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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY ( ASH ) HEADQUARTERS 2021 L Street NW , Suite 900 Washington , DC 20036 www . hematology . org Tel : 202-776-0544

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Aaron Gerds , MD Cleveland Clinic Cleveland , OH

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Elizabeth Brém , MD UC Irvine Medical Center Orange , CA

Aristoteles Giagounidis , MD Marien Hospital Düsseldorf , Germany

Sandra Kurtin , PhD The University of Arizona Tucson , AZ

Joseph Mikhael , MD , MEd City of Hope Cancer Center Phoenix , AZ

Bethany Samuelson Bannow , MD Oregon Health & Science University Portland , OR

Alexandra Wolanskyj-Spinner , MD Mayo Clinic Rochester , MN

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Pulling Back the Curtain

24 Caitlin Costello , MD

Dr . Costello talks about her winding path to a myeloma specialty and raising four daughters along the way .

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On Location Preview

28 Are New Clinical Trial Designs Effective ?

32 The Role of Race in Biomedical Research

37 The Hematology Laboratory of the Future

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