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Committee on Educational Affairs

Committee Roster

Chair
Amy E. DeZern, MD  ('26)

Appointed Members
Juan Pablo Alderuccio, MD  ('26)
Marc J. Braunstein, MD, PhD  ('25)
Nicholas R. Burwick, MD  ('25)
Shruti Chaturvedi, MBBS  ('25)
Alex George, MD, PhD  ('27)
Andres Gomez-De Leon, MD  ('28)
Margaret Kasner, MD, MSc  ('26)
Richard Jirui Lin, MD, PhD  ('28)
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)
Tzu-Fei Wang, MD, MPH  ('28)

Ex Officio Members
Belinda Avalos, MD  ('25)  - President
Cynthia E. Dunbar, MD  ('27)  - Vice President
Robert Negrin, MD  ('26)  - President-Elect

Liaisons
Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD  ('28)  - Secretary
Payal C. Desai, MD  ('25)  - 2025 Education Program Co-Chair
Vishal Kukreti, MD, MSc, FRCP  ('28)  - Member, Committee on Practice
Lori S. Muffly, MD  ('27)  - Editor, Hematology
Anand A. Patel, MD  ('25)  - Associate Executive Editor, ASH-SAP 9
Rayne H. Rouce, MD  ('25)  - 2025 Education Program Co-Chair
Brady L. Stein, MD  ('25)  - Senior Executive Editor, ASH-SAP 9

Staff Liaison
Ana Maria Velarde, BS

Committee Mandate

The Committee on Educational 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 Education (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 Educational 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 Education Program Peer Review. Members of the Committee on Educational Affairs are prohibited from participating in the Friday Satellite Symposia. The committee’s assessments are shared with the Education Program Co-Chairs and then the Annual Meeting Accredited Education Committee. The Committee on Educational Affairs takes an advisory role in the planning of the Education Program of the annual meeting with the selection of individual session chairs resting with the current year’s Education Program Co-Chairs and approval by the Annual Meeting Accredited Education Committee. The Chair of the Committee on Educational 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 Educational Affairs – along with the Publications Committee, Program Committee, and Annual Meeting Accredited Education Committee – has input into the development of Hematology, the ASH Education Program, and makes recommendations regarding its distribution. In addition, the Committee on Educational 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 Educational Affairs structure includes the following liaison positions:

·         Secretary

·         Current year’s Education 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 Educational 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 Educational 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 Educational Affairs serve as liaison members of the (1) Committee on Communications; (2) Publications Committee; (3) Committee on Quality; (4) Subcommittee on Dissemination and Implementation Science; (5) Subcommittee on Precision Medicine; (6) Subcommittee on Quality Improvement Education and Training; and (7) Task Force on PhD Careers in Hematology and are expected to attend the meetings of those committees. Additionally, the structure of the CME Accreditation Committee, Continuing Certification Task Force, and Well-Being and Resilience Working Group include current members of the Committee on Educational Affairs.

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