Karly Hampshire is an internal medicine resident at Columbia pursuing a career at the intersection of medical education, climate change, and health. As a medical student at UCSF, Karly founded the Planetary Health Report Card Initiative, a student-led, metric-based initiative to evaluate and inspire planetary health engagement at health professional schools worldwide, now active in over 180 health professional schools in 10 disciplines in 21 countries. She was also awarded the Emerging Physician Leader Award from Health Care without Harm for her Interview without Harm Initiative, an advocacy, research, and educational campaign urging decisionmakers to prioritize sustainability and equity in evolving decisions about the future of medical training interviews post-COVID. She currently is in the inaugural cohort of the GME Certificate of Distinction in Climate Change, Sustainability and Health at Columbia.

James Irlam is a Senior Lecturer in the Primary Health Care Directorate (Dept. of Family, Community and Emergency Care) and the Division of Environmental Health (School of Public Health) at the UCT Faculty of Health Sciences.
James is the founder of the Education for Sustainable Healthcare Group within the Southern African Association of Health Educationalists (SAAHE). He is also an executive member of the Climate, Energy and Health Special Interest Group of the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA).
James holds an MPhil in Epidemiology and an MSc in Climate Change & Development from UCT. His PhD on Education about Planetary Health and Sustainable Healthcare in South African health professions education was conferred in April 2025.

Dr. Mishra is an Associate Professor in the department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. She is the founder and director of the NEATLabs and also the co-director of the University of California wide Climate Resilience Initiative (https://www.climateresilience.online/).
Dr. Mishra has research expertise in the study of climate trauma and resilience as well as scalable digital mental health interventions and precision psychiatry. Her research has been widely featured in popular media including features in CNN, TIME magazine, the BBC, NPR, Washington Post, World Economic forum, Scientific American among others, and has also been cited by the National Climate Assessment as first empirical evidence of climate disaster impacts on mental health and well-being.

Dr. Sean Ochsenbein, M.D., M.B.A. is a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician in Johnson City, Tennessee and currently serves as one of the Chief Medical Officers for Ballad Health. Following medical school at Quillen College of Medicine, Dr. Ochsenbein completed an emergency medicine residency at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Dr. Ochsenbein performed valor acts, sacrificing his own life to save another. For this, Dr. Ochsenbein was awarded the Public Safety Medal of Valor by President Donald J. Trump in 2018. Continuing his life of services in his community Dr. Ochsenbein is a commissioner on the Johnson City Regional Planning Commission where he serves as Vice-Chairmen. Additionally, Dr. Ochsenbein is a class IV graduate of Leadership Tennessee Next program and Clinical Associate Professor for ETSU Quillen College of Medicine. In his free time, as an Eagle Scout, Dr. Ochsenbein loves the outdoors, hiking in the smoky mountains, CrossFit workouts with his wife Jen and daughter Winnie.

Cecilia Sorensen, MD is the Director of the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia Irving Medical Center and Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. As a physician-investigator at the nexus of climate change and human health, translating research into policy, clinical action, and education to build resilience in vulnerable communities is the focus of her research.

Julie Scott Taylor, MD, MSc, is a board-certified academic family physician with expertise in international medical education and maternal-child health. Dr. Taylor has been on the faculty at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Rhode Island since 2001. Currently an Adjunct Professor at Brown, she previously served as the Director of Predoctoral Education in Family Medicine and as the Director of Clinical Curriculum for the medical school. From 2014 to 2023, she was in various senior leadership roles at American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) where she oversaw academic and student affairs across two campuses and 23 clinical sites in the US and UK. She is currently the inaugural Associate Dean for Medical Education at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in New Hampshire. Dr. Taylor holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Harvard College, an MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and a Master of Science in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Boston University. She has been the Principal Investigator for multiple grants and has authored more than 135 publications. She is also Past President of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, a worldwide physician organization.

Arianne Teherani is Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. She is Founding Co-Director of the University of California, Center for Climate Health and Equity and Director for Program Evaluation and Education Continuous Quality Improvement for the School of Medicine. Her work identifies and dismantles practices perpetuating educational disparities, informing conversations, research agendas, and policies globally. Dr. Teherani examines interventions aimed at creating equity during medical training and studies exemplars of success. She spearheads research that focuses on education as a core solution to the climate crisis. She examines outcomes of training health professionals on climate-health impacts through community-engaged health professions education, education for healthcare decarbonization, and sustainable practices in health professions training. Arianne's research has been featured in venues such as National Public Radio, KTVU, Market Watch, and the Huffington Post