Catharina GIUDICE, MD

FELLOW (2023-2025)

Catharina is an Emergency Physician who is joining the fellowship after completing her residency in Emergency Medicine at Los Angeles County & University of Southern California Residency and medical schooll at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Her medical training has fostered a particular interest in how climate change affects the health of traditionally underserved communities. Her efforts have been aimed at raising awareness of climate change as a health emergency and social justice issue. She has helped develop a climate change elective curriculum for EM residents worldwide, contributed to a literature review article aimed at improving heat stroke management in the ED, and spearheaded multiple publications on managing pathologies affected by climate change.

Prior to her fellowship, Catharina was involved in various local healthcare sustainability initiatives and helped establish the sustainability committee at one of the largest public hospitals in the U.S. She is a member of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and serves as vice chair of the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA) where she founded and leads the Climate Change and Health Subcommittee, focused on increasing awareness of climate change impacts on health among EM residents and medical students.

As a physician in Los Angeles, Catharina witnessed the worst heat waves and wildfires in Southern California's history, which put an already overburdened healthcare system under immense strain during the COVID-19 pandemic. This experience motivated her to explore ways in which healthcare facilities could improve their ability to cope with climate events such as tropical storms, floods, heat waves, and wildfires. During her fellowship, she intends to focus on health systems resiliency and preparedness, with a particular focus on mitigating the health impacts of climate change on communities that are disproportionately affected.

Latoya Storr, MBBS

FELLOW (2023-2024)

Dr. Latoya E. Storr, MBBS, is an Emergency Medicine Specialist and Consultant Physician in the Accident & Emergency Department at the Rand Memorial Hospital on the island of Grand Bahama in the Bahamas.

Dr. Storr completed her medical school and residency training at the University of the West Indies and is an Associate Lecturer for the Emergency Medicine program at the University of the West Indies School of Clinical Medicine & Research in the Bahamas.

Dr. Storr completed the Fellowship in Disaster Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Harvard Medical Research Fellowship in June 2023. Latoya is currently completing a second year of fellowship training focused on climate change and health, with a goal of improving disaster preparedness and response and climate change resilience in the Bahamas and the Caribbean region.

TESS WISKEL, MD

FELLOW (2022-2024)

Tess is an Emergency Physician and a graduate of the Brown University Emergency Medicine Residency Program and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She has centered her career on improving care for at risk populations, both locally and globally. During medical school and residency, she conducted research, education and advocacy focusing on global and women’s health, including developing an accident and emergency HIV testing program in Belize and an educational elective in reproductive health in emergency care. 

Treating the environmental impacts of health on her patients has motivated her current efforts to address the effects of climate change on health, continuing to focus on at risk populations. She is a member of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and a board member for Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania.  She is addressing the health effects of climate change through local advocacy efforts and developing health and climate change educational curricula. She is interested in using research to guide surveillance, preparation, and response to health impacts of climate change, particularly extreme weather events, and to evaluate long term effects including migration of communities.

KIMBERLEY HUMPHREY, MBBS, MPH&TM

FELLOW (2022-2023)

Kimberly is an Emergency Physician and Public Health Medical Consultant for the South Australian Government, leading work in climate change and health focused on mitigation and adaptation for South Australia’s health systems. She is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide and is Chair of the South Australia Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) Committee and Deputy Chair of the DEA National Board. She holds numerous committee roles within the Australasian College For Emergency Medicine (ACEM) including serving on the ACEM Public Health and Disaster Committee since 2013.

Prior to her fellowship, Kimberly completed her medical degree at the University of Adelaide and her residency at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. She holds a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine from James Cook University and is a section editor for the Emergency Medicine Australasia journal. Her interests lie at the intersection of emergency medicine, climate change, and the social determinants of health. During her fellowship she intends to focus on adaptation approaches to climate disasters by health systems and populations, heat health, and the integration of climate and planetary health into university and post graduate medical education.

CALEB DRESSER, MD, MPH

FELLOW (2019-2021)

Caleb was the 2019-2021 Fellow in Climate and Human Health and the inaugural fellow in the program. During fellowship, he worked with the The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE) and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard, while practicing clinically through the Department of Emergency Medicine at BIDMC. He participated in externships with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the Mystic River Watershed Association / Resilient Mystic Collaborative, and CrisisReady.

During fellowship, Caleb’s academic work focused on understanding and communicating the health impacts of climate change, including potential impacts on human migration and climate-related mobility, heat-related illness, hurricanes, wildfires, and electrical outages. He also contributed to the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change US Policy Brief in 2020 and 2021, served as a reviewer for the Journal of Climate Change and Health, and was involved in efforts to develop educational opportunities in climate change and health. He gave more than thirty talks ranging from international lectures to community heat awareness sessions and legislative briefings, and was featured in radio, television, and print media.

Prior to his fellowship, Caleb completed his medical education at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and his residency in Emergency Medicine through the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.  During his fellowship, he completed the Master of Public Health program at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and volunteered at the Boston Hope COVID-19 Field Hospital. Since completing the fellowship, Caleb has moved into a role as Assistant Fellowship Director and has continued his clinical practice, public speaking, and research activities.