In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Shaji Kumar, MD, a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, talks with Leslie Ellis, MD, a professor of internal medicine at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston Salem, North Carolina. They discuss the ASH Ambassador Program, which is designed to support the recruitment and retention of trainees into hematology. Dr. Ellis is chair of an ASH oversight subcommittee for that program.

In this episode, Tamara Dunn, MD, a clinical associate professor of medicine in the division of hematology at Stanford University in Stanford, California, and co-chair of ASH’s Women in Hematology Working Group, hosts a conversation with Toyosi Onwuemene, MD, an associate professor of medicine, specializing in hemostasis/thrombosis, at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and Nina Shah, MD, the global clinical head for multiple myeloma research and development at AstraZeneca. They talk about career choices and opportunities for women in hematology, both in academic medicine and industry. Support for this episode provided by Sanofi.

In this episode, Contributing Editor Ajai Chari, MD, a professor of clinical medicine and director of the myeloma program at the University of California San Francisco, talks with Pieter Sonneveld, MD, PhD, a professor of hematology at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. They discuss Dr. Sonneveld’s recent paper, “Daratumumab, Bortezomib, Lenalidomide, and Dexamethasone for Multiple Myeloma,” published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Chari wrote about Dr. Sonneveld’s paper in The Hematologist with his Diffusion article, “Four Is Better Than Three: Will We Finally Agree?” 

Disclosures: Dr. Chari has received consulting fees from Abbvie, Adaptive, Amgen, Antengene, Bristol Myers Squibb, Forus, Genentech/Roche, Glaxo Smith Klein, Janssen, Karyopharm, Millenium/Takeda, and Sanofi/Genzyme and received research funding from Janssen. Dr. Sonneveld has served on the advisory board of Pfizer and has received research funding and served on the advisory boards of Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Celgene, Janssen, and Karyopharm.

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In this episode, Contributing Editor Lori Muffly, MD, an associate professor of medicine specializing in blood and marrow transplantation and cellular therapies at Stanford University in California, talks with Roberta Demichelis, MD, an assistant professor in the department of hematology and oncology at the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrición in Mexico City. They discuss access to care for patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in low- and middle-income countries, especially among Hispanic populations. 

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In this episode, Contributing Editor Sarah Tasian, MD, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and chief of the hematologic malignancies program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, talks with Rob Pieters, MD, the chief medical officer at the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology and professor of pediatric oncology at the University of Utrecht, both in Utrecht, Netherlands. Dr. Pieters is one of the authors of a paper published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine: “Blinatumomab Added to Chemotherapy in Infant Lymphoblastic Leukemia.”

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In this episode, Dr. Shaji Kumar, editor-in-chief of The Hematologist, has a conversation with Drs. Jonathan Licht and Keith McCrae, the editors-in-chief, respectively, of ASH's two new journals Blood Neoplasia and Blood Vessels, Thrombosis & Hemostasis.

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In this episode, Dr. Satiro De Oliveira talks about his own experience with the mentorship program within ASH’s Minority Recruitment Initiative and its impact on trainees coming from underrepresented groups. Dr. De Oliveira is an associate professor in the Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology at UCLA.

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In this episode, Contributing Editor Kate Markey, MBBS, PhD, talks with Shernan Holtan, MD, one of the authors of a paper published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine: “Post-transplantation Cyclophosphamide-based Graft-versus-host Disease Prophylaxis.”

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In this episode, Contributing Editor Dr. Robert Hasserjian has a conversation with Dr. Siddhartha Jaiswal about a recent paper Dr. Jaiswal co-authored: “Aberrant activation of TCL1A promotes stem cell expansion in clonal haematopoiesis.” 

Dr. Hasserjian is a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School. He is also the director of the Hematopathology Fellowship Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Jaiswal is an assistant professor of pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Hasserjian wrote about Dr. Jaiswal’s paper in his recent Diffusion article in The Hematologist. You can access his Diffusion article online at: https://ashpublications.org/thehematologist/article/doi/10.1182/hem.V20.4.202344/496652/Genetic-Background-Influences-the-Growth-of-CHIP

 
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In this episode, Drs. Robert Stern and Ronak Mistry talk about their own professional journeys as hematologists, why they love what they do, the medical education for hematologists, and recruitment efforts to bring more students into the field.

Dr. Stern is the associate program director with the Dana-Farber Massachusetts General Brigham Fellowship in Hematology and Oncology in Boston. 

Dr. Mistry is a clinical fellow in the division of hematology and oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

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In this episode, Contributing Editor Dr. Michael Scott is joined by Dr. Sumedha Arya for a conversation with Dr. Cindy de Jong. They discuss a study covered by Drs. Scott and Arya in their recent Diffusion article titled “Anticoagulation and Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: Acknowledging Calls to Action.” Dr. de Jong performed analysis for the study and served as one of the lead authors of the paper published in Blood. To access the Diffusion article online, please click here. 

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