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International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) - Members

by Beacon Staff on Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:26 am

Questions sometimes come up here in the forum as to who the leading myeloma researchers and specialists are in different parts of the world.

It is always difficult to create such a list because, of course, it inevitably will be subjective.

For the U.S., it may be helpful in some cases to turn to the Beacon's own list of multiple myeloma treatment centers.

In addition -- and in recognition of their valuable service to the Beacon community -- we want to make certain that everyone is aware of the highly qualified myeloma specialists who serve as Beacon Medical Advisors. The physicians who serve as Advisors frequently respond to questions and comment on discussions here in the forum.

Another useful list of international myeloma specialists is the membership of the International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG). The IMWG consists of leading myeloma researchers from around the world who collaborate on a broad range of myeloma research projects. Much of the IMWG's work focuses on developing guidelines related to the diagnosis and treatment of myeloma.

The posting below lists the current members of the IMWG. We will update this list now and then so that it is kept reasonably current.

Beacon Staff

Re: International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) - Members

by Beacon Staff on Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:31 am

Members of the International Myeloma Working Group
(based on publicly available information as of June 25, 2014, edited to reflect known changes in some of the affiliations of the listed members)

Niels Abildgaard, MD, Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark
Rafat Abonour, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Ray Alexanian, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Melissa Alsina, MD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
Kenneth C. Anderson, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Michael Attal, MD, Hôpital Purpan , Toulouse, France
Hervé Avet-Loiseau, MD, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Ashraf Badros, MD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Dalsu Baris, MD, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Bart Barlogie, MD, Mt Sinai Cancer Institute, New York, New York, USA
Régis Batille, MD, Institute de Biologie, Nantes, France
Meral Beksaç, MD, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
Andrew Belch, MD, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Bill Bensinger, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
Dina Ben-Yehuda, MD, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
P. Leif Bergsagel, MD, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Jenny Bird, MD, Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom
Joan Bladé, MD, Hospital Clinica, Barcelona, Spain
Mario Boccadoro, MD, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
Jo Caers, MD, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Michele Cavo, MD, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Asher Chanan-Khan, MD, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Wen-Ming Chen, MD, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Beijing, China
Marta Chesi, MD, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
J. Anthony Child, MD, University of Leeds , West Sussex, United Kingdom
James Chim, MD, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
Wee-Joo Chng, MD, National University Health System, Singapore
Raymond L. Comenzo, MD, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
John Crowley, PhD, Cancer Research and Biostatistics (CRAB), Seattle, Washington, USA
William Dalton, MD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
Faith Davies, MD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Javier de la Rubia, MD, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Carlos Fernández de Larrea, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Cármino de Souza, MD, Universidade Estadual de Campinas , Campinas, Brazil
Michel Delforge, MD, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Meletios Dimopoulos, MD, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
Angela Dispenzieri, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Johannes Drach, MD, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Matthew Drake, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Juan Du, MD, Changzhen Hospital, Shanghai, China
Brian G.M. Durie, MD, Samuel Oschin Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Hermann Einsele, MD, Medizinische Klinik II, Würzburg, Germany
Thierry Facon, MD, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille, France
Dorotea Fantl, MD, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jean-Paul Fermand, MD, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France
Rafael Fonseca, MD, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Gösta Gahrton, MD, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Ramón García Sanz, MD, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Christina Gasparetto, MD, Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Morie Gertz, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Irene Ghobrial, MD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
John Gibson, MD, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Peter Gimsing, MD, University of Copenhagen Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sergio Giralt, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Hartmut Goldschmidt, MD, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Philip Greipp, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Jingli Gu, MD, The First Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, China
Roman Hájek, MD, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
Izhar Hardan, MD, Chaim Sheba Medical Ce, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Parameswaran Hari, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Hiroyuki Hata, MD, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan
Yutaka Hattori, MD, Keio University Faculty of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan
Tom Heffner, MD, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Jens Hillengaas, MD, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Joy Ho, MD, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Antje Hoering, PhD, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, Washington, USA
Jian Hou, MD, Chang Zheng Hospital, Shanghai, China
Vania Hungria, MD, Clinica São Germano, São Paulo, Brazil
Shinsuke Iida, MD, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
Peter Jacobs, MD, Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic, Cape Town, South Africa
Sundar Jagannath, MD, Mt Sinai Cancer Institute, New York, New York, USA
Andrzej Jakubowiak, MD, The University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois, USA
Hans Johnsen, MD, Aalborg Sygehus, Aalborg, Denmark
Douglas Joshua, MD, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Artur Jurczyszyn, MD, The Myeloma Treatment Foundation, Kraków, Poland
Efstathios Kastritis, University of Athens , Athens, Greece
Jonathan Kaufman, MD, Emory Clinic, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Michio Kawano, MD, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan
Eva Kovacs, MD, Cancer Immunology Research-Life, Birsfelden, Switzerland
Amrita Krishnan, MD, City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
Sigurdur Kristinsson, MD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Nicolaus Kröger, MD, University Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Shaji Kumar, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Robert Kyle, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Chara Kyriacou, MD, Northwick Park Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Alessandra LaRocca, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Martha Lacy, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Juan Lahuerta, MD, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
Ola Landgren, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
Jacob Laubach, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Garderet Laurent, MD, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris, France
Fernando Leal da Costa, MD, Instituto Portugues De Oncologia, Lisbon, Portugal
Jae Hoon Lee, MD, Gachon University Medical School, Incheon, Republic of Korea
Merav Leiba, MD, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Xavier LeLeu, MD, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille, France
Suzanne Lentzsch, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Henk Lokhorst, MD, University Hospital Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Sagar Lonial, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Jin Lu, MD, Peoples Hospital, Beijing University, Beijing, China
Heinz Ludwig, MD, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria
Anuj Mahindra, MD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Angelo Maiolino, MD, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
María Victoria Mateos, MD, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Amitabha Mazumder, MD, NYU Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
Philip McCarthy, MD, Roswell Park Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, USA
Jayesh Mehta, MD, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ulf-Henrik Mellqvist, MD, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
GiamPaolo Merlini, MD, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
Joseph R. Mikhael, MD, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Angelina Rodríguez Morales, MD, Banco Municipal de Sangre de la Region Capital Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
Philippe Moreau, MD, University Hospital, Nantes, France
Gareth Morgan, MD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Nikhil Munshi, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Hareth Nahi, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Weerasak Nawarawong, MD, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Ruben Niesvizky, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA
Amara Nouel, MD, Hospital Ruiz y Paez, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
Yana Novis, MD, Hospital Sírio-Libanês, São Paulo, Brazil
Enrique Ocio, MD, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Robert Z. Orlowski, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Antonio Palumbo, MD, Ospedale Molinette, Torino, Italy
Santiago Pavlovsky, MD, Angelica Ocampo Hospital & Clinical Research Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Linda Pilarski, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Raymond Powles, MD, Parkside Cancer Centre, Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom
Noopur Raje, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Vincent Rajkumar, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Donna Reece, MD, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Anthony Reiman, MD, Saint John Regional Hospital, St. John, Canada
Paul G. Richardson, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Murielle Rousseau, IFM , Toulouse, France
Kenneth R. Romeril, MD, Wellington Blood and Cancer Centre, Wellington, New Zealand
David Roodman, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Laura Rosiñol, MD, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
Stephen Russell, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Jesús San Miguel, MD, Hospital Clinico Universitario, Salamanca, Spain
Rik Schots, MD, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Sabina Sevcikova, MD, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Orhan Sezer, MD, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Jatin Shah, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
John Shaughnessy, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Kazuyuki Shimizu, MD, Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Yamagata, Japan
Chaim Shustik, MD, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
David Siegel, MD, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
Seema Singhal, MD, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Pieter Sonneveld, MD, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Andrew Spencer, MD, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Edward Stadtmauer, MD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Keith Stewart, MD, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Daryl Tan, MD, Raffles Cancer Center, Singapore
Evangelos Terpos, MD, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
Patrizia Tosi, MD, Seràgnoli Institute of Hematology, Bologna, Italy
Guido Tricot, MD, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Ingemar Turesson, MD, Skåne University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
Saad Usmani, MD, Levine Cancer Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Benjamin Van Camp, MD, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Brian Van Ness, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Ivan Van Reit, MD, Academic Hospital Free University Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Isabelle Vande Broek, MD, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Karin Vanderkerken, MD, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Robert Vescio, MD, Cedars-Sinai Outpatient Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
David Vesole, MD, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
Peter Voorhees, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Anders Waage, MD, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
Michael Wang, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Donna Weber, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Jan Westin, MD, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
Keith Wheatley, MD, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Elena Zamagni, MD, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Jeffrey Zonder, MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Sonja Zweegman, University Hospital, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Beacon Staff


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