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Maura Brown1, Julia Hyde Schoen1, Jonathan Gross1

  • 1From the Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (M.B.); Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC (J.H.S.); Department of Radiology, Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex (J.G.); Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn (R.A.O.); Department of Medical Imaging, University Medical Imaging Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (K.H.); and Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network (UHN), University of Toronto, 1 PMB-298, 585 University Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 2N2 (K.H.).

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Radiologists can lead sustainable change in healthcare by addressing climate change impacts and reducing medical imaging

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