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VOLUME 03 | NUMBER 12 | OCTOBER 2017 Around the Network AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY (ASH) HEADQUARTERS 2021 L Street NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20036 www.hematology.org Tel: [phone] IN THIS ISSUE pulling back the curtain Brian G. M. Durie, MD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS Dr. Durie shares how his father’s battle with tuberculosis led to his interest in medicine. 14 Vice-Chair for Clinical Research Director, Leukemia Program Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute Cleveland, OH feature The Opioid Epidemic ASSOCIATE EDITORS Beth Faiman, CNP, PhD Amid today’s opioid crisis, how are hematologists balancing the benefits of pain management with the risks of abuse? 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 Breaking Rank Consumer and federal agencies rank and compare health- care facilities with a stated goal of keeping patients informed, but recent errors in health-care ranking reporting raised questions about the validity and value of these systems. ASH Clinical News sought a clearer picture of how public ranking systems can advance – and impede – the common goal of better medical care. 61 55 clinical news 32 Examining Cancer Risk in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease 33  Carfilzomib Versus Bortezomib in Relapsed/Refractory Myeloma PUBLISHER American Medical Communications (AMC) EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITORS Kristin Hubing, ASH Ariel Jones-DeMaio, AMC ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR Kerri Fitzgerald, AMC EDITORIAL ASSOCIATE Laurie Adamson, ASH ART DIRECTOR Ari Mihos ASSISTANT ART DIRECTORS Charlene DePrizio John Salesi DIGITAL PROJECTS MANAGER Chris Gedikli ADVERTISING ACCOUNT MANAGERS Nick Luciano [email protected] ASHCLINICALNEWS.ORG @ASHCLINICALNEWS Each month, we speak with many talented hematologists and oncologists, bu t sometimes we can’t fit everything in print. So, we’ve launched a new feature on ashclinicalnews.org: Sound Bites! We’ll be sharing audio clips from our conversations with clinicians, researchers, and health-care leaders at ashclinicalnews.org/ sound-bites. This month, Brian Durie, MD, shares more about how his career in hematology began. Also, hear more from our September interviews with Gerald Soff, MD, and Joseph Antin, MD. We want to hear from you! Have an opinion about anything you saw in the pages of ASH Clinical News? Let us know at ashclinicalnews@ hematology.org! Or maybe you’d rather keep your comments to a 140-character limit. If that’s the case, tweet us at @ASHClinicalNews. “YOU MAKE THE CALL” WINNER Announcing last month’s “You Make the Call: Readers’ Response” winner: Gene Conselyea [email protected] Asha Nayak, MD Sima Sherman [email protected] For your chance to win, be sure to send in your response to each month's You Make the Call question! Hope you enjoy your prize! 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