Committee on ѻýal Affairs
Committee Roster
Chair
Jennifer
R. Brown, MD, PhD
('24)
Vice Chair
Amy
E. DeZern, MD
('24)
Appointed Members
Juan
Pablo Alderuccio, MD
('26)
Marc
J. Braunstein, MD, PhD
('25)
Nicholas
R. Burwick, MD
('25)
Shruti Chaturvedi, MBBS
('25)
Faith Davies, MD
('24)
Alex George, MD, PhD
('27)
Nobuko Hijiya, MD
('24)
Margaret Kasner, MD
('26)
Kah Poh (Melissa) Loh, MD
('27)
Martha
P. Mims, MD
('27)
Ashok Pai, MD
('27)
Nicki Panoskaltsis, MD, PhD
('25)
Iberia
R Sosa, MD, PhD
('26)
Ex Officio Members
Belinda Avalos, MD
('25)
-
Mohandas Narla, DSc
('24)
-
Robert Negrin, MD
('26)
-
Liaisons
Hanny Al-Samkari, MD
('24)
-
Jennifer
R. Brown, MD, PhD
('28)
-
Cynthia
E. Dunbar, MD
('24)
-
John Koreth, MD, MBBS, PhD, DPhil
('24)
-
Vishal Kukreti, MD, FRCP, MSc
('28)
-
Rakhi
P. Naik, MD
('24)
-
Anand
A. Patel, MD
('25)
-
Brady
L. Stein, MD
('25)
-
Staff Liaison
Ana Maria Velarde, BS
Committee Mandate
The Committee on ѻýal Affairs is responsible for overseeing the ASH continuing medical education (CME) program (including educational meetings and enduring materials) and ensuring compliance with the “Core Accreditation Criteria” set forth by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical ѻý (ACCME). Members of this committee may not be employees or owners of Ineligible Companies, as defined by the ACCME.
A major part of the Committee on ѻýal Affairs’ responsibility is to evaluate the content and quality of the ASH annual meeting as well as the Friday Satellite Symposia; each committee member is expected to evaluate at least two sessions for the Real Time ѻý Program Peer Review. Members of the Committee on ѻýal Affairs are prohibited from participating in the Friday Satellite Symposia. The committee’s assessments are shared with the ѻý Program Co-Chairs and then the Annual Meeting Accredited ѻý Committee. The Committee on ѻýal Affairs takes an advisory role in the planning of the ѻý Program of the annual meeting with the selection of individual session chairs resting with the current year’s ѻý Program Co-Chairs and approval by the Annual Meeting Accredited ѻý Committee. The Chair of the Committee on ѻýal Affairs assists in the preparation of materials for the re-accreditation application to the ACCME (every four to six years) for the ASH CME program.
The Committee on ѻýal Affairs – along with the Publications Committee, Program Committee, and Annual Meeting Accredited ѻý Committee – has input into the development of Hematology, the ASH ѻý Program, and makes recommendations regarding its distribution. In addition, the Committee on ѻýal Affairs serves in an advisory role for other educational programs and materials including small meetings and educational publications (ASH Image Bank and ASH Self-Assessment Program).
The Committee on ѻýal Affairs structure includes the following liaison positions:
· Secretary
· Current year’s ѻý Program Co-Chairs
· Executive Editor, Hematology
· Member, Committee on Practice – term congruent with term on parent committee
· Senior and Associate Executive Editors of in-production edition of ASH-SAP
Members of the Committee on ѻýal Affairs are required to attend two meetings per year: one held virtually in January, and one held in the summer at ASH Headquarters.
The Chair of the Committee on ѻýal Affairs serves as a liaison member of the Program Committee and is expected to attend the joint meetings of that committee. Members of the Committee on ѻýal Affairs serve as liaison members of the Committee on Communications, Publications Committee, and Committee on Quality and are expected to attend the meetings of those committees.
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