Meet Dr. Ranjit Bindra
January 19, 2022Information
Therapeutic Radiologist Dr. Ranjit Bindra discusses his care of pediatric patients with brain tumors, and the development of novel therapeutics for brain tumors.
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- 00:00Hello, my name is Randy Bindra.
- 00:02I'm a professor of therapeutic radiology
- 00:04at the Yale School of Medicine.
- 00:06My main focus is adult and
- 00:07pediatric brain tumors.
- 00:08A lot of our decisions to treat
- 00:10what we treat our based on the
- 00:12training that we've had and some
- 00:14of our own personal experiences.
- 00:15When I was a resident,
- 00:17I was exposed to a number of patients,
- 00:19specifically small children
- 00:20that had brain tumors.
- 00:22And it was those experiences that
- 00:23shaped my interest in pursuing novel
- 00:26treatment options for those patients.
- 00:28I think it's important for patients to
- 00:30know that when they come to see us,
- 00:32that they're really treated like family.
- 00:34We're available 24/7 really
- 00:35working all the time as a team to
- 00:37make sure that they get better
- 00:39and get to where they need to be.
- 00:41We often recommend that a patient
- 00:43bring family members who can
- 00:44take notes 'cause it can be very
- 00:46difficult for that first console,
- 00:47but we're often able to spend a
- 00:49fair amount of time going through
- 00:51all the details with the patient,
- 00:52even if they can only come alone.
- 00:54Our laboratory is focus on developing
- 00:56novel therapeutics for brain tumors,
- 00:57and in particular are very interested in
- 00:59translating those therapeutics directly.
- 01:01Into the clinic.
- 01:02For the patients that we see here at Yale.
- 01:04Our laboratory and clinical
- 01:05practice are very,
- 01:06very much intertwined in that we
- 01:08love to translate work from the
- 01:10bench to the bedside and from
- 01:12the bedside to the bench.
- 01:13I'm very,
- 01:13very excited about what lies ahead
- 01:15for brain tumor research and
- 01:16novel therapeutics development.
- 01:18We now understand so many things
- 01:19that we didn't know before and one of
- 01:22the cost of making great strides in
- 01:24the survival for patients with brain tumors.