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PASHions
PASHions highlights what ASH Clinical News
readers do creatively outside of practice. If you have
a creative skill in the arts you’d like to share with
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In this edition of PASHions, Hagop Kantarjian,
MD, tells about his interest in painting and shares
Hagop Kantarjian, MD
I started drawing and
painting as a child, probably
when I was around seven or
eight years old. I stopped
completely in adolescence
– for obvious reasons – and
later for a variety of other
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an example of his work. Dr. Kantarjian is professor
and chair of Leukemia at The University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
reasons – medical school,
civil war in Lebanon, etc.
In 1993, I took up painting again in Houston, taking
classes from Efim Frumin,
an immigrant Russian artist
from St. Petersburg. Twice a
week for two years, our class
of 10 to 12 students took lessons in his garage.
I started with a major love
and inclination for Fauvistic
art. More recently, I have been
painting what I am in the
mood for, so there are many
variations in style and color.
Perhaps in 10 or 20 years, I
may be good enough to earn a
living from this new career. ●
February 2015