Tucson Medical News Discussion Group
Our group meets in person most months to discuss issues of the day pertaining to public health and safety. An early project was to set up the “Medical News Discussion” on facebook.com. Early posts are still available—please comment and share—except that FB (now Meta) censored some of them. Members of the group previously served on the Public Health Committee of the Pima County (Arizona) Medical Society until PCMS eliminated the committee as being unnecessary.
Members include Holly Gruhl, R.N., Jane Orient, M.D., and James Gruhl, Ph.D. Dr. Orient practices general internal medicine and is president of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. Dr. Gruhl earned a doctorate in systems science at MIT, which included environmental impacts of electric power generation. He researched and taught at MIT and retired from there. In 1969-1970, he helped write the Clean Air Act, which set up the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and served on the EPA Science Advisory Board from 1976 until 1992. From 1976 until 1985, he was a principal investigator for Harvard School of Public Health projects on health effects of energy production; health effects of air pollution; heavy metals pollution; combustion products effects on health; and climate effects on world food production, population, species diversity, and extinctions. In 1995-1996 he chaired the Clinton Committee on the Kyoto Climate Treaty and studies models of climate and CO2 and effects on vegetation and global temperature.
Meeting Notes:
https://www.ddponline.org/2023/01/03/mednews-january-2023/