Nitin S. Damle, MD MS MACP at TEDxURI 2021
Human Health and Climate Change: Case Studies
Throughout the years, Dr. Damle has treated countless patients suffering from the health consequences of climate change. These illnesses, ranging from tick-borne illness and allergies to asthma and waterborne illness, are not uncommon or unique but have been occurring with increasing frequency over the past several years and disproportionately affect particular communities.
Nitin S. Damle, MD MS MACP
Dr. Damle is the past president of the American College of Physicians (the largest specialty organization in the U.S.), Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Founding Partner of South County Internal Medicine in Wakefield Rhode Island. He was a co-author on a seminal position paper of the American College of Physicians in 2015 and has for the past five years has been speaking to both professional and lay audiences around the world on the Human Health Effects of Climate Change. He is founding member of the Medical Societies Consortium on Climate Change and sits on the Board of Advisers. He has advocated for mitigation of factors leading to climate change and their adverse effects on health to the House of Representatives and the Senate and locally with the Rhode Island Department of Health.