Meet Dr. Anne Chiang
January 25, 2022Meet Dr. Anne Chiang
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Dr. Anne Chiang discusses why she chose to focus on the care of patients with lung cancers and how the Smilow Cancer Hospital Network has evolved over the last ten years.
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- 00:00Hi, my name is Anne Chang.
- 00:03I'm an associate professor
- 00:04here at Yale Cancer Center.
- 00:06I also serve as deputy Chief Medical
- 00:08Officer and Chief Integration
- 00:10officer for Smilow Cancer Hospital.
- 00:12I treat lung cancer patients,
- 00:14both small cell lung cancer and
- 00:16non small cell lung cancer.
- 00:19I chose to go into lung cancer because I
- 00:22think it is tremendously exciting right now,
- 00:25both in understanding of the
- 00:27biology and in the treatments
- 00:28that we can offer to patients.
- 00:30Now, I've been here for for 10
- 00:33years at Yale and at when we
- 00:35started we did not have a network.
- 00:38We were only able to treat
- 00:40patients in New Haven.
- 00:42Now, 10 years later we have a robust
- 00:44smilow cancer hospital network.
- 00:46We're able to treat patients where they live.
- 00:49We're able to offer them access
- 00:51to clinical trials and the
- 00:53most cutting edge technologies.
- 00:55Again close to home,
- 00:57close to their support networks,
- 00:59and my role has really been in
- 01:02developing this network and helping
- 01:04to offer quality care and not only
- 01:07quality care but wrap around services so.
- 01:11Social work,
- 01:11nutrition and I think in our next level
- 01:15the the access to our top notch surgeons,
- 01:18radiation oncologists,
- 01:19survivorship programs all along
- 01:21the continuum of care to our
- 01:24patients throughout the state.
- 01:25I just think it's so important to
- 01:28be able to offer our services to
- 01:31all of our patients within the state
- 01:34who are from diverse backgrounds,
- 01:36and I think that it's important.
- 01:39It's a. It's certainly a mission.
- 01:42For Yale Cancer Center now and we
- 01:44hope to continue that going forward.