Roswell Park COVID-19 Updates: Live Webinars, Cloth Mask Distribution

“Ask the Experts” Live Webinars to Answer Our Patients’ Questions

Our patients and their loved ones have many questions about cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Every Friday, our experts will host webinars to help provide answers on a variety of topics. The first webinar aired today with Dr. John Kane and Dr. Eunice Wang and is posted for on-demand viewing. We invite you to register here for these informative sessions. If you can’t tune in live, a full video will be emailed to registrants after each webinar.

Webinars for Physicians to Start Next Week

Join Roswell Park faculty for live interactive discussion on Thursdays as they discuss topics related to cancer care and COVID-19. Each week, Roswell Park clinical faculty will go live to connect with clinical care partners in the community to help answer any questions specific to cancer care, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Next week, Dr. Igor Puzanov, Chief of Melanoma and Director of the Early Phase Clinical Trials Program will be discussing some of the collaborative efforts being done in our region to treat the virus at 6 p.m. ET. Link to register here.

Cloth Masks to Be Distributed to Roswell Park Patients

Cloth masks are now being handed out to our patients and visitors, per updated guidance from the CDC about wearing face coverings in public. They are distributed alongside CDC instructions to our patients and visitors. As a specialty cancer hospital that is not a general care facility for those with or suspected to have COVID-19, Roswell Park is grateful to be able to offer the masks as as an extra layer of protection for our visitors and patients who are coming to Roswell Park for cancer care services. Our clinical staff also continue to wear procedure masks and other personal protective equipment as necessary throughout their day. protection for those with whom the patients come in contact. They are distributed alongside CDC instructions to our patients and visitors, per updated guidance from the CDC about wearing such masks in public. Read more about the recommendations from the CDC.

The Roswell Park community expresses our sincere thanks to everyone who has been donating masks or other supplies to benefit our patients and staff — among them Clinical Chief of Breast Surgery Dr. Kazuaki Takabe’s son, Yamato, and a group of his fellow students at the Nichols School, pediatrician Dr. Martina Puzanov (wife of Dr. Igor Puzanov), a mother and son who are both former Roswell patients and the Chinese Club of Western New York. We are so grateful for your thoughtfulness and generosity!

Editor’s note: Because information and policies regarding the COVID-19 health crisis are rapidly changing, the information we are providing may quickly become outdated. Please check back regularly at roswellpark.org/coronavirus for updates and new information.

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