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Eunice Wang, MD

Wang, Eunice
Chief of Leukemia Service
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Dr. Eunice Wang is the Chief of the Leukemia Service at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Wang joined the Roswell Park faculty in 2003 and was appointed to the Leukemia Service of the Department of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale University, New Haven, CT in 1999. From 1999 to 2003, she completed a clinical hematology-oncology and research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY.

Swapna Thota, MD

Thota, Swapna
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Tennessee

As a physician caring for patients with acute leukemias and related disorders, I have a sustained focus on translational research in hematologic malignancies. Genomic sequencing technology revolutionized our understanding of cancer biology. My research focuses on exploring the dynamic changes of tumor immune microenvironment with clonal evolution of myeloid malignancies. Targeting inflammaging of

Understanding GVHD

Dr. Catherine Lee will provide a comprehensive overview of chronic and acute graft vs host disease ("GvHD") which is a complication of bone marrow transplant.  While some patients have very mild GvHD, many patients have more severe and long term disease.  Dr. Lee will discuss pre-transplant prevention and post-transplant management of GvHD. 

Catherine Lai, MD, MPH

Lai, Catherine
Associate Professor and Physician Leader of the Leukemia Clinical Research Unit
University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine

Dr. Lai's clinical expertise is in Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BMT). She specializes in autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplants for the treatment of malignant and benign hematologic diseases in adult patients. She conducts her research in the Medicine Division of Hematology/BMT at the Huntsman Cancer Center. 

Gerard Socie, MD

Socie, Gerard
Head of Hematology
Hospital St. Louis

Gerard Socié, MD, PhD, is the head of the hematology department at Hospital Saint-Louis, APHP. Gerard Socié has a research appointment at the Institut Pasteur -APHP with Dr. Lars Rogge.   His main fields of expertise are transplantation (GvHD),