As the COVID-19 cases picked up across Connecticut, Nicole (Rabidou) Bundy, MD, a rheumatologist in Ohio, contacted friend Ursula Brewster, MD, associate professor of medicine (nephrology) to see how she could help.
Bundy, a former Yale School of Medicine (YSM) chief resident from 2002-2003 wanted to support her old community.
“Nicole called me and let me know that she had 1000 KN95 masks to donate to Yale,” explained Brewster. “She asked that they be distributed to wherever they would do the most good: the City of New Haven or at the hospital.”
As the COVID-19 pandemic grew, personal protective equipment (PPE) became in short supply. The kindness of Bundy’s donation did not lose significance on Brewster.
“We talk about the Yale family, and we very much are that, a family,” said Brewster. “Nicole trained with a lot of us here. It means a lot to us that she cared so much about her former community to make this generous donation of protective gear.”