Health Care Sustainability: Transforming Clinical Practice in the Face of Climate Change
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Wynne Armand, MD practices primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Chelsea HealthCare Center, where she provides comprehensive preventive care, chronic disease management and urgent care to adult patients in a diverse, urban setting.
She is a Distinguished Physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at MGH, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and contributing editor at Harvard Health Publications.
Dr. Armand co-directs Primary Care Office Insite (PCOI), a resource hub that supports high-quality, evidence-based delivery of primary care across Mass General Brigham through knowledge-sharing, multi-disciplinary collaboration, and integration of local information.
Dr. Armand is an associate director at the Mass General Center for the Environment and Health, whose mission is to integrate sustainability into hospital operations, education, and research, and to advocate for policies that support a healthy environment for everyone.
She received her medical degree from University of California San Francisco (UCSF), completed her internal medicine residency at UCSF in a primary care program based at San Francisco General Hospital, and is board certified in Internal Medicine.
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Chelsea HealthCare Center
151 Everett Ave.
Chelsea, MA 02150
Phone: 617-889-8580
Phone: 781-221-2355
Fax: 617-889-8579
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