Meet Dr. Ranjit Bindra

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• 00:00Hello, my name is Randy Bindra.
• 00:02I'm a professor of therapeutic radiology
• 00:04at the Yale School of Medicine.
• 00:06My main focus is adult and
• 00:07pediatric brain tumors.
• 00:08A lot of our decisions to treat
• 00:10what we treat our based on the
• 00:12training that we've had and some
• 00:14of our own personal experiences.
• 00:15When I was a resident,
• 00:17I was exposed to a number of patients,
• 00:19specifically small children
• 00:20that had brain tumors.
• 00:22And it was those experiences that
• 00:23shaped my interest in pursuing novel
• 00:26treatment options for those patients.
• 00:28I think it's important for patients to
• 00:30know that when they come to see us,
• 00:32that they're really treated like family.
• 00:34We're available 24/7 really
• 00:35working all the time as a team to
• 00:37make sure that they get better
• 00:39and get to where they need to be.
• 00:41We often recommend that a patient
• 00:43bring family members who can
• 00:44take notes 'cause it can be very
• 00:46difficult for that first console,
• 00:47but we're often able to spend a
• 00:49fair amount of time going through
• 00:51all the details with the patient,
• 00:52even if they can only come alone.
• 00:54Our laboratory is focus on developing
• 00:56novel therapeutics for brain tumors,
• 00:57and in particular are very interested in
• 00:59translating those therapeutics directly.
• 01:01Into the clinic.
• 01:02For the patients that we see here at Yale.
• 01:04Our laboratory and clinical
• 01:05practice are very,
• 01:06very much intertwined in that we
• 01:08love to translate work from the
• 01:10bench to the bedside and from
• 01:12the bedside to the bench.
• 01:13I'm very,
• 01:13very excited about what lies ahead
• 01:15for brain tumor research and
• 01:16novel therapeutics development.
• 01:18We now understand so many things
• 01:19that we didn't know before and one of
• 01:22the cost of making great strides in
• 01:24the survival for patients with brain tumors.