Get to know a Caregiver: Anne Chiang, MD, PhD

June 03, 2020

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Anne Chiang, Associate Professor (Medical Oncology); Chief Network Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Smilow Cancer Network, discusses what her life is like now, post-COVID-19.

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00:08Well, what's your life like
00:09now if you don't mind sharing a
00:11little bit about what what you grew up
00:14to be like what's what's your family?
00:16Like, Lifelike, and uh.
00:18Sure, uhm well I have.
00:21I have Twins and they just, um,
00:24graduated from high school last year.
00:27They were both in gap years and my
00:31daughter is in Germany helping right now,
00:34helping working with children and young
00:38adults that are refugees in Germany and
00:42or with kids with some with some issues.
00:46And my son and she's still been right now.
00:50My son is was doing a gap here in
00:53South Africa where he was working
00:56with kids in the townships and
00:59providing care for them and.
01:02He actually had to come back home
01:04after the country lock down or
01:06break prior to the lock down,
01:08and so he's been at home with my husband and
01:11me and and that's that's been really nice.
01:14I mean, I, I think it's less interesting
01:17for him to be with his parents at this time,
01:20but it's it's really nice to see
01:23how he's grown up and to be able
01:25to share and have
01:26conversations and dinner with the both
01:28of them. Yeah, go ahead appreciating
01:30that quality time, yeah?
01:32And is there anything here that
01:34is there anything that you wish
01:36your patience knew about you, um,
01:38or you know what makes your job?
01:40What are you so passionate about right now?
01:42Those are two kind of parting
01:44questions. I was
01:45thinking about asking. Uhm, you know.
01:49I think that most of my patients know, uhm?
01:54That Uh, that I'm passionate about
01:58what I do and and I'm passionate
02:01about communicating with them. I do.
02:05I do have the the honor and privilege of
02:09working with the quality committees in asco,
02:13which is our professional society and
02:16have a nice have a good look at at the
02:21really thoughtful conversations between
02:23caregivers and including doctors, nurses.
02:26I know pharmacists and lab folks
02:29and all everybody who provides care
02:31across not only our system but
02:33but across the USA tonight really.
02:39Would love for them to know that
02:41you know people are really thinking
02:44of them and especially during this
02:47time and trying to make really safe
02:50choices to help protect patients
02:52until allowed them to get care.
02:56It's. It's some, it's a really
02:58fantastic team as you know that
03:00we have it's Milo and I want to
03:03make sure that they know that.
03:07For me in particular,
03:09I think being uhm being you know
03:12Asian and my husband is German
03:15and so we have a cross cultural
03:18family and extended network.
03:20I just want folks to know that
03:24you know the care that we give is
03:28really meant to be inclusive of
03:31all folks and we want to we feel
03:34that having a diverse team and and.
03:38Being able to meet the needs of diverse
03:41communities is really important too, so.
03:45Thank you so much for
03:46taking the time to do this.
03:48I really appreciate it and I know,
03:50um, all of our patients are really
03:52going to appreciate getting to know,
03:54you know, thank you.
03:56It's it's a little interesting experience,
03:57but, uh, I'd love to be able
03:59to ask my patients the same way.
04:02I often have great conversations,
04:03but I think that one of the
04:05and I know you feel this way.
04:07One of the greatest.
04:10Privileges of what we do is
04:12to be able to have that.
04:14Peak in connection to to so many
04:17wonderful such a privilege. It's
04:19a real privilege. So thanks
04:21for doing this and we really
04:23appreciate getting to know you.