Healthcare Sustainability Champions

Dr. Shieh champions sustainability in her leadership roles within Stanford Health Care. She is a co-professor of the Stanford Health Consulting Group, a course that analyzes and solves major strategic and operational challenges in health care delivery and innovation through interdisciplinary team projects. Each quarter, the SHCG matches a team of students to one sustainability project at Stanford Health Care. This interactive model allows student teams to build sustainability in a clinical setting.

Dr. Shieh is currently the medical director of Quality Improvement (QI) programs for Graduate Medical Education and the program director of Stanford’s Resident Safety Council, where she advises a sustainability sub-committee called “Greening the Clinics”. The committee champions resident-led sustainability initiatives. The department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Radiation Oncology, and Dermatology have led waste audits that have resulted in practice changing interventions leading to a decline in procedural waste.

Together with UCSF, they have created a “Six Minute Waste Audit” toolkit containing documents necessary to conduct a brachytherapy waste audit, which they have submitted to the American Brachytherapy Society meeting with the intent of distributing this toolkit to radiation oncology programs nationwide.

Dr. Shieh launched the Stanford Health Care Sustainability Seed Grant 2022 with Dr. David Svec and Dr. Kari Nadeu to fund research on climate action and climate and health.