Faculty

John Bennett, MD
University of Rochester, Medical Center
Professor Emeritus of Medicine
Lab. Medicine and Pathology, Hematology/Oncology
Rochester, NY

Olivier Blaizel, BPharm
Pharmacien
Coordonnateur de la pharmacie d’oncologie
CICM – Hôpital Charles Lemoyne
Greenfield Park, QC

Rena Buckstein, MD FRCPC
Head Hematology Site Group
Co-Director of MDS Research Program
Odette Cancer Center
Toronto, ON

Lambert Busque, MD, FRCPC
Associate Professor of Medicine, Université de Montréal
Haematologist, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital
Montréal, QC

Mario Cazzola, MD
Professor of Hematology
University of Pavia Medical School
Department of Hematology Oncology
Pavia, Italy

Chantal Cloutier
Oncology Nursing Consultant (NC)
Infirmière-pivot in Hematology
Jewish General Hospital - Segal Cancer Center
Montreal, Quebec

Robert Delage, MD, MSc, FRCP
Associate Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Univ of Laval
Head of Le Centre Universitaire d'Hematologie et d'Oncologie de Quebec
Centre Hospiatlier Affilie, Hoptial de L'Enfant-Jesus
Quebec City, QC

Erin P. Demakos, RN, CCRC
Associate Director of the Myelodysplastic Syndrome Center
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, NY

Pearlie Epling-Burnette, PharmD, PhD
Professor, University of South Florida,
Senior Member at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center Cancer Center,
Tampa, FL

Maria Figueroa, MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology,
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI

Norbert Gattermann, M.D., Ph.D
Professor of Medicine, Department of Hematology,
Oncology, and Clinical Immunology,
Managing Director of the University Cancer Center,
Heinrich-Heine-University (HHU),
Düsseldorf, Germany

Gabriel Gazzé, PharmD MUHC
Royal Victoria Hospital
Montréal, QC

Michelle Geddes, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Calgary
Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies
Department of Medicine, Department of Oncology
Calgary, AB

Aristoteles Giagounidis, MD
Head of Clinical Research Unit
Helios St. Johannes Klinik
Duisburg, Germany

Sergio Andres Giralt, MD, FACP
Chief, Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service
Division of Hematologic Oncology
Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Timothy Graubert, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Aly Karsan, MD, FRCPC
Medical Director, Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Head, Clinical Diagnostic Genomics, Genome Sciences Centre
British Columbia Cancer Agency
Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

Andrea Kew, MD
Faculty of Medicine
Dalhousie University,
Halifax, NS

Wendy Lam, B Sc(Pharm), MD, FRCP(C)
Hematologist / Medical Oncologist
Burnaby Hospital Regional Cancer Centre
Director of BC Community Oncology Trialists
Burnaby, BC

Michelle Le Beau, PhD
Arthur and Marian Edelstein Professor of Medicine,
Section of Hematology/Oncology
Director of the University of Chicago,
Comprehensive Cancer Center,
NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chicago, IL

Brian Leber, MD, BSc, FRCPC
Professor, Medicine
Hematology and Thromboembolism
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON

Heather Leitch, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Hematologist, St. Paul's Hospital
Associate Clinical Professor
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

Ross Levine, M.D.
Associate Member
Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program
Leukemia Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Cindy Murray
Nurse Practitioner
Malignant Hematology Program
Princess Margaret Hospital
Toronto, ON

Harold Olney, MD, FRCP(C)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Université de Montréal
Chief Department of Hematology-Transfusion Medicine
Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal
Montréal, QC

Anna Porwit, MD, PhD
Hematopathologist
Department of Pathology, University Health Network
Toronto General Hospital,
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology,
University of Toronto
Toronto, O\n

Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD,
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of the Leukemia Program, Department of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders,
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
Cleveland, OH

April Shamy, MD, CM, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University
Member, Department of Oncology, McGill University
Attending Staff Member, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine,
Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital
Montréal, QC

Lewis Silverman, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine & Oncological Sciences
Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology
Associate Professor, Tisch Cancer Institute
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

David P. Steensma, MD, FACP
Leukemia Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

John Storring, MD, CM, FRCPC
Assistant Professor Of Medicine, McGill University
Hematologist, McGill University Health Centre
Montréal, QC

Richard Wells, MD, DPhil, FRCPC
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Director, J. Douglas Crashley Myelodysplastic Syndromes Research Laboratory
Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, ON

Ms. Pam Wishart
Aplastic Anemia and Myelodsyplasia Association of Canada (AAMAC).
Vancouver, BC

Karen Yee, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Staff Hematologist, University Health Network,
Princess Margaret Hospital
Toronto, ON