Check out ASH s VIDEO LIBRARY for Useful Teaching Tools

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1 Check out ASH s VIDEO IBRARY for Useful Teaching Tools ASH offers a number of FREE videos that are perfect for students. ASH s video library includes films on a variety of topics including: Cancer Cells vs. Healthy Cells Hereditary Spherocytosis How ymphoma Develops How a Clot Becomes a Pulmonary Embolism The Components of Blood The Problem With Sickled Cells The Role of Proteins in Blood Clotting The Role of Red Blood Cells in Anemia Von Willebrand Factor and ADAMTS13 Additionally, this library includes short videos about patients dealing with various hematologic disorders, excerpted from the film Blood Detectives.

2 AMERICAN SOCIETY of HEMATOOGY Have an open job to fill? The ASH Job Bank will connect you to thousands of well-qualified hematology and hematology-oncology professionals with diverse job experience. Quick Facts s!3( IS THE WORD S ARGEST HEMATOOGY SOCIETY CONNECTING THOUSANDS OF MEDICA PROFESSIONAS WORDWIDE s 4HE!3( WEBSITE AVERAGES MORE THAN VISITS PER MONTH s 4HE!3( *OB "ANK IS ONE OF THE TOP PAGES VIEWED ON THE!3( WEBSITE s 0OSTINGS CAN BE VIEWED HOURS A DAY SEVEN DAYS A WEEK GIVING YOUR OPEN POSITION CONSTANT VISIBIITY Get started at Questions? % MAI jobbank@hematology.org OR CA

3 ASH MEMBER BENEFIT CONSUT A COEAGUE Consult a Colleague helps facilitate the exchange of information between ASH members and their peers. All Consultations are available on clinical cases related to the following categories: inquiries will receive an or phone response within one to two business days. Hemostasis/Thrombosis eukemias ymphomas ymphoproliferative Disorders Multiple Myeloma & Waldenström Macroglobulinemia Myeloproliferative Disorders Myelodysplastic Syndromes

4 AMERICAN SOCIETY of HEMATOOGY ooking for career advancement? Take the first step today and begin your search in the ASH Job Center. The ASH Job Center is a free resource designed to help you connect with hematology and hematology-oncology jobs. We make it easy to find your next position search by job title, location, type of employment, or educational requirements. New features including the ability to post your resume and save job listings of interest are now available. Find an opportunity at Questions? jobbank@hematology.org or call

5 The eukemia & ymphoma Society announces two new research programs. Screen To ead Program will support academic drug discovery directed towards medicinal chemistry and /or drug targeted screening in hematological malignancies. The New Idea Award will support academic researchers with innovative therapy concepts that are substantially different than current standard treatments with the possibility of clinical testing in the short-term. It will also support initial exploration of untested but potentially transformative research ideas and treatment approaches. We are enthusiastically moving forward with these awards and hope you will look into the eligibility guidelines and application instructions in the Science Professional section of our website at Salt ake City, Utah: The Intermountain Center for Hematological Malignancies seeks BC/BE attending physician candidates for our blood and marrow transplantation and acute leukemia therapy program. The candidate will join an experienced and dedicated multidisciplinary FACT accredited and FDA registered program, offering allogeneic (related and unrelated) and autologous SCT. Many patients are registered on institutional, SWOG and consortium investigational protocols. The Intermountain Blood and Marrow Transplant Program s referral base consists of the Intermountain West area (Utah and surrounding states) and performs approximately 80 SCT s yearly. The Acute eukemia Program receives newly diagnosed acute leukemia patients who are candidates for intensive induction. The program currently employs 6 experienced transplant/leukemia Hem/Onc physicians and 10 midlevel providers as well as an extensive and excellent dedicated nursing and ancillary staff. Backup call will be shared equally between attendings. Send/ /fax CV to: Intermountain Healthcare, Attn: Wilf Rudert, Physician Recruiting, 36 South State Street, 21st Floor, Salt ake City, UT 84111; Fax: PhysicianRecruit@imail.org. Web: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program Division of Hematology/Oncology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Robert H. urie Comprehensive Cancer Center The Division of Hematology/Oncology at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine seeks faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor on the clinician track for the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program. The Stem Cell Transplant Program performs 250 autologous and allogeneic procedures per year primarily for adults with hematologic malignancies. The program is seeking a clinical researcher addressing key issues in transplantation including novel preparative regimens, graft manipulation, new forms of graft versus host disease prophylaxis and long term outcome and survivorship issues after transplant. A fully operational GMP facility is available for advanced cell manipulation. The HSCT program is an integral part of the hematological malignancy program of the Division of Hematology and Oncology and the Robert H. urie Comprehensive Cancer Center with strong extramurally funded research programs in myeloma, lymphoma, leukemia, MDS and myeloproliferative neoplasms. This is a full-time faculty position. Salary will be based on qualifications and experience. Qualifications include board certification in Hematology, Oncology or both and specialized experience in HSCT. Clinical researchers will devote a significant portion of their time to protocol development and prospective clinical research. Northwestern University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the United States. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. To receive full consideration, applications must be received by February 1, The positions will remain open until filled. Please reference search number P-162N-10 and submit a statement of research and clinical interest, CV and three letters of reference to: eon Platanias, MD, Deputy Director, Robert H. urie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 East Superior Street, urie 3-125, Chicago, I 60611, stemcell@northwestern.edu.