Part 1 - Dr. Marty Heslin talks about the "New Normal" for cancer care

Part 1 - Dr. Marty Heslin talks about the New Normal for cancer care

Dr. Marty Heslin is the new Cancer Center Director for the University of South Alabama Mitchell Cancer Institute in Mobile, Alabama. He is a Surgical Oncologist, and has spent the last 25 years at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System, where he most recently served as the Chief of the Medical Staff, and Executive Vice Chair of Surgery. 

In this episode  we take a look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the delivery of cancer care. 2020 has been a transformative year in many different ways… not all bad… even amid the challenges there have been some tremendously positive innovations and changes that will help us improve patient care for the future. We are all scrambling to understand what the “New Normal” might look like. 

 In PART 1 of our interview, Dr. Heslin shares his thoughts on how the delivery of cancer care was impacted by the challenges we all faced in 2020. He speaks at length about how patients, hospitals, physicians, and clinical teams reacted to the pandemic and have demonstrated incredible resilience and fortitude throughout this last year.  He also shares his findings of what he refers to as a “market research tour” of the cancer centers and hospitals within his new service area, to hear directly from these key stakeholders, what is most important them in the delivery of cancer care and what they need from a clinical partner like the Mitchell Cancer Institute.