About me
Dr. Moench is a former adjunct faculty member of the University of Utah Honors College, teaching the public health consequences of environmental degradation. He was the former chairman, Dept. of Anesthesia, Holy Cross Hospital and has been in private practice anesthesia at Holy Cross Hospital, LDS Hospital, and Intermountain Medical Center since 1981. Over the last 20 years he has given hundreds of community and academic lectures and power point presentations, written over 145 Op Eds for newspapers throughout the country, lectured at the U. of Utah Medical School on numerous topics, and has helped communities in Utah, Texas, Pennsylvania, California, Alaska, Nevada and British Columbia organize opposition to polluting industries. He has been an expert witness and written court briefs for pollution lawsuits, has met with top EPA officials, and was nominated by the Obama Administration at a Washington, DC conference as one of 50 finalists to receive the award “Champion of Change” for his work on the climate crisis.
He has appeared on national television, on MSNBC and Fox Business Channel, to discuss the relationship between neonatal deaths and pollution from fracking. He has written two books that address environmental contamination and public health, Death by Corporation, the killing of humankind in the age of Monster Corporations, and The Great Brain Robbery- Why Women Have Become Smarter Than Men/Science with an Attitude.
