A Nurse, a Doctor and Some CDC Guidelines Walk into P2P:
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About COVID-19 But Were Too Afraid To Ask
Sunday, October 25th 1:00pm
Dr. Sunny Chander and Nurse Alice Clifford, P2P Director of Health Services, get candid during a one-on-one conversation. They discuss many COVID-19 topics, including how COVID-19 has evolved, precautions we should all be taking, and what the future might look like. Times may be tough now, but as therapeutics advance, a vaccine will be developed, and if we all continue to do our part, there are better times to come.
About Sunny
Vivek (Sunny) Chander is a Board Certified emergency medicine physician who has been working at Milford Regional Hospital for the past twenty years. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in Microbiology in 1991 and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical school in 1995. He has been a practicing emergency medical specialist since 1998.
He is the son of first generation immigrants from India. His father received a full scholarship to West Virginia University in Morgantown, which is where Sunny was born. He moved extensively in his childhood and lived in India, Iran, and multiple places in the United States imbuing him with a global perspective as well as with a love to travel.
He met his wife Krisztina in 2000 on a trip to Mexico. They have been married for 19 years. They have three children: Marina (16), Kavi (13), and Zaina (11). He continues to love to travel and looks forward to traveling again when the Covid 19 pandemic has been effectively curtailed. His twitter description is, " Father, Husband, ER physician who feels that we should think and act locally, nationally and globally ... and have fun doing it !!!"
He has provided medical relief work in Armenia, Moldova, Belize and most recently in Arequipa, Peru. He and his wife originally traveled to the Alto Cayma region of Arequipa in 2017. Moving beyond providing short term medical relief, they created an NGO called ProCayma aimed to help women in need in this region. Procayma empowers women by helping them start micro businesses enterprises to become self-reliant through entrepreneurial work and education. In 2019 they were able to start 15 small chicken farms in this region and again look forward getting back to work there when we have come out of the other side of this pandemic.
The Covid 19 pandemic has been challenging to all of us - particularly for our first responders working in the emergency department. Dr. Chander wants to share with us some of the experiences that he has had as well as to discuss lessons learned. He will encourage all of us to keep up with physical distancing, mask wearing and hand washing. He feels that we can all get through this as long as we all do our part.