Dr. Valerie Sabol is a clinical professor at the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) and the inaugural director of planetary health in the Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives. Dr. Sabol has served on several Duke committees focused on climate and sustainability initiatives. As the Duke Climate Commitment Education Subcommittee co-chair, she will help each of Duke’s ten schools integrate Duke’s Climate and Sustainability Fluency Framework into their own curricular programming and extracurricular activities. Before serving in this inaugural role, Dr. Sabol served as Interim vice dean for academic affairs, chair for the healthcare in adult populations division, program director of the accelerated BSN (ABSN) program, and director of the adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner major in the MSN program. As a dual, board-certified adult acute care and gerontology nurse practitioner, she currently provides care to older veterans at the Durham VA's Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health (POSH) clinic. Dr. Sabol is a past president of the GAPNA and served on the North Carolina Great 100 Nurses Board of Directors as treasurer.