Health Professionals for Clean Air Stories | American Lung Association

Robert J. Blount, M.D., MAS, Access to clean air is critical. As a pulmonologist I am motivated by helping to alleviate my patients’ suffering from asthma, COPD, lung cancer, pneumonia, and other lung diseases that can be caused by and exacerbated by dirty air.
Ying Li, MD, Climate change harms health.
Randolph J. Lipchik, MD, MPH, We must not underestimate the need for clean air. As a physician, I see how the climate and air quality affects my patients with lung disease, every day.
John S. Yordy, M.D., Ph.D., , Preserve and protect our clean air. We all depend upon the air we breathe for life.
Erika Maria Moseson, MD, MA, Climate change is (quite literally) sickening. As a lung and ICU doctor, my patients’ health is threatened by unhealthy air and climate change, and now COVID-19.
Christine A. Hamilton, DHSc, RRT, I strongly urge a united front on climate change. Climate change poses serious threats to the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.
Carol Ziegler, DNP, NP-C, My patients bear a greater burden from the health harms of climate change and air pollution. Climate change and air pollution disproportionately impact my patients.