/PRNewswire/ Noel Pugh, JD/PhD, Women s Health Executive, Dr. Santosh Pandipati, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician, and Kamal Gogineni, Digital Health.
juanma hache/Getty Images (NEW YORK) Dr. Santosh Pandipati has seen up close the impact of climate change on his personal and professional life. "I've taken care of patients who've had to flee wildfires," the San Francisco-based physician told ABC News. "The same wildfires that led to the terrible air quality that my family and I had to breathe." "We understand that excess heat exposure, air pollution, particulate air pollution, especially, has adverse impacts on pregnancy outcomes and not just pregnancy outcomes," said Pandipati, who is a maternal fetal medicine specialist in the Bay Area and has been researching the connections between climate change and health for the past five years. Studies have found that high ambient temperature can increase the risk of preterm births and that ambient air pollution can decrease birth weight in some populations. When speaking with new and expectant mothers, Pandipati said he leans on the studies' fin
(NEW YORK) Dr. Santosh Pandipati has seen up close the impact of climate change on his personal and professional life. “I've taken care of patients who've had to flee wildfires,” the San Francisco-based physician told ABC News. “The same wildfires that led to the terrible air quality that my family and I had to