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VOLUME 03 | NUMBER 05 | APRIL 2017 Around the Network IN THIS ISSUE how i teach Research by Design Jennifer Kesselheim, MD, MEd, MBE, shares how she teaches young researchers to define successful research questions. 33 18  Encouraging Trends in Six-Month Mortality in Beth Faiman, CNP, PhD Predict Transplant Outcome in Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndromes 29 Coverage of the 16th International Myeloma Workshop 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 Keith Stewart, MBChB, MBA Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, AZ 35 PUBLISHER ASHCLINICALNEWS.ORG @ASHCLINICALNEWS Announcing the New and Improved ASHClinicalNews.org! Or maybe you’d rather keep your comments to a 140-character limit. If that’s the case, tweet us at @ASHClinicalNews. We relaunched our website to improve the user experience and bring you an easier-to-navigate design. 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