Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)

Dr. Eric Padron is a junior investigator, having completed his fellowship in hematology/oncology at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida. He describes his area of interest in bone marrow failure disease as focused on Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML), which is related to Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS). Although he looks forward to his weekly clinic day when he is able to see patients with MDS, he also notes that the two year fellowship he received through the Edward P. Evans Foundation was invaluable in allowing him to protect some of his time from other clinical duties, and focus on his

Dr. Hetty Caraway received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine, and her fellowship in medical oncology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In addition to her medical training, Dr. Carraway earned an MBA from the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University in the Business of Health. She is currently a Staff Physician at the Taussig Cancer Institute in the Division of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Carraway is American

Dr. Navada is an assistant professor in the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She attended medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Subsequently, she did an Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor prior to completing a hematology/oncology fellowship at Mount Sinai. She is currently completing a Masters of Science in Clinical Research in the graduate school at Mount Sinai. Her primary clinical and research interests are myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in the

Joachim Deeg, MD is a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington and professor of medicine at the University of Washington. He is also a member of the AA&MDSIF Medical Advisory Board.

Dr. Graubert’s research focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of myeloid leukemias. While at Washington University in St. Louis, he and his colleagues used genome sequencing technology extensively to gain insights into the genetic basis of human cancer and to use this information to improve risk stratification tools and identify targets for novel therapy. Their group published the first complete genome sequence of a human cancer (acute myeloid leukemia) in 2008 and in subsequent publications described novel recurrent mutations in IDH2 and DNMT3A that have prognostic significance in acute

Dr. Amy DeZern is a hematologist and medical oncologist at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and is an Assistant Professor of Oncology and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree in 2005 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and her Master in Clinical Investigation (M.H.S.) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed residency training in internal medicine as well as fellowships in medical oncology and hematology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. DeZern sees patients at the Sidney Kimmel

B. Douglas Smith is Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and is on the active staff of Johns Hopkins Hospital. He earned his medical degree at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, after which he completed an internship, residency, and chief residency at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York. At the completion of his fellowship in Oncology at Johns Hopkins University, he joined the faculty in the Division of Hematologic Malignancies. Dr. Smith’s research focuses on taking new and promising laboratory insights and