Dr. Sekeres is Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Leukemia Program, Department of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, in Ohio. He earned a medical degree and a master’s in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Sekeres completed his postgraduate training at Harvard University, finishing an internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in hematology-oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He is co-chair of the medical advisory board of the Aplastic Anemia and Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) International Foundation, and serves on the scientific review committee.

An invited speaker at numerous meetings, grand rounds, and conferences, Dr. Sekeres is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Hematology, the Southwest Oncology Group – Leukemia Committee, and the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee of the FDA. His current research focuses on patients with MDS and older adults with acute myeloid leukemia, and he is national primary study investigator on several phase I/II trials. Dr. Sekeres has been active for years in the continuing education of students, physicians, and patients in regard to cancer. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 articles and abstracts published in leading journals, such as Blood, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Cancer, and Leukemia; he is the co-author of 3 books; and he is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, in addition to being the Clinical Advisory Editor of Hematology/Oncology for the Oncology Times.

Dr. Steensma is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a consulting physician at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and a faculty member in the leukemia group at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. 
Originally from Midland Park, NJ, Dr. Steensma received his medical degree from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, following undergraduate work in physics and astronomy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. He completed an internal medicine internship and residency and a combined hematology-oncology fellowship in the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, MN, and is currently board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine, hematology, and medical oncology. 

Following the completion of formal training, Dr. Steensma spent several years as a visiting research scholar in the Molecular Haematology Unit of the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK, investigating the molecular genetics of myelodysplastic syndromes. He then joined the consulting staff of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, where he spent 5 years as a clinician-investigator in the Division of Hematology, as the Associate Fellowship Program Director for Hematology, and as an Associate Professor in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. 
Dr. Steensma is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the American Society of Hematology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the European Hematology Association, and the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He is a member of the editorial board of 5 journals, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Leukemia Research, and Haematologica, and has more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Blood, Lancet, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Leukemia. His laboratory and clinical research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute and by several philanthropic groups. His primary clinical and research focus is myelodysplastic syndromes, and he maintains an active interest in non-malignant hematology, especially disorders of red cells and therapy of cancer-associated anemia.

Dr. Koffman earned his medical degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He then completed his family practice residency from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, and his psychiatry fellowship at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Koffman has taught at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, and is a Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, where he also completed his masters in medical education. He is board-certified in family practice in the United States and Canada.

Dr. Koffman helped pioneer the shared medical appointment in Los Angeles County. He is on staff at St. Jude Medical Center and has been in family practice serving the same community of Diamond Bar for more than 30 years. He loves to teach, lecturing internationally for CME to thousands of colleagues on topics of importance to improve patient outcomes in primary care. He has helped raise awareness of and funds for bone marrow and hematopoietic stem cell donors, as he himself is alive today because of a transplant from an unrelated donor. His blog (http://bkoffman.blogspot.com) is a source of support to thousands with serious medical problems.