pure red cell aplasia (PRCA)

Catherine M. Broome, MD, is board certified in internal medicine, hematology and medical oncology. She has been on staff at the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center for eight years.

Matt Kalaycio, MD, FACP, is the former Chairman of the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute. Dr. Kalaycio is also a Professor in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Board-certified in hematology, Dr. Kalaycio's clinical interests are in leukemia and hematopoietic cell transplantation.

Dr Mattison is an associate professor of medicine within the division of hematology/oncology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He earned his medical degree at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA. He completed his residency at University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC and his fellowship at the University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL. Dr. Mattison is board-certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology.

Shannon McCurdy, MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is employed by Penn Medicine. Dr. McCurdy is board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. She is an active researcher and works with the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program, the Hematological Malignancies (Blood Cancer) Program and the Leukemia Program. 

Sarah Bannon is a Senior Genetic Counselor in the Department of Clinical Cancer Genetics at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her clinical responsibilities include providing risk assessment and genetic counseling services to individuals at risk for an inherited predisposition to hematologic malignancies (leukemia). She is the Genetic Counselor for the Hereditary Hematologic Malignancies Clinic (HHMC).

Mary K. Hughes, MS, RN, CNS, CT, is a Outpatient, Clinical Nurse Specialist with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Psychiatry Department where she works with a team of mental health professionals to support patients, families and caregivers from diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. 

Krisstina Gowin, DO is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Gowin graduated from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2009, where she received a merit scholarship and recognition from the American Women’s Medical Association for outstanding academic achievement. She completed internal medicine residency at University of Southern California, hematology and medical oncology training at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, fellowship training in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona.