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