VOLUME 04 | NUMBER 08 | JULY 2018
Around the Network
IN THIS ISSUE
pulling back the curtain
Allison Rosenthal, DO
Dr. Rosenthal recounts her experience as a leukemia patient
during young adulthood, which destined her for a career in
malignant hematology and landed her on a billboard.
Created Equal?
Movements like Time’s Up and #MeToo have shone a light
on discrimination and harassment against women in the
workplace, and revealed that no profession – including
medicine – is immune. We asked clinicians and researchers
who study the factors that influence gender inequality
whether these imbalances can be corrected.
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS
18 Vice-Chair for Clinical Research
Director, Leukemia Program
Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute
Cleveland, OH
how i teach
Refining Communication ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Lidia Schapira, MD, shares her advice for teaching better
communication skills and creating a more productive and
supportive patient-clinician relationship.
Beth Faiman, CNP, PhD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Alice Ma, MD
55 University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
clinical news David Steensma, MD
37 I ndividual Testing of Blood Donations for Keith Stewart, MBChB, MBA
Zika Virus Effective, But Costly
41 U
pdates in Malignant Hematology from
the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, AZ
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American Medical Communications (AMC)
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Want to hear more from the talented hematologists and
oncologists we interview for our print issue?
Visit ashclinicalnews.org/sound-bites to hear everything
we couldn’t fit in print!
This month, Pulling Back the Curtain interviewee
Allison Rosenthal, DO, shares the helpful advice she received early in her
career and the best parts of her day in the clinic.
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