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ASH selects trainees, junior faculty for research training institute
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ASH selected 20 hematology trainees and early career faculty members to participate in the ASH Clinical Research Training Institute.
The yearlong education and mentorship program — intended to help prepare participants for careers in patient-oriented clinical research — provides guidance on the fundamentals of competitive grant writing, abstract presentation and manuscript preparation. It also helps prepare trainees to develop successful careers in hematology research and build a network of other trainees to promote future collaboration.
This year’s training participants are Alexey Aleshin, MD, of Stanford University; Eugenia Asare, MBChB, BSc, of Ghana Institute of Clinical Genetics; Allison Barz Leahy, MD, of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Marisol Betensky, MD, MPH, of Johns Hopkins University; Neel Bhatt, MBBS, MPH, of Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals; Brandon Blue, MD, of Saint Louis University School of Medicine; Cecelia Calhoun, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital Consortium; Shruti Chaturvedi, MBBS, MSCI, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Robert Cronin, MD, MS, of Vanderbilt University; Peter Forsberg, MD, of University of Colorado, Denver; Elissa Furutani, MD, of Boston Children's Hospital; James Godfrey, MD, of University of Chicago; Fiona He, MD, of University of Minnesota; Ang Li, MD, of University of Washington; Kah Poh Loh, MBBCh, BAO, of University of Rochester; Shylaja Mani, MBBS, of The Ohio State University Hospital; Robert Nickel, MD, MSc, of Children’s National Medical Center; Allyson Pishko, MD, of Hospital of University of Pennsylvania; Jordan Schaefer, MD, of University of Michigan; and Surbhi Sidana, MBBS, of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.