Dr John Mascarenhas is a Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) and a member of the Tisch Cancer Institute in New York City. Dr Mascarenhas is the Director of Center of Excellence in Blood Cancers and Myeloid Disorders, Director of the Adult Leukemia Program, and Leader of Clinical Research within the Myeloproliferative Disorders Program at Mount Sinai.  As a clinical investigator in malignant hematology with a focus in translational research involving MPNs, he is primarily responsible for the clinical trials portion of the Myeloproliferative Disorders Program at ISMMS. Dr Mascarenhas is also the Principal Investigator (PI) of the clinical trials project within the National Cancer Institute sponsored Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Research Consortium (MPN-RC). He has served as PI or Study Chair of multiple investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored early and late phase clinical trials evaluating innovative approaches to the treatment of MPNs and secondary acute leukemia. 

Bernd Jilma, MD, is a Full Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the Medical University of Vienna. His scientific interests encompass coagulation research, anaphylaxis, rare diseases, biologics, and vaccines. Since 2001, Dr. Jilma has been a principal investigator in phase I, II, and III clinical trials, including multinational studies. He has published over 525 peer-reviewed articles in esteemed journals such as NEJM, Lancet, Lancet Infect Dis, JACC, Blood, Circulation, and Am J Respir Crit Care Med.

Dr. Kristen Sanfilippo is a Hematologist in the Division of Hematology at Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis and a Staff Physician in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at John Cochran Veterans Administration Medical Center St. Louis, USA. She is a co-chair of the International Society on thrombosis and Haemostasis Scientific and Standardization Committee for Hemostasis and Malignancy.  In addition to clinical training in hematology/oncology, she earned a Masters in Population Health Sciences at Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine in 2012. Since completion of her Master’s degree, Dr. Sanfilippo has focused her research on health outcomes in patients with venous thromboembolism with a focus on cancer-associated thrombosis. Her research group developed and validated a risk prediction model, IMPEDE VTE, to identify patients with multiple myeloma starting chemotherapy at high-risk of venous thromboembolism. In addition, through a collaboration with a research team at University of Washington School of Medicine, they developed the SAVED score to predict risk of venous thromboembolism in multiple myeloma patients receiving an immunomodulatory agent. Both IMPEDE VTE and the SAVED score are recommended as the risk prediction models of choice by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) clinical guidelines. Her clinical and research interests continue to focus on venous thromboembolism and cancer-associated thrombosis with her current work focused on understanding risk-factors for anticoagulant-related bleeding in patients with cancer.

Erik Aerts is a Nurse Manager at University Hospital Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland, where he leads the nursing operations in the Department of Medicine Oncology and Haematology. He pioneered the first haematology-oncology nursing course in Switzerland, providing nurses with the opportunity to specialize in haematology and oncology. With 30 years of nursing experience across diverse settings and specialties, his focus has been on haematology and haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).

Mr. Aerts also serves as President of several professional groups, including the Haematology Nurses & Healthcare Professionals Group and the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Nurses Group.