Authors

Charles Abrams, MD Professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine; vice chair for research; and chief scientific officer of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; director of the Blood Center for Patient Care & Discovery at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; 2016 president of the American Society of Hematology

Ranjana Advani Professor of oncology at Stanford University Medical Center and the Saul A. Rosenberg Professor of Lymphoma at Stanford University School of Medicine in California

Hanny Al-Samkari, MD Senior clinical fellow in medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Steven Allen, MD Associate chief of hematology at the North Shore – LIJ Cancer Institute and professor of medicine at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine

Sherif Badawy, MD, MBBCh Fellow of pediatric hematology, oncology, and stem cell transplant at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine

Kenneth Bauer, MD Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Lisa Baumann-Kreuziger, MD BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee

Lisa Bellini, MD Professor of medicine, vice chair for Education, and Internal Medicine Training program director at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Joel Bennett, MD Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

David Blumenthal, MD President of the Commonwealth Fund

Laurence Boxer, MD Professor emeritus of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

James Bradner Associate director of the Center for the Science of Therapeutics at the Broad Institute and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts

Douglas Brandoff, MD Co-director of the Adult Palliative Care Clinic at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Elizabeth Brem, MD Division of Hematology/Oncology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts

George Buchanan, MD Professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas

Jose Bufill, MD Director of the Cancer Genetics Program at Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center in Mishawaka, Indiana, and a partner at Michiana Hematology-Oncology, PC, in South Bend, Indiana

Alan Burnett, MD Head of the department of hematology at the Cardiff University School of Medicine in Cardiff, United Kingdom

Linda Burns, MD National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match Donor Medical Services and the Medical Director at Health Services Research and the Senior Scientific Director at the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and president of the American Society of Hematology

Brian Callaghan, MD Assistant professor of neurology at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan

George Canellos, MD William Rosenberg Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts

Hetty Carraway, MD, MBA Associate Professor, Program Director of Hematology Oncology Fellowship, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute

Larisa Cavallari, PharmD, Associate professor and director of the Center for Pharmacogenomics at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy in Gainesville

Gabriela Cesarman-Maus From the National Cancer Institute in Mexico

John Chapin, MD Assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College-New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, New York

Aline Charabaty Associate professor of medicine and director of the IBD Center at MedStar-Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC

Curt Civin, MD Professor and director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine and associate dean for research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland

Eric Cober, MD Department of Infectious Disease at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio

Robert Cohen, MD Professor of medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Alice Cohen, MD Director, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Training Program Director, Hematology/Oncology, Director, Hemophilia and Thrombosis Treatment Center, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey

Joseph Conners, MD Clinical director at the Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, BC Cancer Agency, and clinical professor at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver

Jean Marie Connors, MD Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Steven Coutre, MD Professor of medicine in hematology at the Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California

Faith Davies, MD Professor of Medicine, Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Michael Deininger, MD, PhD Professor and Chief of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies
Department of Internal Medicine and the Huntsman Cancer Institute
University of Utah

Cynthia Dunbar Senior Investigator in the Molecular Hematopoiesis Section at the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Benjamin Ebert, MD, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Leslie Ellis, MD Associate professor of hematology and oncology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Beth Faiman, PhD, CNP, PhD Certified nurse practitioner at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio

Greg Flaker, MD, FACC Professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Missouri - Columbia

Arnold Freedman, MD Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and from the Department of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA

Jonathan Friedberg Director of the James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute and director of Hematologic Malignancies Clinical Research at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York

Bruce Furie, MD Chief of Hemostasis-Thrombosis and director of the Blood Coagulation and Vascular Biology Training Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts

Robert Gale, MD, PhD Visiting professor of hematology at the Imperial College London, executive director of Clinical Research in Hematology and Oncology at Celgene Corporation, and editorial board member for several scientific journals

David Garcia, MD Professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington

Morie Gertz, MD Chair, Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota

Timothy Gilligan, MD, MS Co-director of the Center for Excellence in Healthcare Communication, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

Amy Goodrich, RN, BSN, MSN, CRNP-AC Nurse practitioner in hematologic malignancies and research associate at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland

Jason Gotlib, MD, MS Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology) at the Stanford Cancer Institute

Vincent Ho, MD Clinical director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program and senior physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, as well as associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts

Peter Hokland, MD, DMedSci Clinical professor in the department of hematology at Aarhus University in Denmark

Mary Horowitz, MD, MS Robert A. Uihlein Jr. Chair in hematologic research and professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee

Eric Jacobsen, MD Clinical Director, Adult Lymphoma Program, Senior Physician, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Eric Jacobsen, MD Clinical Director, Adult Lymphoma Program
Senior Physician
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School
Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Elaine Jaffe Senior Investigator in the Laboratory of Pathology and Head of the Hematopathology Section at the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute

Brad Kahl Director of the University of Wisconsin Lymphoma Service and clinical research director for hematologic malignancies for the UW Carbone Cancer Center in Madison, Wisconsin

Marc Kahn, MD, MBA Peterman-Prosser Professor of Medicine in the Section of Hematology/Medical Oncology at Tulane University School of Medicine

Matt Kalaycio, MD Chair, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic Tausig Cancer Institute

Lawrence Kass, MD Head of Hematopathology at the MetroHealth System and professor of Pathology and Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio

Armand Keating Director, Cell Therapy Program and Philip S. Orsino Facility for Cell Therapy at Princess Margaret Hospital/Ontario Cancer Institute; Professor of Medicine, Professor at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering; Director of the Division of Hematology Epstein Chair in Cell Therapy and Transplantation at the University of Toronto

Michael Keng, MD Assistant professor of medicine at the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center in the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, Virginia

Jennifer Kesselheim, MD, MEd, MBE Associate Fellowship Program Director for Education and Senior Physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Co-Director of ASH Medical Educators Institute

Allison King, MD, MPH, PhD Associate Professor, Medical Director, Survivorship Program for Siteman Cancer Center, Program in Occupational Therapy, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO

Craig Kitchens, MD Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Department of Hematology & Oncology, University of Florida

Barbara Konkle, MD Associate Chief Scientific Officer
Associate Director, Washington
Center for Bleeding Disorders
Director, Hemostasis, Platelet Immunology, and Genomics Laboratory, Bloodworks Northwest
Professor of Medicine/Hematology, University of Washington

John Koreth, MBBS DPhil Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Senior Physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Michael Kroll, MD Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Section of Benign Hematology University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Rebecca Kruse-Jarres, MD, MPH Director of the Washington Center for Bleeding Disorders at Bloodworks NW and associate professor of medicine in the division of hematology at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington

Shaji Kumar, MD Professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota

Sandra Kurtin, RN, MS Nurse practitioner at the University of Arizona Cancer Center and assistant professor of medicine, and adjunct clinical assistant of nursing at The University of Arizona in Tucson.

Robert Kyle, MD Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology and professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota

Ann LaCasce, MD, Director, Dana-Farber/Partners at CancerCare Hematology-Medical Oncology Fellowship Program; Senior Physician; Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts

Ola Landgren, MD Professor of medicine and chief of myeloma service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, New York

Richard Larson, MD Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois

Agnes Lee, MD Professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia and director of the thrombosis program at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada

Stephanie Lee, MD, MPH Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington

Leidy Leidy Isenalumhe, MD, MS Clinical Hematology/Oncology Fellow, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida

John Leonard Associate dean for clinical research, vice chairman for clinical research, and associate director of the Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, New York

Ross Levine Laurence Joseph Dineen Chair in Leukemia Research and director of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Center for Hematologic Malignancies at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York

Ross Levine, MD Laurence Joseph Dineen Chair in Leukemia Research and director of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Center for Hematologic Malignancies at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York

Michael Linenberger Professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology, Robert and Phyllis Henigson Endowed Chair in Hematology, and director of the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. Also medical director of apheresis and cellular therapy at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Sagar Lonial Chair and Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology and Chief Medical Officer of Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University School of Medicine

Jennifer Lonzer, MA Editorial project leader at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio

Alison Loren, MD, MS Fellowship Program Director in the Department of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia

Bob Löwenberg, MD, PhD Professor of hematology at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the Editor-in-Chief of Blood

Selina Luger, MD Director of the Leukemia Program and professor of medicine at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia

Alice Ma, MD Associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill

Navneet Majhail, MD Director of the Blood & Marrow Transplant Program at Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute in Cleveland, Ohio

Jacques Malherbe, MD Clinical hematologist and head of the clinical hematology division in the department of internal medicine at Universitas Hospital, University of the Free State, in Bloemfontein, South Africa

Keith McCrae, MD Staff in Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders, Taussig Cancer Center, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (NC10), Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Ohio

William Mentzer, MD Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco

Ruben Mesa, MD Consultant Hematologist – Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Chair, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Deputy Director, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Chair, Arizona Cancer Coalition, Professor of Medicine, Scottsdale, AZ

Laura Michaelis, MD Associate professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee

Joseph Mikhael, MD, MEd Associate dean at Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, deputy director of education at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center

Beverly Mitchell, MD Director of the Stanford Cancer Institute

Stephan Moll Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of North Carolina

Colleen Morton Director of Clinical Coagulation at Regions Hospital, HealthPartners, and an assistant professor in the Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis

Ralph Nachman, MD Professor emeritus of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, New York

Anne Neff, MD Department of Hematology/Medical Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio

Carol O'Hear, MD, PhD Completed her pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 2014 and joined Genentech in South San Francisco, California, as an assistant medical director

Martin Palmeri, MD Hematologist/oncologist at Cancer Care of Western North Carolina in Asheville

Louis Pelus, PhD Professor of microbiology and immunology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana

Todd Pickard, MMSc, PA-C Director of the Physician Assistant Administrative Programs at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas

Carol Potlock, MD Attending, Lymphoma Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

Jerald Radich Principal investigator of the Radich Lab in the clinical research division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington

Anita Rajasekhar, MD Assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida

Tiffany Richards, MS, ANP, AOCNP Nurse practitioner in the Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas

Marcie Riches, MD, MS Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Research and Data Quality, BMT in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jean Ridgeway Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the department of hematology/oncology at the University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois

John Ryan, MD, FACC, FAHA Assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah

Jennifer Saultz, DO Fellow in hematology and medical oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Fred Schiffman, MD Sigal Family Professor of Humanistic Medicine, vice chairman of medicine, and associate physician-in-chief of The Miriam Hospital, as well as associate program director of Categorical and Preliminary Programs in Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and Medical Director of the Lifespan Comprehensive Cancer Center in Providence, Rhode Island

Stanley Schrier, MD Professor of Medicine (Hematology), Active Emeritus at the Stanford School of Medicine in Stanford, California

Bart Scott, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Oncology, University of Washington
Director of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Laurie Sehn, MD Medical oncologist at the BC Cancer Agency and clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada

Mikkael Sekeres Director of the Leukemia Program at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, and editor-in-chief of ASH Clinical News

Surbhi Sidana, MBBS Third-year Fellow, Hematology/oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Sonali Smith, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Director, Lymphoma Program, The University of Chicago Medicine

Mitchell Smith, MD Director of the lymphoid malignancy program at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio

Gamini Soori, MD, MBA Vice president of Nebraska Cancer Specialists and a clinical professor of medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine, both in Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Soori is also chair of the Council on Graduate Medical Education.

Eduardo Sotomayor, MD Director, GW Cancer Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Joseph Stavas, MD Professor of radiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

David Steensma, MD Senior physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA

Keith Stewart, MBChB, MBA Carlson and Nelson Endowed Director, Center for Individualized Medicine, and Vasek and Anna Maria Polak Professor of Cancer Research, Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona

Patrick Stiff, MD Division director of hematology/oncology and medical director of the Cardinal Bernadin Cancer Center of Loyola University Medical Center, as well as professor in the departments of hematology/oncology and pathology at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in in Maywood, Illinois

Wendy Stock, MD Professor of medicine in hematology/oncology and director of the Leukemia Program at University of Chicago

Richard Stone, MD Chief of staff and director of the Adult Acute Leukemia Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts

David Straus, MD David Straus, MD, Internist and Hematologic Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

John Sweetenham, MD Senior Director of Clinical Affairs, Executive Medical Director, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah

Martin Tallman, MD Chief of the Leukemia Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York

Joseph Tariman, PhD Assistant professor in nursing at DePaul University’s College of Science and Health in Chicago, IL

Karl Theil, MD Hematopathologist and director of the Pathology Residency Program at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio

John Tisdale Senior Investigator in the Molecular and Clinical Hematology Section at the National Institutes of Health

Nathaniel Treister, DMD, DMSc Assistant professor of Oral Medicine at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the chief of the divisions of Oral Medicine and Dentistry at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts

Saad Usmani, MD Director of Plasma Cell Disorders Program, director of clinical research in hematologic malignancies

Geoffrey Uy, MD Associate professor of medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri

Michael Willams, MD, ScM chair of the ABIM’s Hematology Specialty Board and an ABIM Council Member, and is the Byrd S. Leavell Professor of Medicine and chief of the Hematology/Oncology Division at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia

David Williams, MD President of the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and the Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and 2015 ASH President

Jane Winter, MD Professor of Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Northwestern University
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Chicago, IL

Alexandra Wolanskyj, MD Associate professor of medicine in the department of hematology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota

Joachi, Yahalom, MD Vice chair of academic programs, Department of Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York

Guy Young Director, Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program, and Attending Physician; Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation at Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Neal Young, MD Senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health and chief of the Hematology Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Neil Zakai Associate Professor of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Division, Department of Medicine, Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

Laura Zitella, MS, RN, ACNP-BC, AOCN Advanced practice provider and nurse practitioner for inpatient hematology/oncology at Stanford Health Care at Stanford University and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Physiological Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco

Marc Zumberg, MD Section chief of non-malignant hematology in the Division of Hematology/Oncology and the Department of Medicine at the University of Florida Health in Gainesville, Florida