Sustainability champions wanted for CleanMed
Bring your energy and experience to CleanMed 2026 from May 12-14 in St. Louis and connect with like-minded industry peers. Together, we can unite our collective power to build health care systems that are resilient, equitable, and ready for the challenges ahead.
What you'll experience:
- 40+ sessions including case studies, posters, and interactive workshops, showcasing over 40 health professional speakers that will share practical solutions for advancing climate-smart health care:
- Sustainability smackdown: The great CleanMed debate
- Communicating sustainability through values and practice
- Reprocessing & beyond: Contracting strategies to advance sustainable purchasing
- Empowering clinicians for environmental justice and community activism
- Interactive workshops that will provide collaboration opportunities unlike any other health care sustainability conference:
- New in 2026 Action lab: Shape health professional strategies to reduce clinical plastics
- Regional roundtable exchange: Spark new partnerships
- Pathways towards building community climate resilience
- Beyond disposal: Collaborative strategies to reduce pharmaceutical waste
- Executive leadership insights on how to embed sustainability into core strategies shared at our keynote panel, facilitated by Dr. Eugene Washington, CEO of Duke University Health System:
- David Entwistle, president and CEO of Stanford Health Care
- Dr. Jeffrey Gold, president of University of Nebraska
- Carol Gomes, CEO and COO of Stony Brook University Hospital
- Dr. William T. Mallon, senior director of enterprise strategy and innovation at the Association of American Medical Colleges
- Actionable tools and proven frameworks from our 20-minute case study clinics that you can implement immediately to advance your organizational sustainability goals:
- Reducing anesthetic gases: A clinician-led emissions win
- Making sustainability accessible: Creating and using a dashboard
- All-hazards health system resilience assessment: A case study with NYC Health & Hospitals
- Linking spend to carbon: Smarter supply choices
- Sorting out hospital waste: Inventory for a zero waste plan
Can’t attend in person? We are pleased to offer a virtual option with live streaming of all plenary sessions and select breakout sessions through our online event platform.
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Practice Greenhealth is the health care sector’s go-to source for information, tools, data, resources, and expert technical support on sustainability initiatives that help hospitals and health systems meet their health, financial, and community goals.
Who We Are
Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,500 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include hospitals, health systems, community health organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the health care value chain.