Meet Dr. Anne Chiang

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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.