Meet Dr. Dan Boffa
January 26, 2022Information
Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Dr. Dan Boffa, discusses his care of patients with esophageal and lung cancers, and the team approach involved in achieving excellent results.
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- 00:00Hello, my name is Dan Boffa.
- 00:03I'm a thoracic surgeon and I am the
- 00:05chief of thoracic surgery at Yale,
- 00:08New Haven Hospital.
- 00:09I specialize in cancer of the
- 00:11esophagus and of the lung.
- 00:13I really try to break things
- 00:15down in a way that is very
- 00:17simple and understandable to me,
- 00:19which my patients generally appreciate
- 00:22because you're overwhelmed with
- 00:24so much information and things
- 00:26that are not familiar to you.
- 00:28I will be honest and I'm going to
- 00:31give you the straight answers because
- 00:33I think we together have to come
- 00:36up with some some big decisions
- 00:38that are important and I think you
- 00:41need to know what we're up against.
- 00:44We have a a broad research focus
- 00:46in our group.
- 00:47We concentrate on trying to identify
- 00:50the best treatments for cancers
- 00:52of the lung and the esophagus.
- 00:54We also try to identify patterns of
- 00:56care that lead to the most appropriate.
- 00:59Environments taking care of
- 01:01the more complicated cases,
- 01:03and we also do research to make sure
- 01:05that care is distributed fairly across
- 01:08all people in the United States,
- 01:10people have often ask me how
- 01:13we get the results that we do,
- 01:15and I've often considered myself an
- 01:17average surgeon who gets excellent results,
- 01:20and I'd much rather be that
- 01:22than the other way around,
- 01:24and the way that we do that is
- 01:27with a great team, my team.
- 01:30Spends a tremendous amount of
- 01:31time and effort and energy in
- 01:33building expertise so that they
- 01:35can take care of patients.
- 01:37And this is not a one person show.
- 01:40We do it together and every day
- 01:42our goal is to get better so
- 01:45that tomorrow we take better care
- 01:47of patients than we did today.