the CleanMed Atlanta conference hotel
- Reimbursement of travel expenses up to $600 for transportation to and from the conference
Applications for the 2025 award open Dec. 2.
Celebrating our award recipients
- Briana Chang, programs assistant, recognized for her advocacy in building sustainable economic practices at One World Surgery.
- Ivy Lin, general practice resident assistant director, recognized for her climate mitigation efforts in the dental field at the University of Washington School of Dentistry.
- Cameron Lock, waste management lead, recognized for his expert guidance in waste reduction and prevention at Kelowna General Hospital.
- Ashley Politi, RN, recognized for her perseverance and leadership in climate change efforts at El Camini Hospital.
- Louisa Shelby, MSN, RN, IBCL, recognized for her championship for health equity and sustainability at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
- Sophia Barker, Ochsner Health sustainability associate program manager, recognized for waste reduction and responsible disposal education and outreach at Ochsner Health.
- Deanna Benner, women’s health nurse practitioner at Christiana Care, recognized for her advocacy and education for sustainability and climate change within her health care facility.
- Rebecca Brown, RN, recognized for her advocacy and organizational education for waste reduction and prevention at Maine Health and Maine Medical Center.
- Keziah Hubler, clinical pharmacist, recognized for her leadership and perseverance for waste reduction and recycling efforts at Atrium Health.
- Pam Lee, MD, recognized for her waste reduction efforts through replacement of single-use devices and her initiative to lead an organizational waste audit at Harbor-UCLA.
- David Blitzer
- Rebecca Jacobs
- Tram Le
- Alexandra Melnyk
- Laura Tenner
- Vanessa D'Aquila, nursing student at McGill University.
- Rabia de Latour, MD, a gastroenterology and advanced therapeutic endoscopy assistant professor of medicine at NYU School of Medicine and the director of endoscopy at Bellevue Hospital Center.
- Pranav Jayaraman, a master’s student in public health at UTHealth School of Public Health.
- Elise Kirby a MBA and MHA student at Georgia State University and works as an occupational therapist at Shepherd Center.
- Michael Matos, the green initiative liaison for Montefiore Health System.
- Preeti Mehrotra, an infectious diseases physician and hospital epidemiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.
- Kali Sullivan, a student at Tufts University School of Medicine.
- Anne Swearingen, the head of medical operations and effectiveness for ConvaTec and a doctoral student in business administration at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.
- Charlotte ter Haar, a medical resident at University of Illinois Hospital and Health Science System.
- Stephanie Wottrich, a medical student at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
- Jessica Dolan, a staff telemetry nurse at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, N.H.
- Kate Gottlieb, the sustainability program coordinator for Virginia Mason Memorial Hospital.
- Sarah Hsu, a first-year medical student at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School.
- Daniel Mukonde, a Zambian national who’s been working in the health care waste management sector for a decade in the poorest communities of Lusaka, where there are no medical waste management services and inadequate waste disposal facilities.