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尼娜沙
Global Head of Multiple Myeloma Clinical Development and Strategy, AstraZeneca
As a hematologist, your patients trust you with their lives.
我看到他们最脆弱的时候, and the relationships I develop have always been one of the most fulfilling aspects of my job. They have defined my career as a multiple myeloma doctor and researcher.
But it was making myself vulnerable to the patient community that helped me deepen those relationships and ultimately inspired me to take a role at AstraZeneca that allows me to have an even greater impact on the patient experience.
设身处地为他们着想
In 2019, 我和病人一起, 护理人员, and other providers on a three-day hike in Iceland as part of the Moving Mountains for Multiple Myeloma Program, which supports the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Our 20-person team hiked hours each day across the terrain of Iceland, and it was both physically and mentally challenging. Once we started, there was no stopping – no turning back and going home.
We hiked each day along a glacier in Iceland and every person on our team had a role in reaching the final waterfall. I remember the water captain was a multiple myeloma patient. 没有自来水, 所以他不得不铲雪, bring it back to boil and filter it in order for everyone to have water to drink. He did this for our entire team – and was happy to do it. Watching him and the other patients and 护理人员 on the trip, 我对他们的力量感到敬畏, 弹性, 和坚韧.
我经常回想起这次冰岛之行. 它改变了我的职业生涯. My research has always focused on how to improve disease outcomes. But this experience allowed me to fully open up emotionally and begin to understand the patient experience on a deeper level.
你的生活，而不是你的一生
对于多发性骨髓瘤患者, it becomes all-consuming and the disease itself becomes part of their identity. 许多多发性骨髓瘤患者仍在工作, have families to care for and want to live full lives. Their disease is something they live with, but it shouldn’t have to define their lives.
During recent years I've learned how to let my personal guard down, to allow myself to look deeper into my patients’ lives. 这让我成为了一个更好的医生. It has also allowed me to understand them as people and not just patients. It’s so important to me to try to make their cancer journey easier for them. I feel sad when they tell me that they are tired or don’t have as much energy as they used to, and while I can’t completely understand their physical state, 我可以尽我所能去改善他们的体验.
合作促进进步
The trip to Iceland had a role in altering the trajectory of my career. It made me think about how I could make a larger-scale impact for patients. At AstraZeneca, I am working towards doing just that. My main focus is figuring out when we should be implementing treatment in the course of multiple myeloma and what treatment options to explore further.
I still practice oncology and see patients in a small capacity. It’s important that I am able to keep patients at the forefront of my mind every day when I come to work and focus on how my team and I can contribute towards improving cancer care. We know how fast oncology exploration evolves and we want to ensure that we are at the forefront of innovation. In order to continue to deliver new and effective medicines, it’s critical that we consider the patient experience from the beginning and are open to new ways of thinking as we forge pathways in hematology.
这只是开始
通过合作和整合病人的见解, my team and I are eager to utilize new technologies and techniques to get treatments to people with cancer faster, improve screening and diagnostics access and understanding, 使临床试验更有效率. Though we are at the beginning of our ambitious journey in hematology at AstraZeneca, after scaling a mountain – I know there is no challenge too big! 在一天结束的时候, 澳门葡京赌博游戏正在寻找治疗方法, and that is how we will truly transform the lives of our patients.
尼娜的故事是澳门葡京赌博游戏正在进行的系列节目的一部分: 肿瘤学先驱， which spotlights colleagues on the AstraZeneca 肿瘤学 team who are making an impact, 无论是个人还是职业.
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筹备日期:2023年6月