Doreen Dupont Bio

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Originally from Brooklyn, NY, I am a native of FL since 1990.

In 1975 I received a BS in Communication Arts from Cornell

University. Subsequently I studied Medicine in Guadalajara,

Mexico, in Spanish, and finished my medical school training in

1979 at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Retired in 2007, for many years I practiced as a General

Practitioner, and later on I became licensed as a Civil Surgeon

for the Department of Homeland Security, as well as DEA

licensed to treat Opioid Addiction outpatient. With my

Communications degree I have become a credentialed

broadcast journalist and I did serve as part of the White House

Press pool when President Obama visited the Everglades for

Earth Day 2015. Additionally I was credentialed press at the

most recent UN Climate conference in Spain, COP25. I have

been broadcasting on local AM radio for many many years

now.

As a physician I worked in ERs, had a primary care practice in

OH, and in Florida; I served as a Civil Surgeon for the

Department of Homeland Security and I ran an outpatient

Opioid Detox Center in Sarasota. Throughout my career as a

physician, I have been very politically active, including having

served as a Delegate to the AMA, as well as a serving on the

Board of the Belmont Co. American Cancer Society, and other

boards. At a grassroots level, I served as a 2016 Democratic

National Delegate at the convention in Philadelphia. Since then

I founded #Indivisible CD-16 FL on 1.23.2017. I am an active

board member of the Democratic Environmental Caucus of

Florida, as well as the Environmental Caucus of Sarasota

County Democrats and the Sarasota-Charlotte Democratic

Progressive Caucus. I served on the bylaws committee of the

DECF for six months and during the last round of county

legislative delegation meetings that we had I presented a

proposed bill that I wrote amending a Florida statue to

nine different counties.

I have always been a nature enthusiast, and I am a published

scientist. My publications include The Lancet medical journal,

The AMA newsletter, a multitude of lay healthcare

publications and more recently The Invading Sea and the

Sarasota Herald Tribune. The Sierra Club has been

longstanding passion of mine, and for many years now I have

been a Lifetime Member. In March of 2019, I trained with Al

Gore to be in his Climate Reality Leader Leadership Corps. As a

Climate Reality Leader I give presentations of Al Gore's Climate

Crisis and Solutions. Currently I serve as Chair of Activism of

the Environmental Caucus of Sarasota County Democrats. I co-

host and mentor the Sarasota Students For Climate.

My goal once elected to the Charter Review Board for District 2

is to have an environmental priority established in our county

charter. Maybe a Ready For 100 policy. That and making the

charter work for all citizens, with future development focused

on enriching the lives of the people already living here.

Examples of what I mean as enrichment may be fortifying

infrastructure to meet challenges of our worsening climate;

growth and expansion of shelters and affordable housing for

our service workers and low income citizens; adding shaded

outdoor facilities for recreation; perhaps new infrastructure to

minimize dust pollution. I would like to see access to the arts

expanded for all citizens perhaps with outdoor amphitheaters

similar to what New York City has in their parks. I juxtapose

this to development which would bring in new people at the

expense of those already living here. This is my vision for our

county’s charter. I welcome your ideas.

Doreen Dupont MD
-At Large Director DECF
-Al Gore Trained Climate Reality Leader
-BS Communications Cornell University Agriculture & Life Sciences