Well Said: Satish Gopal

Well Said

Despite being a Carolina faculty member for the past five years, actually being in Chapel Hill has become a rarity for Satish Gopal. Normally he's halfway across the world treating cancer patients in Malawi, where he is the only board-certified medical oncologist in the country of 18 million people. As the cancer program director for UNC Project-Malawi, Gopal is working to build the care infrastructure that will both help Malawi address its rising cancer burden and serve as a model for effective cancer care in low-resource settings across the globe. This weekend, however, Gopal will be returning to Carolina to deliver the commencement address at the Winter Commencement on Dec. 17 at 2 p.m. in the Dean E. Smith Center. In this week's episode, we talk about UNC-Project Mawali and the upcoming Winter Commencement with Gopal, UNC Project-Malawi’s cancer program director.