Conference Agenda

Session

Session 1.11: Healthcare LCA

Time:

Wednesday, 10/Sept/2025:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Session Chair: Rose Nangah Mankaa, INaB RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Session Chair: Scott McAlister, University of Melbourne, Australia

Presentations

(15 minutes_S)

Application of LCA for Pharmaceuticals: Lessons from a Ten Year Programme in AstraZeneca

Aoife Calnan¹, Hugh Whetherly¹, Donald Reid¹, Michael Collins¹, Simon Aumônier², Andy Whiting³, Chloë Smithers³

¹ERM, United Kingdom; ²Aumônier Consulting, United Kingdom; ³AstraZeneca, United Kingdom

(15 minutes)

An LCA of knee reconstruction surgery

Scott McAlister^1,2, Forbes McGain^1,3, Kasun Kasun Wickramarachchi³

¹University of Melbourne, Australia; ²University of Sydney, Australia; ³Western Health, Melbourne, Australia

(15 minutes)

Environmental impact of a population-based cancer screening programme

Lieselot Boone¹, Jo Dewulf¹, Bente Verhaegen², Janne Dhondt², Hyemin Lee¹, Katrien Vanthomme², Lisa Van Wilder^1,2, Margot Cooreman-Algoed¹, Delphine De Smedt²

¹Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; ²Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

(15 minutes)

A comparative environmental sustainability assessment of different schizophrenia treatment options

Lotte Neckebroeck¹, Lieselot Boone¹, Lisa Van Wilder^1,2, Delphine De Smedt², Wouter De Soete³, Bert Verstappen³, Amr Makady³, Bert Heirman³, Jo Dewulf¹

¹Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; ²Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; ³Johnson&Johnson Innovative Medicine, Beerse, Belgium

(Short Oral + Poster)

The need to make surgical placement practices more circular for dental implants: Results from a Life Cycle Assessment study

Sylvain Maladière¹, Takunda Yeukai Chitaka², Philippe Loubet², Guido Sonnemann², Frédéric Cuisinier^1,3,4

¹Dental faculty, University of Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France; ²University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ISM, UMR 5255, 33400 Talence, France; ³LBN, University of Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France; ⁴CSERD, UHC of Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France

(6 minutes)

Integrating ecodesign at a supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry

Alexander Kaluza, Jannis Schliesing

Sartorius Lab Instruments GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

(Short Oral + Poster)

Scaling Innovation in Scope 3 Reporting: Supplier-Specific Data for Purchased Goods

Aoife Calnan¹, Doyin Oladele¹, Saori Galley¹, Simon Aumônier², John Basbagill³, Hugh Whetherly¹, Jessica Vieira³

¹ERM, UK; ²Aumônier Consulting, UK; ³Takeda, USA

(Short Oral + Poster)

Diagnosing sustainability: A bottom-up organizational life cycle assessment of a maximum-care university hospital in Germany

Lukas Messmann¹, Johannes Zobel¹, Felix Assies¹, Sandra Köhler¹, Alex Cimprich², Steven B. Young², Renate Linné³, Andrea Thorenz¹, Axel Tuma¹, Miriam Köhler¹

¹University of Augsburg, Germany; ²University of Waterloo, Canada; ³University Hospital Augsburg, Germany

(6 minutes)

Life Cycle Assessment of Blood Glucose Measurement: Self-monitoring vs. Continuous Monitoring

Aida Hosseinian, Annika Johansson, Jaakko Karvonen, Ari Nissinen, Atte Pitkänen, Laura Sokka

Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE), Finland