The sustainability grand rounds is a platform for educating university staff and health care workers about how they may improve their delivery of sustainable healthcare. It aims to increase the amount and volume of conversation in relation to this topic. This meeting provides an opportunity to share learnings, understand what is being delivered and what can be done but also a space to help each other overcome obstacles.

  • Siska Hester - Manager Climate Change Program Delivery, Climate Health Victoria

    100% renewables in the Victorian health system

    Siska is an environmental engineer with over 20 years of experience working on sustainability issues. With experience in both the private and public sector, Siska has worked within a range of industries including transport, energy, water and government to deliver sustainability projects. Siska’s breadth of experience covers many facets of sustainability and environmental management including decarbonisation and climate adaptation, waste management, pollution prevention and water efficiency.

    Siska began working with the Department of Health in mid-2023 and was heavily involved in the creation of Climate Health Victoria unit and now leads the Program Delivery team. Siska prides herself on her ability to deliver practical projects with tangible outcomes.

    Urvi Thanekar - Research Assistant, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

    Exploring opportunities to reduce scope 3 emissions in renewably powered health services

    Urvi is a PhD candidate within the Institute of Health Transformation at Deakin University partnering with Barwon Health focusing on reducing their Scope 3 emissions using systems dynamics and economic analysis. Urvi also works with the Climate Catch Lab at the University of Melbourne on projects that intersect climate change, healthcare systems and systems transformation. Urvi is a clinically trained dentist with a master's in health and human services management and has been a part of the Victorian Covid -19 clinical surge workforce. Urvi has clinical and research experience in the field of health promotion and health literacy in the Indo-Pacific region.

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  • Health Independence Program (HIP) Environmental Sustainability Working Party; Sustainability in ICU

    Health Independence Program (HIP) Environmental Sustainability Working Party; Sustainability in ICU

    Guest Speakers:

    Donna Staples de Boer – Speech Pathologist, Health Independence Program, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne

    Donna is an experienced Speech Pathologist working with adults in neurological rehabilitation. Her current role is at the Community Rehabilitation Centre at St George’s Hospitals, part of St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, where she has been working since 2023.

    Donna is a member of the Health Independence Program (HIP) Environmental Sustainability Working Party, implementing multiple initiatives aimed to reduce carbon footprint, waste, and unnecessary spend of the teams she works across. Her presentation will describe initiatives as well as outline the role of leadership prioritisation and local area champions in implementing change.

    Kylie Feely, Equipment Nurse Sunshine Intensive Care, Western Health. 

    Kylie Feely completed her bachelor degree in 2000 then her Critical Care Graduate certificate in 2004. In 2008, Kylie became a valued employee with Western Health Intensive Care. In 2021, Kylie was appointed the equipment nurse specialist for Sunshine ICU. 

    Kylie is the lead of the Sunshine ICU Sustainability team, implementing multiple changes aimed at reducing waste, our carbon footprint and money. Kylie tested and rolled out sustainable linen in Sunshine ICU, something that has now been rolled out organisation wide. Kylie has presented this work at multiple conferences including the ANZICS quality conference 2023, ACCCN AEM 2024, Critical Care medicine conference 2024, and the greening the healthcare sector forum 2024. 

    Kylie is the MacHSR fellow for 2025. Her project is to significantly reduce the amount of unopened expired products that are wasted to landfill each year through a quasi-experimental interrupted time series research project.