Committee on Educational Affairs
Committee Roster
Chair
Amy E. DeZern, MD
('26)
Appointed Members
Juan Pablo Alderuccio, MD
('26)
Marc J. Braunstein, MD, PhD
('29)
Nicholas R. Burwick, MD
('29)
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)
Usha Perepu, MD, MBBS
('29)
Iberia R Sosa, MD, PhD
('26)
Tzu-Fei Wang, MD, MPH
('28)
Nidia Zapata, MD
('29)
Ex Officio Members
Cindy E. Dunbar, MD
('27)
-
Alison Loren, MD, MSCE
('28)
-
Robert Negrin, MD
('26)
-
Liaisons
Maureen Okam Achebe, MD, MPH
('26)
-
Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD
('28)
-
Vishal Kukreti, MD, MSc, FRCP
('28)
-
Lori S. Muffly, MD, MS
('27)
-
Anand A. Patel, MD
('28)
-
Charlotte M Story, MD
('26)
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Katherine J. Walsh, MD, MEd
('28)
-
Robert Zeiser, MD, PhD
('26)
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Staff Liaison
Jennifer Albee
Committee Mandate
The Committee on Educational Affairs is responsible for guiding and advancing the ASH educational mission across the full hematology continuum. This includes strategic oversight of both accredited and non-accredited educational initiatives for practicing clinicians, PhD trainees, advanced practice providers, basic scientists, translational investigators, and clinician scientists, ensuring that the ASH educational mission and programming reflect the breadth of modern hematology—from fundamental discovery to clinical application.
The Committee on Educational Affairs serves as a key liaison to ASH’s workforce development and pipeline training efforts, advising on alignment between educational programming and initiatives aimed at strengthening the hematology workforce. The committee provides input to ensure that ASH educational offerings support recruitment, retention, and advancement of providers and scientists at all stages, including those pursuing careers in basic and translational hematology research.
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 subsequently with the Annual Meeting Accredited Education Committee. The Committee on Educational Affairs takes an advisory role in planning the Education Program of the annual meeting, including ensuring appropriate representation of basic science, translational research, and PhD‑relevant content. Selection of individual session chairs rests with the current year’s Education Program Co-Chairs, with approval by the Annual Meeting Accredited Education Committee.
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. The Committee on Educational Affairs also serves in an advisory role for other educational programs and materials including small meetings and educational publications – the ASH Image Bank and the ASH Self-Assessment Program (ASH-SAP) – with explicit attention to ensuring excellence and accessibility across basic, translational, and clinical domains.
The Committee on Educational Affairs collaborates closely with the Hematology Education Roadmap and Curriculum Subcommittee under its purview to ensure coherence and strategic alignment across ASH’s long‑term educational priorities. In addition, the committee provides guidance on the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the ASH Learning Management System to support high‑quality, accessible, and modern educational delivery.
In addition, the Committee on Educational Affairs oversees the ASH continuing medical education (CME) program (including educational meetings and enduring materials) and ensures compliance with the Core Accreditation Criteria established 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. 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 structure includes the following liaison positions:
· Secretary
· Current year’s Education Program Co-Chairs
· Executive Editor, Hematology
· Member, Committee on Practice – term congruent with service on parent committee
· Member, Committee on Training – term congruent with service on parent committee
· Member, Trainee Council – term congruent with service 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 in-person at ASH Headquarters in the summer.
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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