INTERVIEWS

Dr. Lisa C. Richardson, MD, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC), discusses what cancer patients and their caregivers need to know to stay well while staying at home during the COVID-19 crisis and what to do should anyone with cancer or caring for someone with cancer contract COVID-19.

Dr. David Spetzler, President and Chief Scientific Officer at Caris Life Sciences® discusses MI Exome™ a next-generation sequencing-based assay analyzing the whole exome of 22,000 DNA genes. This new assay will be offered as part of the Caris Molecular Intelligence® suite of comprehensive profiling services that are designed to detect and characterize the molecular features of cancer to guide more precise individualized treatment decisions for patients.

Dr. Dan Carlin, founder, and CEO of WorldClinic discusses the services provided by WorldClinic, how they are helping save lives during COVID-19, and how he remotely saved a patient whose heart had stopped using his iPhone.

Dr. Eunice Wang, M.D. at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, talks about acute myeloid leukemia (AML) an aggressive form of blood cancer that presents with many different subtypes.  She also discusses why genetic testing for mutations is critical in making treatment decisions amid COVID-19 and beyond.

Rakhee Langer, Vice President, healow telehealth solutions at eClinicalWorks®, a leader in healthcare IT solutions, discusses the healow telehealth platform features and capabilities that are contributing to better decision making and patient care.  She talks about the importance of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing, and beyond.  Healow logged more than 10 million minutes in the first 10 days of April 2020.

Texas-based surgeon Dr. Chuck Page discusses how bad the COVID-19 pandemic could get and how some people are still ignoring safety precautions.  He offers tips to survive the coronavirus.  He is also the author of the book “A Spoonful of Courage for the Sick and Suffering: Transforming Your Greatest Challenges Into Your Biggest Blessings” 

Dr. Alicia Bazzano, Chief Health Officer for Special Olympics, discusses the resources they have added to their website in response to the COVID-19 pandemic providing critical information to their athletes, caregivers, and loved ones of individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID).  She also talks about the “School of Strength” a fitness campaign in partnership with WWE to help athletes stay active.

Dr. Dan O’Brien discusses the rising trend in telemedicine, particularly now with COVID-19.

Dr. Randy Schatzman, CEO at Bolt Biotherapeutics, Inc., discusses how Bolt is developing drugs to turn cold tumors “hot” to achieve an anti-tumoral activity in unresponsive patients.  They are ahead of their competitors as they have already started the Phase 1 study of BDC-1001 monotherapy for patients with HER2-expressed solid tumors.  He discusses how they are using the Boltbody™ Immune-Stimulating Antibody Conjugates (ISAC) approach to combat cancer and how this technology is shaping the treatment of cancers.

Rob Wiley, discusses Formstack, a secure productivity platform that digitizes information, automates workflows and reforms processes and how the value of these digital solutions is coming to light during the COVID-19 pandemic.