Medical & Scientific Advisory Board (MSAB)

Mario Cazzola, MD

Professor of Hematology
Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo
University of Pavia
Pavia, Italy

Rafael Bejar, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
University of California, San Diego
Moores Cancer Center
La Jolla, California, U.S.A.

Rena Buckstein, MD

Head Hematology Site Group
Co-Director of MDS Research Program
Odette Cancer Center
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jane Churpek, MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care
Department of Medicine
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health &
The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A

Theo J.M. de Witte, MD, PhD

Professor of Hematology
Radboud University Medical Center
Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Erin P. Demakos, RN, CCRN

Administrative Director
Myelodysplastic Disease Center
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York, U.S.A.

Benjamin Ebert, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A

Silvia M. M. Magalhães, MD, PhD

Professor of Clinical Medicine – Hematology
Federal University of Ceará
Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio
Ceará, Brazil

Moshe Mittelman, MD – Chairman

Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Tel-Aviv University Medical School
Tel-Aviv, Israel

Yasushi Miyazaki, MD

Chief, Department of Hematology
Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Atomic Bomb Disease Institute
Nagasaki, Japan

Ghulam J. Mufti, DM, FRCP, FRCPath

Head of Department
Professor of Haemato Oncology in Haematological Medicine
King’s College London & King’s College Hospital
London, United Kingdom

Seishi Ogawa, MD, PhD

Professor
Kyoto University
Department of Pathology and Tumor Biology
Kyoto, Japan

Uwe Platzbecker, MD

Director
Medical Clinic and Policlinic 1
Hematology and Cellular Therapy
University Hospital Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany

Guillermo Sanz, MD

Head, Clinical Hematology & Hematopoietic
Cell Transplantation Unit
Hospital Universitario y Politecnico La Fe
Valencia, Spain

Akiko Shimamura, MD, PhD

Director, Bone Marrow Failure & MDS Programs
Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Lewis Silverman, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology
Assistant Professor of Oncological Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York, U.S.A.