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My patients don’t want to be cured. There, I said it. In my clinic, I primarily see older teens and young adults with sickle cell disease. We spend much of their visits discussing how to enter adulthood with a genetic disease that has hardened many of them... Read more
As a student in medical school, I could sit for hours and read. As time moved on (linearly unfortunately), my senescent neurons got more demanding when asked for some basic virtues like focus, concentration, and learning etcetera. The spirit of travel, being around friends and collaborators, and watching a spell-binding delivery of a phenomenal content turned out to be the right mix to feed adequate adrenaline ... Read more
ASH has demonstrated its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in numerous ways — efforts to improve care for diseases that disproportionally affect minority patients, government advocacy efforts, programs to diversify the hematology workforce, and more. These endeavors will be front and center this year...Read more
This year’s spotlight awardee is Yearlong Experience participant Joab Camarena at the Stanford School of Medicine who described his foundation in medical science, ongoing passion for in vivo genome editing, and experience as a mentee... Read more
During this year’s annual meeting, Connie Westhoff, PhD, of the National Laboratory for Blood Group Genomics and Immunohematology and Genomics at the New York Blood Center will be awarded the 2021 E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize in acknowledgment of her outstanding contributions to the field of transfusion medicine... Read more
The Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize is named after the late Ernest Beutler, MD, past president of ASH and a physician-scientist with a career that spans more than 50 years. This year, Margaret Shipp, MD, is recognized with the basic science award, and Stephen Ansell, MD, PhD, is the translational/clinical awardee.... Read more
