TAMEST 2026 Annual Conference Speakers

TAMEST 2026 Annual Conference speakers and sessions will explore real-world, scalable climate solutions and collaborative problem-solving for sustainability in medicine, engineering, science and technology. Learn more about the 2026 annual conference speakers below.

2026 Annual Conference Speakers

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Andrew S. Bowman, Ph.D.

Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine

The Ohio State University

As an expert in viral infectious diseases, veterinary public health and epidemiology, Andrew S. Bowman, Ph.D., oversees a research team that focuses on zoonotic infectious diseases. He leads applied field research projects investigating the epidemiology of influenza in animal populations and transmission across the animal-human interface. Some of his team’s most recent work has investigated highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in cattle. Before his return to academia, Dr. Bowman was a practicing veterinarian focused on food animal production.

Elizabeth Matsui, M.D.

Professor of Population Health and Pediatrics

Associate Dean for Faculty Academic Affairs

Director, Center for Health and Environment: Education and Research

Dell Medical School

The University of Texas at Austin

Elizabeth Matsui, M.D., is a Professor of Population Health and Pediatrics, Associate Dean for Faculty Academic Affairs and Director of the Center for Health and Environment: Education and Research at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a pediatric allergist-immunologist and epidemiologist and a leading international expert on environmental exposures and their effects on asthma and other allergic conditions. She received her undergraduate degree in molecular biology and her medical degree from Vanderbilt University. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco in 1996. She joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2003 and was promoted to Professor in 2015 before joining the faculty at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin in 2018.

Marcia McNutt, Ph.D. (NAS)

President

National Academy of Sciences

Marcia McNutt, Ph.D., is a geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she was editor-in-chief of Science journals. Dr. McNutt was director of the U.S. Geological Survey from 2009 to 2013, during which time USGS responded to a number of major disasters, including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. For her work to help contain that spill, Dr. McNutt was awarded the U.S. Coast Guard’s Meritorious Service Medal.

Dr. McNutt received a B.A. in physics from Colorado College and her Ph.D. in Earth sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the International Association of Geodesy. Dr. McNutt is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, UK, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. In 1998, Dr. McNutt was awarded the AGU’s Macelwane Medal for research accomplishments by a young scientist, and she received the Maurice Ewing Medal in 2007 for her contributions to deep-sea exploration.

Rawand Rasheed, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Helix Earth

Rawand Rasheed, Ph.D., is the CEO and Co-Founder of Helix Earth, a startup developing breakthrough HVAC retrofit solutions that cut air conditioning energy use while improving indoor health in buildings. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and has more than five years of experience at NASA, first as a graduate research fellow and then as a Life Support Systems Engineer where he developed a patented no-touch distillation system for spacecraft water recovery. Under his leadership, Helix Earth has raised $7.3 million in venture funding and $2.3 million in non-dilutive support from agencies such as NSF and DOE. The company has received recognition on the national stage, with Dr. Rasheed himself named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy, ACHR 40 Under 40 and the ASME Mechanical Engineering Magazine Watch List in 2025.

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