Welcome to the Mesothelioma Help Aspen Nurse interview session. We re privileged to be talking to a doctor and two nurses with mesothelioma experience. Lisa Hyde-Barrett who has been a thoracic surgery nurse for nearly 25 years and has had the privilege of caring for countless mesothelioma patients over the years offers key medical information to the readers.
Ellie Erickson has been working in the surgical intensive care unit at Brigham and Women s Hospital since 1985. Before then she worked in the cardio-thoracic ICU and the ICU float pool. She earned her diploma in nursing from the Mount Auburn Hospital School of Nursing in 1978 and earned her B.S.N. from Wooster State College in 1982.
Dr. DeSilva [inaudible 00:01:05] at Loyola University Medical Center and professor of surgery at the Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. He is the co-director of the lung cancer program and the director of the international Midwestern mesothelioma program Cardinal Bernadine s Cancer Center. So w