Dr. Sekeres is associate professor of medicine and Director of the Leukemia Program, Department of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders with the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Ohio. He earned a medical degree and a master’s in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He 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. A frequent speaker and presenter for AAMDSIF patient and family conferences and webinars, and webcasts and videos for both patients and health professionals, he is co-chair of the AAMDSIF medical advisory board (MAB), and also co-chair of the MDS Clinical Research Consortium.