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Hematology Highlights: A Post-ASH Review

Agenda

February 21, 2026

 

7:45 a.m.
Registration / Breakfast / Exhibits

8:15 a.m.
Welcome

Myeloid Diseases

8:20 a.m.
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs)
Tania Jain, MBBS
Associate Professor, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 

8:40 a.m.
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Aditi Shastri, MBBS
Associate Professor, Departments of Oncology (Medical Oncology), Medicine (Oncology & Hematology), and Developmental & Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 

9:00 a.m.
Acute Leukemia
Caner Saygin, MD
Assistant Professor, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL

9:20 a.m.
Q&A

9:40 a.m.
Break / Exhibits 

Lymphoid and Plasma Cell Diseases

10:00 a.m.
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Joanna M. Rhodes, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ

10:20 a.m.
Lymphoma
Harsh R. Shah, DO
Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology, Huntsman Cancer Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

10:40 a.m.
Multiple Myeloma
Christopher Strouse, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

11:00 a.m.
Infectious Prophylaxis for Bispecific Antibody (BsAb) and CAR T in Lymphoma and Myeloma
Haley Rust, PharmD, BCOP
Oncology Pharmacy Specialist, Nebraska Medicine

11:20 a.m.
Q&A

11:40 a.m.
Lunch / Exhibits 

Special Topics

12:40 p.m.
Sickle Cell Gene Therapy
Akshay Sharma, MBBS, MSc
Associate Member of the St. Jude Faculty, Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

1:00 p.m.
Nursing Roundtable
Alaina G. Chick, BSN, RN, BMTCN
Progressive Care Staff Nurse Lead, Special Care Unit, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Nebraska Medicine 

Lindsay M. Draft, BSN, RN, OCN
Inpatient Nurse Supervisor, Special Care Unit, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Nebraska Medicine

Lindsay N. Smith, BSN, RN, BMTCN
Progressive Care Staff Nurse, Special Care Unit, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Nebraska Medicine 

1:20 p.m.
Q&A

1:40 p.m.
Closing Remarks

1:45 p.m.
Adjourn