ASH presents Mentor Awards to two hematologists
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Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, and Christopher R. Flowers, MD, MS, will receive ASH Mentor Awards at this year’s ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.
Recipients are recognized for their contributions to the professional development of hematology trainees.
Caligiuri, president of City of Hope National Medical Center, has mentored more than 100 physicians, scientists and physician-scientists over the past 3 decades. He also has played an important role in supporting ASH’s Minority Medical Student award program, according to an ASH press release.
“Dr. Caligiuri derives great satisfaction from giving educational and career advice based on his own 35-year journey in academic medicine and the excellent guidance he received throughout his career from his mentor, the late Clara D. Bloomfield, MD,” the ASH release stated. “He has played a critical role in supporting ASH’s Minority Medical Student award program and has fostered the careers of many students who have pursued hematology professionally.”
Flowers — chair of lymphoma/myeloma at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — co-developed the ASH Minority Recruitment Initiative, which helps provide a 13-year pipeline of awards from the first year of medical school to faculty positions.
“Dr. Flowers first realized his passion for mentorship as a medical student, when he studied the work of a group of physicians who served as ‘clinical champions’ and dramatically sped the process of drug development,” the ASH release stated. “This inspired Dr. Flowers to become a clinical champion himself. Later, his formative experiences with his own mentors through his residency and fellowships inspired him to pay such guidance forward.”
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