Before he was an oncologist, Rohit Gosain, MD, spent two years in Manhattan working as a software consultant.
But after those two years, “I threw away my circuit board and replaced with a stethoscope because I felt I was missing that human connection,” says Dr. Gosain, who recently became the Medical Director for Roswell Park Hematology Oncology Southtowns, in Orchard Park, NY.
Working on the community out of an office affiliated with Roswell Park means his patients have access to all treatment options available at the main hospital in Buffalo, roughly 12 miles away, along with the ability to be treated at the “mothership” if needed, Dr. Gosain says.
I'm Roy Gosain. I'm the Medical Director of Roswell Park Care Network at the South Towns location. I grew up in Toronto, Ontario and the love for physics, math and computers. Well, it was a calling for computer engineering right away. I went to University of Waterloo for my computer engineering degree. Following my completion of undergrad degree, I was working in Manhattan as a software consultant for about two years. Then I decided to go against and take a U turn and throw away my circuit board and replace it with a stethoscope because I felt I was missing that human connection. I went to sway University School of Medicine, former med school. And following that internal medicine residency at Sinai Hospital, Johns Hopkin University in Baltimore, Maryland and for fellowship right here at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, post internal medicine. It gave me a good background to focus on different areas, cardiology, gastroenterology, and part of it was oncology, seeing oncology, patients was such a relief because you are focusing on patient and their family as a whole, not just focusing on particular body part on top of that, how fast and rapidly this field is changing. Which is by the minute, which other specialty has offered 40 drug approvals each year on college is and that's how fast the field is changing. It is exciting time for oncologists to be in this field. On top of that, it is such an exciting time for our patients and their families because we are offering them so much more as a result. They are spending more quality time with their loved ones. As a community medical oncologist, we go from benign hematology patients and medical malignant oncology patients where I'm seeing iron deficiency anemia ber deficiency. And in the next room, there's prostate cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, and how rapidly this field is changing. It is so important to stay up to date. As a result with my medical education efforts, we have been working to bridge this important gap between community oncology and academia. So our patients can get the best care close to home with all this happening. There is antibody drug conjugates immunotherapy. This is such an exciting time and I can't wait for more of this to turn out where every day we are able to offer personalized medicine to our patients. Stage four cancer diagnosis, unfortunately used to mean death sentence. Now in this day and age patients with stage four cancer are living five years and more that is spending that quality time with their loved ones. It is such an exciting time to be in this field and that's where we are heading in the next 5 to 10 years. That is prolonging that survival. Yes, we are not there at curing the disease in stage four, but we are getting there step by step. Roswell Park is such a nationally known name to begin with and it's such an honor to come back to it and why I stay back because I did my fellowship training here. It's almost like coming back home. It is now time again to work with my mentors that I've trained under. Now. They are my coworkers and friends continuing to work alongside them and learn from them is such an incredible experience. Thing about Roswell Park Care Network. We are able to provide the advanced treatment options in network location. So our patients don't have to come all the way to downtown. And important part is if we are not able to provide any of that in our network settings, having main connection with the mothership in downtown patients are not losing out on any major treatment options. And importantly, clinical trials, which are changing the science by the minute.
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