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The Results Are In …
ASH Announces 2018
Executive Committee
Members
ASH announced the election of four new members to
its Executive Committee, the governing body of the
organization, for terms beginning after the 2017 ASH
Annual Meeting December 9-12, 2017, in Atlanta, GA:
Stephanie J. Lee, MD, MPH, will serve as vice president.
Agnes Y.Y. Lee, MD, MSc, and Joseph Mikhael, MD,
MEd, will each serve as councillor.
Learn more about the newly elected members below.
Honoring the ASH-AMFDP Award Recipients
The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) held its annual meeting at ASH
headquarters October 3-6, 2017, which included a new one-and-a-half-day leadership development
program co-sponsored by ASH. A reception honoring the Amos Scholars as well as diversity in
academic medicine and research took place at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of
African American History and Culture. ●
Stephanie J. Lee, MD, MPH,
is professor of medicine at the
University of Washington Medi-
cal Center and lead investigator
at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center. Her work focuses
on hematopoietic cell transplant
(HCT) patients and chronic graft-
versus-host disease. In addition
to her research projects, Dr. Lee is research director of
the Long-Term-Follow-Up Program at Fred Hutchin-
son Cancer Research Center. This program follows
more than 5,000 HCT survivors. She has been an ASH
member since 1995 and most recently served as ASH
Secretary from 2013-2016.
Agnes Y.Y. Lee, MD, MSc, is
medical director of the Thrombosis
Program and professor of
medicine at the University of
British Columbia. She has won
several prestigious research awards
including a New Investigator Award
from the Canadian Institutes
of Health Research. Dr. Lee’s
primary clinical research interest is in cancer-associated
thrombosis and venous thromboembolism in other high-
risk populations. She has been an ASH member since
2000 and currently serves on the Awards Committee and
Small Meetings Oversight Subcommittee.
AMFDP National Director David S. Wilkes, MD, and ASH President-Elect Alexis Thompson, MD, speak about the
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