The Hematologist The Hematologist

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.”

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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