Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

Hereditary MDS

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Topic(s)
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Presenter(s)
Lucy Godley, MD, PhD
Lucy Godley, MD, PhD, (UChicago Medicine) discusses the connection between heredity and MDS. While MDS is most often not inherited, there are some genetic mutations and other genetic conditions that can lead to a diagnosis of MDS.

Catherine Chittick, RN, BSN

Institution
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Physician Status
available for consultation
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
About
Catherine Chittick, RN, BSN is an oncology nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where she has been employed for five years since the start of her career. After graduating from Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, CT) School of Nursing in 2015, Catherine joined the nursing profession as a registered nurse at the MGH as part of the eCare Nursing Residency program for new graduates. She has both outpatient and inpatient experience, working first in an outpatient infusion nurse caring for leukemia and bone marrow transplant patients before moving inpatient to care for patients with

Jenna Moran, MSN, FNP-BC

Institution
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Physician Status
available for consultation
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
About
Jenna Moran, MSN, FNP-BC, is an oncology nurse practitioner with the Leukemia department at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston, MA. She has experience in both the ambulatory and inpatient care settings. Her current areas of clinical focus include acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. She has worked as clinical faculty at Simmons College as an instructor for medical surgical nursing. Additionally, she has worked as a global health nurse educator providing bone marrow transplant education and training to

Aura Ramos, RN, BSN

Institution
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Physician Status
available for consultation
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
About
Aura Ramos, RN, BSN, is a leukemia research nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston for the past 6 years. Aura has over 16 years of nursing experience caring for oncology patients in the ambulatory and inpatient setting. Prior to becoming a research nurse, she worked as a staff nurse on the leukemia and bone marrow transplant unit. She had the opportunity to travel to Dhaka, Bangladesh and educate nurses on caring for bone marrow transplant and leukemia patients. As a research nurse, she continues to educate staff on the administration of new research oral and

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Myelodysplastic syndromes with ring sideroblasts (MDS-RS) and MDS/myeloproliferative neoplasm with RS and thrombocytosis (MDS/MPN-RS-T) - "2021 update on diagnosis, risk-stratification, and management"

Disease overview: Ring sideroblasts (RS) are erythroid precursors with abnormal perinuclear mitochondrial iron accumulation.

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