The 2021 ASH Practice Partnership Lunch will take place Sunday, December 12, at 11:15 a.m. Eastern time in International Ballroom A-D of the Omni Hotel at CNN Center and virtually. This year’s session titled, “How COVID-19
Changed the Practice Model,” focuses on the changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic to how hematologists across the United States provide care. Speakers Drs. Michael Tarantino (Bleeding & Clotting Disorders Institute), Christopher Flowers (MD Anderson Cancer Center), and Jennifer Green (Vanderbilt University), will delve into the changes in hematology practice brought on by COVID-19, focusing on three main issues including the practice model, disparities in health care, and the use of medical education.
ASH Committee on Practice Chair Dr. Chancellor Donald (Tulane University) explained that ASH will resume its traditional practice-focused lunch session aimed at facilitating collegiality and robust discussions concerning the delivery of care to patients with hematologic conditions and expressed the importance of this topic for the practice hematology community saying, “This is a very important session as it will focus on how COVID-19 changed the established clinical practice model, magnified disparities in health care, and augmented medical education.”