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Thanks Oncology Data Advisor for the chance to talk about the new FDA approvals for CAR-T therapy in myeloma #MMsm, and UW Medicine Montlake 8SE nurses for letting me borrow their lounge for an interview while on service 🙏 CAR-T is an excellent option for 2nd line, but not a requirement!

🎉Finally published🎉 Development and Validation of a Prediction Model of Outcome After B-Cell Maturation Antigen-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma Journal of Clinical Oncology #mmsm Open access ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JC…

Today, I became the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden-Harris administration over its policies in Gaza. Here is my resignation letter:

A panel of experts on multiple myeloma discuss the rationale for CAR T-cell therapy, highlighting BCMA as a target and treatment administration practices. #mmsm | Saad Z. Usmani MD MBA FACP 🇺🇸🇵🇰 Rahul Banerjee, MD, FACP Yi Lin cancernetwork.com/view/the-ratio…

And my fellowship family Lukas Delasos, MinhTri Nguyen, MD (he/him), Danai Dima , Tom Curley, MD , Nerea Lopetegui-Lia, MD, #DrBrooks (missed you Haikoo Shah )

Israel bombed Rafah displacement camps with 2,000-pound bombs over 60 times in 48 hours after ICJ orders. It’s not war. It’s genocide.

Dr Jonathan Wall shares preclinical development of AT-02, a pan-amyloid binding peptide which promotes immune-mediated fibril clearance The International Society Of Amyloidosis #amyloidosis #ISA2024

IT IS REALLY BAD IN RAFAH!

Thank you, Dr. Abraham. Congratulations to all my co-fellows!

NON STOP BOMBING IN GAZA

🚨survey from our Collegue Dr. Raza a myeloma specialist at Cleveland Clinic with a goal to evaluate variability in NDMM therapy. This survey is simple & less than 5 minutes. If you treat MM please fill the survey. #MedEd #medtwitter #Myeloma #mmsm #ASCO24 USMIRC News #USMIRC

We had a blast at the #ASCO24 Greek dinner 🇬🇷 Thank you so much Petros Grivas for this 10-year tradition! To many more! Yia mas 🥂 Pavlos Msaouel Amanda Nizam, MD Danai Dima Hedyeh Ebrahimi Renee Maria Saliby Sumanta K. Pal, MD, FASCO Shilpa Gupta Tian Zhang, MD, MHS Nazli Dizman Tom Powles Bora Lim, MD ASCO

Our Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center #MMsm case, now out in eJHaem Journal: If a patient with POEMS has their VEGF rise from 182 to 740 in two months without any worsened neuropathy, would you add dara? We did… but it turns out this likely was a fluA infection all along! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jh…

A thread about academic moderation #MedTwitter While many may not realize this but there is ongoing fear/avoidance from new graduates to join academia in the field of hematology and medical oncology due to excessive trespassing of personal/family time We can/should do better 🧵

Please join me in congratulating and welcoming Lukas Delasos new member of Cleveland Clinic Thoracic Oncology Program and member of oncology team at South Pointe Cleveland Clinic MD Nathan A. Pennell MD, PhD, FASCO CCF Hematology Oncology Fellows Cleveland Clinic IM !!

So happy to see in print our collaborative effort on PNH and thrombosis in Blood Journal !! 👉 ashpublications.org/blood/article-…. Very grateful for the commentary too!!! 👉doi.org/10.1182/blood.…

Final reminder: submit your abstract to #ASH24 ASH, for 85$ non refundable per abstract. I know people who send >5 abstracts which is one month salary in many areas of the world. Thats not inclusion and diversity, thats pure exclusivity...

With recent updates on CASSIOPEIA and PERSEUS data at #EHA24 and #ASCO24, here are some of my takeaways on questions that have frequently come up in the clinic recently 🧵

Hot off Press: Safety and Efficacy of #CART in #RRMM w sec #AL #Amyloidosis led by resident Cleveland Clinic ➡️Responses were rapid and deep ➡️No excessive or ⬆️Gr CRS ➡️Presence of amyloid should not be🛑🚧 CART pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39189919/ #mmsm #MedTwitter #UnmetNeed eJHaem Journal