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Professional Members

Thinking of joining the MDS Foundation as a Professional Member? Our Professional Members are recognized on our MDS Foundation website as well as in our printed newsletters. Professional members also enjoy discounted registration rates at our biennial International Symposia, as well as a discounted subscription rate to Leukemia Research. In addition, membership fees help to support our educational programs, events, research, and advocacy efforts.

To join the MDS Foundation and help us fulfill our mission of moving closer to a cure for MDS, please visit our website at https://www.mds-foundation.org/professional-annual-membership-application/

Below is a list of our current Professional Members:

United States
Steven L. Allen, MD, Lake Success, NY
Maria Amaya, MD Aurora, CO
Leslie A. Andritsos, MD Albuquerque, NM
Ehab Atallah, MD, Milwaukee, WI
Maria R. Baer, MD, Baltimore, MD
Asad Bashey, MD, PhD, Atlanta, GA
Dean Beck Greentown, IN
Michael Becker, MD, Rochester, NY
Swarna Beesetti, MD, Memphis, TN
Rafael Bejar, MD, PhD, La Jolla, CA
John M. Bennett, MD, Rochester, NY
Emmanuel C. Besa, MD, Philadelphia, PA
Andrew M. Brunner, MD, Boston, MA
Victor Chang, MD, FACP, East Orange, NJ
Jason X. Cheng, MD, PhD, Chicago, IL
Alden Chesney, MD, Richmond, VA
Christopher Cogle, MD, Gainesville, FL
Robert H. Collins, Jr., MD, FACP, Dallas, TX
Larry Cripe, MD, Indianapolis, IN
Peter T. Curtin, MD, San Diego, CA
Magdalena Czader, MD, PhD, Indianapolis, IN
Carlos M. de Castro, MD, Durham, NC
Amy E. DeZern, MD, MHS, Baltimore, MD
John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD, St. Louis, MO
Ala Ebaid, MD, Albuquerque, NM
Erika Eksioglu, PhD, MS, Tampa, FL
Tarek Elghetany, MD, Houston, TX
Salman Fazal, MD, Pittsburgh, PA
Jonathan Feld, MD, New York, NY
Maria Eugenia Figueroa, MD, Miami, FL
James M. Foran, MD, FRCP, Jacksonville, FL
Matthew C. Foster, MD, Chapel Hill, NC
Alejandro Garcia-Hernandez, MD Hoover, AL
Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD, Houston, TX
Timothy Graubert, MD, Boston, MA
Peter L. Greenberg, MD, Stanford, CA
Elizabeth A. Griffiths, MD, Buffalo, NY
Michel Hoessly, MD, Paoli, PA
Inga Hofmann, MD, Madison, WI
Rachel Howard, Chicago, IL
Gang Huang, MD, Cincinnati, OH
Elizabeth Hyjek, MD, Tampa, FL
H. Joachim Deeg, MD Seattle, WA
Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD, Houston, TX
Herman Kattlove, MD, Beverly Hills, CA
Michael Kenneth Keng, MD, Charlottesville, VA
Jeffery Klco, MD, Memphis, TN
Andreas Klein, MD, Boston, MA
Rami Komrokji, MD, Tampa, FL
Patricia Kropf, MD, Charlotte, NC
Amelia Langston, MD, Atlanta, GA
Richard A. Larson, MD, Chicago, IL
Jane L. Liesveld, MD, Rochester, NY
Roger M. Lyons, MD, FACP, San Antonio, TX
Robert Madayag, MD, Lakewood, CO
Lori Maness, MD, Omaha, NE
Philip L. McCarthy, MD, Buffalo, NY
James McCloskey, MD, Hackensack, NJ
Christine McMahon, MD Aurora, CO
Stephen Medlin, MD, Cincinnati, OH
Kenneth R. Meehan, MD, Lebanon, NH
Raul R. Mena, MD, Glendale, CA
Melissa Mendez, Burbank, CA
Sanjay Mohan, MD, Nashville, TN
Shahram Mori, MD, Orlando, FL
Lynn Moscinski, MD, Tampa, FL
Stephen D. Nimer, MD, Miami, FL
Casey L. O'Connell, MD, Los Angeles, CA
Esther Obeng, MD, PhD, Nashville, TN
Olatoyosi Odenike, MD, Chicago, IL
Daniel A. Pollyea, MD, MS, Aurora, CO
Keith W. Pratz, MD Philadelphia, PA
Jeffrey Pu, MD, PhD, Tucson, AZ
Anastasios Raptis, MD, Pittsburgh, PA
Azra Raza, MD, New York, NY
Brandi Reeves, MD, Chapel Hill, NC
James M. Rossetti, MD, Pittsburgh, PA
Sushree Sahoo, MD, Memphis, TN
David Sallman, MD, Tampa, FL
Srinivasa Reddy Sanikommu, MD, FACP, Charlotte, NC
Michael R. Savona, MD, FACP, Nashville, TN
Hamid Sayar, MD, MS, Indianapolis, IN
Dale G. Schaar, MD, PhD, New Brunswick, NJ
Filiz Sen, MD, New York, NY
Richard K. Shadduck, MD, Savannah, GA
Paul J. Shami, MD, Salt Lake City, UT
Jamile M. Shammo, MD, FASCP, FACP, Chicago, IL
Barry S. Skikne, MD, FACP, FCP(SA), Kansas City, KS
Lisa Sproat, MD, MSW, Phoenix, AZ
James E. Thompson, MD, Buffalo, NY
Amit K. Verma, MD, Bronx, NY
Lindsay Wilde, MD, Philadelphia, PA
Amer Zeidan, MD, New Haven, CT
Ling Zhang, MD Tampa, FL
OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES
Sergio Amadori, MD, Rome, Italy
Marielle Beckers, MD, PhD, Leuven, Belgium
Nicolas Bonadies, MD, Bern, Switzerland
Dominique Bonnet, PhD, London, United Kingdom
Eugene Brailovski, MD, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rena Buckstein, MD, FRCPC, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gesine Bug, MD, Frankfurt Main, Germany
Jaroslav Čermák, MD, PhD, Prague, Czech Republic
Suning Chen, MD, PhD, Suzhou, China
June-Won Cheong, MD, Seoul, South Korea
Lisa Chodirker, MD, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michel Delforge, MD, PhD, Leuven, Belgium
Matteo G. Della Porta, MD, Rozzano Milan, Italy
Maria Diez-Campelo, MD, PhD, Salamanca, Spain
Gian Egger, MD, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Carlo Finelli, MD, Bologna, Italy
Katharina Götze, MD, PhD, Munich, Germany
Kirsten Grønbaek, Professor, MD, Copenhagen, Denmark
Emmanuel Gyan, MD, PhD, Tours, France
Detlef Haase, MD, PhD, Göttingen, Germany
Torsten Haferlach, MD, München, Germany
Eva Hellström-Lindberg, MD, PhD, Stockholm, Sweden
Brett Houston, MD, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Melita Kenealy, MD, Victoria, Australia
Wolfgang Kern, MD, Professor, Munich, Bayem, Germany
Sally Killick, MD, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Lars Kjeldsen, MD, PhD, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nicolaus Kroeger, MD, PhD, Hamburg, Germany
Nicole Laferriere, MD, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Saskia M.C. Langemeijer, MD, PhD, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Heather Leitch, MD, PhD, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Xiao Li, MD, PhD, Shanghai, China
Krzysztof Madry, MD, PhD, Warsaw, Poland
Tomoya Maeda, MD, PhD, Saitama, Japan
Claus Marcher, MD, Odense, Denmark
Moshe Mittelman, MD, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Yasushi Miyazaki, MD, Nagasaki City, Japan
Lee Mozessohn, MD, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Charlotte Niemeyer, MD, Freiburg, Germany
Kiyoyuki Ogata, MD, FACP, Chofu, Japan
Simona Pagliuca, MD, Paris, France
Stefani Parmentier, MD, Winnenden, Germany
Anne Parmentier, Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Michael Pfeilstöcker, MD, Vienna, Austria
Bruno Quesnel, MD Lille Cedex, France
Klas Raaschou-Jensen, MD, Odense, Denmark
Markus Radsak, MD, Mainz, Germany
Gary Richardson, MD, Malvern, Victoria, Australia
Alicia Rovo, MD, Bern, Switzerland
Guillermo F. Sanz, MD, PhD, Valencia, Spain
John F. Seymour, MD, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Lee-Yung Shih, MD, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Jake Shortt, MD, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Katja Sockel, MD, Dresden, Germany
Aspasia Stamatoullas, MD, Rouen, France
Reinhard Stauder, MD, Innsbruck, Austria
Argiris S. Symeonidis, MD, Patras, Greece
Akifumi Takaori-Kondo, MD, PhD, Kyoto, Japan
Hwei-Fiang Tien, MD, Taipei, Taiwan
David Valcárcel, MD, PhD, Barcelona, Spain
Norbert Vey, MD, Marseille, France
Maria Teresa Voso, MD, Rome, Italy
Alan J. Warren, MD, PhD, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Richard A. Wells, MD, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Yumi Yamamoto, BA, Tokyo, Japan
Karen Yee, MD, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nancy Zhu, MD, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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