INTERVIEWS

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.

Dr. Mark Bruce discusses the geographic disproportion of new COVID-19 cases, how the U.S. has most of the cases and he also talks about herd immunity. He is author of the book “Jackie, a Boy, and a Dog: A Warm Cold War Story”

Dr. Joseph Schwab, Chief, Orthopaedic Spine Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses his presentation from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ (AAOS) 2020 meeting titled “Artificial Intelligence in Orthopaedics: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning”

Dr. Scott Patch of InterMed, P.A., Medical Group, in Maine discusses how his practice is using telehealth to manage patient care amid the COVID-19 pandemic with the ease of the eClinicalWorks® Healow platform.