Meet Dr. Natalia Neparidze

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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.