Digital, Informatics & Technology Solutions (DigITs)
As a firefighter and EMT in his New Jersey hometown, Paul Cortellesi doesn’t flinch when times get tough. So, when COVID-19 started to ramp up, he leapt into action and immediately volunteered to join the frontlines at MSK.
Mr. Cortellesi, a senior system architect in MSK’s DigITs group, was one of hundreds of clinical and nonclinical employees redeployed to assist with COVID-19-related operations. In March, he became a coordinator for MSK’s emergency response team to manage MSK’s supply of PPE. “There was no standard,” Mr. Cortellesi says. “We made it up as we went, based on best practices and the equipment we had.”