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Florian Schönharting, has served as the Chairman of our board of directors since 2018. Mr. Schönharting is one of our co-founders. Mr. Schönharting is also co-founder of Forward Pharma A/S, has served on its board of directors since 2005 and Chairman of the board of directors since 2011. He has also founded or co-founded several other biopharmaceutical companies, including Genmab A/S, Veloxis A/S (f/k/a Life Cycle Pharma A/S), Zealand Pharma A/S and Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. Mr. Schönharting has more than 25 years of investment executive experience in public and private equity funds involved in the biopharmaceutical industry. We believe that Mr. Schönharting is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his experience, attributes and skills, including his extensive pharmaceutical and executive experience.
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Dermot Hanley
Mr. Hanley is an experienced independent non-executive director and investment banker. He is currently a non-executive board member of numerous private equity backed companies and regulated financial investment funds. These include Killiney Maritime since September 2018, Larix Opportunities Master ICAV since February 2020, Varagon Capital Credit Strategies ICAV since October 2020. Additionally, he has served as Chairperson of RTW Investments ICAV since January 2021 and CVP Credit Value Fund (Europe) V GP Limited since May 2021. He founded Nusli in 2012. Previously, Mr. Hanley was Co-Head of Coverage for Barclays Bank Ireland and spent 16 years in international investment banking and capital markets roles with major global firms, including Claret Capital, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Citibank. He is a member of the Governance Advisory Council for The Corporate Governance Institute and is also a longstanding member of the Finance and Economics Committee (Ecotax) at The Irish Business and Employers Confederation. He is a graduate of University College Dublin (BSc) and The Queens University of Belfast (MBA) and holds a diploma in corporate governance from The Governance Institute/Glasgow Caledonia University.
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Duncan Moore, PhD
Dr. Moore is a partner at East West Capital Partners since May 2008. Previously, Dr. Moore was a top-ranked pharmaceutical analyst at Morgan Stanley from 1991 to 2008 and was a Managing Director from 1997 to 2008 leading the firm's global healthcare equity research team. Whilst at the University of Cambridge, he co-founded a medical diagnostics company, Ultra Clone, with two colleagues which led to the beginnings of a 20-year career in healthcare capital markets analysis. In 1986, he was involved in establishing the BankInvest biotechnology funds and was on their scientific advisory board. Dr. Moore was educated in Edinburgh and attended the University of Leeds where he studied Biochemistry and Microbiology. He has a M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge where he was also a post-doctoral research fellow. Currently, he is an active investor in biomedical companies as Chairman of Lamellar Biomedical and Allarity Therapeutics A/S (previously Oncology Venture A/S). In addition, he has a board position at Forward Pharma A/S and Cycle Pharma. He is also the Chairman of the Scottish Life Sciences Association and serves on the Board of Governors of Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh and the International School in Shenzhen in the Peoples Republic of China.
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Michael Forer
Michael Forer, has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2020. Mr. Forer is currently Vice Chairman of the board of directors and Executive Vice President of ADC Therapeutics SA, a position he has held since June 2015. Mr. Forer has also been General Counsel of ADC Therapeutics SA since October 2020. From 2016 to 2020, Mr. Forer was Chief Financial Officer of ADC Therapeutics SA, and from 2011 to 2015, Mr. Forer was the Chief Executive Officer of ADC Therapeutics SA. From 2009 to 2013, Mr. Forer was a board member and Executive Director of Spirogen. Prior to that, Mr. Forer was the Managing Director for the investment activities of Auven Therapeutics Holdings L.P. from 2008 to 2015, the co-founder and Managing Director of Rosetta Capital Limited, and an Investment Manager at Rothschild Asset Management from 1998 to 2001. Mr. Forer holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Western Ontario and an LL.B. from the University of British Columbia. We believe that Mr. Forer is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his experience, attributes and skills, including his extensive pharmaceutical experience.
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Spike Loy, JD
Spike Loy, JD, has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2020. Mr. Loy is currently Managing Director of BVF Partners LP, where he has served in various capacities since 2009. Mr. Loy holds a B.A. in human biology from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. We believe that Mr. Loy is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his experience, attributes and skills, including his extensive executive experience.

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This is Monurai (Mony) Bhakdina, the owner of Queen Cobra Thai, a business that she credits for making her realize that cooking is her true passion. Like many entrepreneurs in the food industry, Mony started Queen Cobra Thai because she had grown unhappy with her position in the corporate world. But unlike other entrepreneurs, Mony's food tells a very personal story of carrying on her family's tradition in a new home. Mony grew up in Bangkok, Thailand and came to the U.S. in 2004. Back then, she says, she couldn't find any food that was like the food in Bangkok, so she began cooking a lot, recreating the recipes that her grandmother had taught her, as she was the cook in their family that everyone learned from. Her grandmother grew up in Thailand in the 1920s and when she was 10 years old, she was sent to work as a cook in the palace for a royal family. She worked there for fifteen years until she got married and then moved to Chiang Mai, where she opened her own restaurant, specializing in high-end Northern Thai cuisine. In 1983, when Mony's parents decided to open their own restaurant in Bangkok, her grandmother taught them the recipes that she had created and how to cook each dish. Since her own restaurant had closed at this point and Mony's father was working as an architect, her mother and grandmother ran the restaurant together for six or seven years until her grandmother was unable to continue working and they had to sell the business. Her grandmother then began teaching Mony how to cook, starting with food prep then spicy beef salad and massaman curry before moving onto more complex presentation skills like carving fresh ginger into flowers (which Mony says she's still unable to do). It was this personal connection to food, and her family, that spurred Mony's love for cooking and became a source of comfort for her when she moved to New York. Now Queen Cobra Thai is Mony's way of passing along the authentic, home cooked, Thai meals that her grandmother taught her to others.
Before starting Queen Cobra Thai, Mony was working as a graphic designer at a small advertising company in Manhattan. She had decided to come the the U.S. after earning her degree in graphic design in Bangkok because she wanted to experience the New York lifestyle and since her brother and some relatives were already living in New York, it seemed like the perfect time. But after a while, she realized that the role she was working in was not her dream job. She was constantly feeling disappointed because clients were picking other designs over hers. She had started questioning herself and wondering if graphic design was the right career for her. Her friends and family, who she frequently cooked for and loved her food, saw how frustrated she had become with her job and kept encouraging her to start a food business. The idea stuck in her head and she thought about it more and more until 2013, when she decided to go for it. She knew that Smorgasburg was looking for new vendors and decided to test her food out there since the market would give her access to a large audience. She began selling her food at Smorgasburg on the weekends and working at her graphic design job during the week. She did this for a few months until her food became so popular that she was able to quit her job in graphic design and focus on her food business full-time.
For the first few years of the business, Mony sold her food at Smorgasburg, street fairs and other food festivals, cooking everything in her commercial kitchen in Bushwick and then transporting it to events. She was doing really well and getting a lot of compliments on the food as well as a lot of returning customers. Her customers soon started asking her to do catering for events and to host cooking classes so that they could learn to make the dishes themselves. After getting involved in catering and teaching, Mony decided to shift her business to focus solely on these two facets as the food market/street fair circuit had started to cause issues because it was forcing her to depend on a lot of other people to help run her business. Now she only offers catering and small cooking classes (for 2-6 people per class) out of her apartment. She no longer has her kitchen in Bushwick so she rents kitchen space from her friend who owns a restaurant in Chelsea where she preps and cooks all of her catering orders. Mony's cousin, who works at the restaurant that she rents from, helps her cook the food and she also has four other people that she hires for a certain amount of hours for catering orders that help her with food prep and delivery. But for Mony, her personalized, hands-on cooking classes have become the most exciting part of the business. She's able to tell her story to small groups of people who really care about her food and are interested in learning where it comes from.
Just like her mother's restaurant, all of the food on Queen Cobra Thai's catering menu are recipes that Mony's grandmother created. However, Mony tries to add her own style or twist to each dish, which sometimes ends up happening out of necessity when ingredients that she would typically have access to in Thailand (herbs, spices, palm sugar) aren't available in the U.S. In some cases, she has to adjust the recipe altogether because she can't make a substitute with a different ingredient. Although changing her grandmother's recipes is hard for Mony, she's used to customizing dishes for her clients that have allergies or dietary restrictions and is able to accommodate those changes. The toughest part for her though is trying to get her customers without dietary restrictions or allergies to stop limiting themselves with food that seems unusual to them. For Mony, Thai food is all about fresh herbs, unique ingredients and balancing flavors, and she wishes that more people were able to experience that and enjoy it rather than questioning it. She cares so deeply about each dish and what she's putting into it that she wants every customer's experience to be as authentic as possible so they can really understand the food and the culture behind it.
Food and beverage is an extremely hard industry to work in but doing so has allowed Mony to finally figure out what she loves to do and she's excited every morning when she wakes up to teach a cooking class or prep food for a catering order. The reason she started Queen Cobra Thai was because of her grandmother and her family and her desire to share their story through the food that she creates. And although she hasn't been able to yet, Mony still has her sights set on opening up a brick and mortar location within a year or two and continuing her family's tradition. However, since running a restaurant is so expensive and she doesn't want to risk all of the money that she's earned in her food business, she's planning to open a dessert shop where customers can pair Thai desserts with tea. Not only is this Mony's goal because she likes sweets, she's also realistic and recognizes that a smaller-scale operation will provide her a better chance of success in the long run. As Mony knows, once you find something that you're passionate about, you just keep doing it, no matter what.
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Google Is Cheap, eBay Is Not
Google may seem like a pricey stock and eBay the bargain, but it may be the other way around.
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It was back in February when Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) passed eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) to command the market-cap crown of Internet stocks. They were passing ships at the $50 billion buoy. They have continued going separate ways, with Google now commanding a market capitalization closer to $60 billion while eBay starts off the week as a humbled $42 billion corporation.
When I compared the two stocks back in February, it appeared as if the more seasoned eBay offered the best value looking back, but Google was the cheaper play going forward. Adding more fuel to that disparity were last week's earnings reports. The leading online auction marketplace raised its 2005 profit forecast to a range of $0.71 to $0.73 a share, but that was still lower than what analysts were expecting for the year. Meanwhile, Google has Wall Street revising its targets higher after its third consecutive market thumper.
Do you think there is no way that Google can possibly be cheaper than eBay? I know more than a few of you may be thinking that Google's valuation is wacky and that eBay is now the bargain. I beg to differ. I will even show my math.
Now that eBay, which is a Motley Fool Stock Advisor recommendation, has made its latest guidance clear, we can value the company based on this year's earnings multiple. The stock is at $31.51, well off the price that it was fetching when it traded just shy of a split-adjusted $60 as the year began. At the current price, eBay is trading between 43 and 44 times this year's projected profitability.
Then we have Google. The company earned $1.29 a share this past quarter. While one can argue that certain favorable tax charges inflated that figure or that stock option compensation deflated it, the difference is pennies in either direction.
Now, Google does not provide earnings guidance. That goes a long way toward explaining why Wall Street has underestimated the company's earnings ability, by a lot. Yet we do know that this is not a seasonal business. Sequential gains should continue as long as the company's bread-and-butter paid-search business proves resilient. But let's assume that $1.29 is as good as it gets. That's highly unlikely, but if all Google does is ape those results for the rest of the year, it will have earned $5.16 a share for all of 2005 -- or a forward multiple of 42. Yes, cheaper than eBay.
In Google, you have a company whose earnings grew more than fivefold, accompanied with a 93% advance in revenue. For eBay, it was a 28% gain in net income while the top line rose by 36%.
If you think this is just a case of the smaller company simply having an easier case for growing faster, think again. Consider that eBay earned $256 million for the period while Google came back with $369 million. What about real earnings, you say? Well, for the March quarter, eBay produced $289.4 million in free cash flow. Google? It racked up $387 million in free cash flow.
Google's potentially fatal flaw -- its dependence on search advertising -- can't be emphasized enough. But Google's lapping eBay in the market cap space in recent months was no accident.
Google has passed by other companies, too, in its brief publicly traded life. Weeks before Google came public with a proposed market cap of just over $20 billion, shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) peaked at $23 billion. Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) has been a healthy performer, but at $50 billion, it, too, found Google flashing the high beams in its rearview mirror. So, yes, Google is pretty fast, but it's earned the right to live large in the passing lane.
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Bumping the Dock: A Story of God's Grace and an 18-Wheeler
Annette Wilcox
I am an unlikely person to be a long-haul trucker. People comment that I look more like a librarian or an English teacher than a trucker. And I have been both. Trucking is physically a little too hard for me. Perhaps for this reason, my life as a trucker has been one of radical dependence on God. The truck runs, after all, by grace, and I'm on the road only as long as God wants me to be. I have truly experienced that God's mercies are new every morning and are inexhaustible. He always helps! That's what this story is about.
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She Drives Trucks Staff, "'Bumping the Dock': A woman driver's perspective of OTR," Trucker News. (October 20, 2020). Click here to read the review.
"Long Paul Haul" Marhoefer, "Faces of the Road: Annette Wilcox, a fresh perspective on life OTR," Overdrive. (October 19, 2020). Click here to read the review.
"Having read the book twice has given me a new perspective I would otherwise never have had. I would say that this book is a MUST READ for new folks looking to drive a truck who have no previous experience with trucks or drivers. It has given me insight into how a 'newbie' sees things and will arm me with the tools I need to be a better mentor and advisor. Thank you, thank you to Annette for writing this. The book is informative and takes you down the road with her in a way that is engaging and educational." –Idella M. Hansen, 50-year trucker, 2017 Citizen Driver Honoree, Real Women in Trucking, Founding Board Member
"Bumping the Dock will first surprise you — because it's much more than a book about trucking — then delight you. Part travelogue, part diary, this book is also a revelation of Annette's making the best out of a lousy hand. Readers are drawn smoothly and effortlessly into the world of learning to drive a 'big rig' by the author's making them feel as if they're sitting down with an old friend to catch up over a cup of coffee, only to find that in the end they really do admire her spunk and stamina and good judgment all the more." — Dcn. Chris Sandner, assistant to Bishop Barron
"In Bumping the Dock, a Story of God's Grace and an 18-Wheeler, Annette Wilcox details the many difficulties of learning to safely operate the largest vehicle on the highway while demonstrating her courage, tenacity and relentless faith. Her tale is one of overcoming challenges while refusing to bend her character or sacrifice her spirituality to succeed in a male-dominated industry that isn't always welcoming to women or Christians. Best of all, she sets a lofty example by her reliance on her Savior for day-to-day accomplishments, regardless of her own considerable abilities." – Cliff Abbott, 35-year industry veteran, Special Correspondent to The Trucker newspaper and author of Chronicles of an American Trucker: Which Way is the Road to Happiness?
"Bumping the Dock is a fascinating, amusing, and deeply personal account of how this highly educated woman ended up behind the wheel of a semi. She brings her insights to the job of the over-the-road trucker, relating her experiences in a world that is all around us but about which most of us know too little. This book brings you along as she learns new skills, visits new places, overcomes challenges both personal and professional, and grows as a person. If you've always wondered what a trucker's life was like, ride beside Annette Wilcox in Bumping the Dock. It's a journey you'll never forget." — Roger Thomas, Author of, among others, The Last Ugly Person, The Accidental Marriage, and From Afar.
"Annette Wilcox gives Jack Kerouac a run for his money in this story of how God's grace works in the cab of an 18-wheeler on American highways and byways." – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of the forthcoming The Narrative Spirituality of Dante's Divine Comedy
"Bumping the Dock, about a middle-aged woman becoming a semi-truck driver, is a rollicking book to read. Why would someone like me who took 4 driving tests before passing in a small car even enjoy such an account? Because, as well as being a humorous story, it is also a Christian parable about courage in life-style shifts and an insightful look at relationships between women and men, in this case our heroine and a male truck-driving trainer. With every chapter I felt more courage to think outside the box on my own personal decisions – that with God many impossible things could be possible!" — Dr. Ronda Chervin, contributor and co-author with Sebastian Mahfood of Catholic Realism: A Framework for the Refutation of Atheism and the Evangelization of Atheists
Annette F. Wilcox, MA, is a mother of four and grandmother of five. She has been a translator, librarian, ESL instructor and has taught school in three countries, the last being as a lay missionary with the Holy Spirit Fathers in Moshi, Tanzania, East Africa. A family friend once remarked that he admired the way she kept "recycling" herself. The most recent recycle is twelve years in the trucking world where she has driven 1.1 million miles in a semi, hauling heavy loads of all sorts of things on the roads of all forty-eight contiguous United States and six of the provinces of Canada.
Annette may be reached for webinars and book store signings at bumpingthedock@gmail.com
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Advances in the Care of Adult Patients With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Optimism Tempered by Reality
Authors: Joseph C. Alvarnas MD and Patrick A. Brown MD
https://doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2016.0085
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Outcomes for patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have improved dramatically over the past 4 decades. Overall 5-year relative survival rates for patients with ALL have increased from 40.6% during the period between 1975 and 1977 to 70.7% for patients treated between 2006 and 2012.1 A series of advances in the treatment of childhood ALL—from single-agent chemotherapy in the 1950s to the use of risk-adapted therapeutic strategies—have helped to drive improvements in care and outcomes for patients of all ages (Figure 1).
The foundation for improvements in survival outcomes for patients with ALL is data generated from rigorous, iterative clinical trials. Pediatric clinical trials, in particular, have been extraordinarily successful in identifying treatment strategies associated with higher cure rates. Part of what has made pediatric clinical trials so central to advances in the care of patients with ALL is that this patient population is able to access care through a coordinated network of linked clinical and research sites; unlike adult patients with cancer, approximately 90% of children with cancer receive care at participating Children's Oncology Group sites. It would be difficult to overstate the importance that this systematic approach to care delivery has had in advancing ALL treatment outcomes.2 Childhood ALL therefore provides an excellent paradigm for the rapid and successful evolution of the standard of care for a blood cancer.
Although the improvement in outcomes has been impressive, we are at the threshold of an even more dramatic period of change for patients with ALL. This exciting era has been facilitated by our increasing ability to harness genetic, molecular, genomic, and proteomic data to tailor therapeutic strategies for individual patients, exemplifying the extraordinary potential of "precision medicine." The use of targeted therapeutic agents, such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) for patients with Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)–positive ALL, and risk-adapted care strategies that leverage assessments of minimal residual disease (MRD) to enhance decision-making regarding
Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: dramatic improvement in patient outcomes over time. Abbreviation: CNS, central nervous system.
Citation: Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network J Natl Compr Canc Netw 14, 7; 10.6004/jnccn.2016.0085
the necessity for allogeneic hematopoietic transplantation presage a future in which the full breadth of leukemia diagnostics will be used to design personalized therapeutic strategies for every patient with ALL.
Advances in patient risk assessment are also complemented by a rapidly growing therapeutic armamentarium. Beyond the foundation of cytotoxic chemotherapy and the combined cytotoxic and immunologic effects achievable through allogeneic transplantation, multiple new classes of antileukemia drugs and cellular therapeutics are fast becoming part of our ALL care strategy. These include therapeutics targeted at the expanding list of tumor-specific gene mutations and rearrangements that characterize the novel "Ph-like" subset of ALL, including ABL, JAK2, JAK-STAT, CRLF2, and RAS.3 Inhibitors of many of these targets are under investigation for patients with Ph-like ALL, a subset of ALL that is ineffectively treated by existing therapeutic regimens. Patients with ALL are also likely to benefit in the coming years from the expanding array of immune-oncologic agents. The recent reports of efficacy of the monoclonal antibody rituximab, the immunoconjugate inotuzumab, the bispecific T-cell engaging (BiTE) antibody blinatumomab, and various chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell products foreshadow the potential for immune-oncologic agents to change the treatment paradigm for patients with ALL. As these and other trial results are published, our understanding of how best to treat patients with high-risk, persistent, and relapsed ALL is likely to change profoundly.
Inasmuch as there is cause for significant optimism regarding future treatments for patients with ALL, this optimism must be tempered by the reality that not all patients will be able to reap the benefit of these advances. A large part of what has made the care of pediatric patients with ALL a success story is the system of care that has allowed patients to benefit equitably from advances in treatment technology and access to the requisite clinical expertise. Unlike most pediatric patients, however, adult patients cannot avail themselves of a single, coordinated care and clinical trials network. Instead, adults diagnosed with ALL face significant challenges in navigating a care system that remains highly balkanized and difficult to navigate, making access to innovative diagnostic and therapeutic technologies elusive. Despite expansion of insurance coverage to many previously uninsured patients, gaps within the coverage system may actually prevent many patients from receiving the expert care they require. Narrow health care networks, in which patients are limited regarding which hospitals and physicians may provide their care, frequently exclude academic specialty centers or ALL centers of excellence.4 In a 2015 article reviewing the impact of narrow networks on access to expert cancer care, the author noted that, "Of 19 nationally recognized comprehensive cancer centers surveyed, only 4 said they were in all the insurance networks on their state exchange."5 Despite the fact that a key factor for the successes of pediatric ALL outcomes has been based on access to a robust system of care, many adult patients are disenfranchised from benefitting from this essential resource.
Beyond health care infrastructural barriers, the high cost of targeted therapeutic agents and the growing patient financial burden associated with these costs imposes another set of barriers to patients accessing effective antileukemic care. As The Washington Post recently noted, "the $10,000-a-month cancer drug has become the new normal, to the dismay of physicians and patients who increasingly face the burden of financial toxicity."6 As health care systems grapple with the questionable economic sustainability of administering prohibitively expensive pharmaceuticals, patients are burdened with egregious costs as they shoulder the life-changing copayment and co-insurance bills associated with these agents—bills that are the individual patient's financial responsibility.7,8 The lack of reimbursement parity between oral and injectable pharmaceutical agents makes this burden even worse for patients receiving targeted oral agents.9
As we advance toward a future of precision medicine solutions for patients with ALL, we need to ensure that this lofty vision is not undermined by the prosaic limitations of infrastructural and financial barriers imposed by our often-disorganized systems of care. The challenge that patients with ALL face is not one that can be remediated by science alone. It requires us as physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and health care professionals to become advocates not only for our patients, but also for systems-based change that can ensure that every patient diagnosed with ALL can benefit fully from the breadth of scientific knowledge and innovative therapeutic alternatives.
The IOM has characterized the 6 key characteristics of highly effective health care, and include care that is safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, and patient-centered.10 If we are ever to achieve care delivery for every patient with ALL who meets the IOM aims of care, then we will require the use of support tools, such as the NCCN Guidelines, to ensure that all patients can benefit equitably, sustainably, and transparently from the rapidly evolving wealth of ALL therapeutic innovation. Clinical practice guidelines not only may help practitioners master the rapidly evolving armamentarium of leukemia care innovations, but also may constitute an important set of tools for achieving more efficient, economically sustainable delivery of leukemia care in the process.11
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Joseph C. Alvarnas, MD, is Director of Value Based Analytics and Associate Professor in the Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Alvarnas earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. His postgraduate training included a residency in internal medicine and fellowships in hematology and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford University Medical Center.
Dr. Alvarnas is the Co-Chair of the NCCN Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Panel. He serves as the chair of the American Society of Hematology committee on practice. He has previously served as a member of the National Quality Forum cancer endorsement maintenance steering committee. He is the current Editor-in-Chief for Evidence-Based Oncology.
The ideas and viewpoints expressed in this editorial are those of the author and do not necessarily represent any policy, position, or program of NCCN.
Patrick A. Brown, MD, is Associate Professor of Oncology and Pediatrics in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of the Pediatric Leukemia Program of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Brown received a Marshall Scholarship to Oxford University in England where he earned a master's degree in philosophy and politics. He attended medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Brown completed his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at Johns Hopkins before joining the Hopkins faculty. His research is focused on developing novel, molecularly targeted treatments for children and adolescents with leukemia. He serves on both of the leukemia steering committees in the Children's Oncology Group, and co-chairs the NCCN Guidelines Panel for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
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