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VOLUME 05 | NUMBER 07 | JUNE 2019 Around the Network IN THIS ISSUE pulling back the curtain David Schenkein, MD Dr. Schenkein walks us through the three stages – and counting – of his career. 18 clinical news 28  Examining Eltrombopag Dosing for Refractory Severe Aplastic Anemia New Drugs, Skyrocketing Prices 32  Hematologic Malignancies Drive In-Hospital Death Rates 36 I  s There a Role for AHCT Consolidation in Mantle Cell Lymphoma in the Rituximab Era? Patients with multiple myeloma are particularly vulnerable to the financial toxicity of treatment, with a movement toward new, multi-agent treatment combinations that often are given indefinitely. How did the pharmaceutical industry get to this point, and are the skyrocketing prices justifiable? 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 Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS Vice-Chair for Clinical Research Director, Leukemia Program Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute Cleveland, OH ASSOCIATE EDITORS Elizabeth Brém, MD UC Irvine Medical Center Orange, CA Beth Faiman, CNP, PhD Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH Alice Ma, MD University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC David Steensma, MD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston, MA 45 Keith Stewart, MBChB, MBA Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, AZ ASHCLINICALNEWS.ORG 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, Dr. Schenkein shares the secret to his success. 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