Meet Dr. Natalia Neparidze
July 09, 2021Information
Dr. Natalia Neparidze discusses her role in the Smilow Multiple Myeloma and Gammopathies Program and her passion for caring for patients with disorders of the bone marrow and plasma cell disorders.
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- 00:00Hello, my name is Natalia
- 00:03and the petting zoo.
- 00:05My hematologist oncologist,
- 00:06and I have served as a assistant professor
- 00:10at Yale Cancer Center since 2012,
- 00:13and I met Director of Research Operations
- 00:16for the multiple myeloma disease team.
- 00:20Uhm, I specialize in hematology.
- 00:22And within hematology I treat disorders
- 00:25of the bone marrow plasma cell
- 00:28disorders such as multiple myeloma,
- 00:31monoclonal gammopathy's,
- 00:32ale amyloidosis,
- 00:33and waldenstrom macroglobulinemia,
- 00:34as well as other classical
- 00:37hematology disorders.
- 00:38I was always interested in medicine since
- 00:41my early education because I thought
- 00:44that becoming a medical doctor would
- 00:48truly enable me to help individuals.
- 00:51And help improve their health problems and
- 00:54within first two years of medical school,
- 00:56I actually became fascinated by
- 00:58hematology and oncology and molecular
- 01:00intricacies of this disorders.
- 01:02And subsequently we did have a family
- 01:05case of lymphoma and I think family
- 01:08cases are really impactful and that
- 01:10really motivated me and influenced me to
- 01:13pursue this profession in hematology.
- 01:15I think it is important for patients
- 01:18to bring in any medical questions.
- 01:21Before the appointment,
- 01:22and although that's not required,
- 01:24it's a good idea to have a number
- 01:26of questions prepared for your
- 01:28physician or the 1st appointment.
- 01:30Especially,
- 01:30I have primarily been involved in therapeutic
- 01:33clinical trials for multiple myeloma.
- 01:34I've been involved in the development
- 01:36of early phase clinical trials,
- 01:38and these include some of the yellow zone
- 01:41investigator initiated clinical trials,
- 01:42as well as our collaboration
- 01:44with National Cancer Institute.
- 01:46Bringing in some of the new novel therapies
- 01:48to our patients with multiple myeloma.
- 01:51So I really worked to enhance our.
- 01:54Research portfolio to make all of the
- 01:57newer therapies available for our patients.
- 01:59I really make it my life's goal to connect
- 02:02with individuals on a personal level
- 02:05and make them really a part of our team.
- 02:08Part of our family and we have an
- 02:11excellent team with our dedicated
- 02:13clinicians research nurses,
- 02:14clinical practice nurses and all of the
- 02:17ancillary stuff that make this work really,
- 02:20absolutely successful and tremendous.