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Disclosures Grant/Research support: Celgene Corporation; Johnson & Johnson; Sanofi; Honoraria: Amgen, Inc.; Celgene Corporation; Johnson & Johnson; Sanofi.
Affiliations Chief, Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service Melvin Berlin Family Chair in Myeloma Research Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Professor of Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College New York, New York
Dr. Sergio A. Giralt is Chief Attending Physician of the Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service in the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Giralt’s clinical and research activities include stem cell transplantation for patients with blood disorders and improving treatments for older patients who have acute and chronic leukemia. He has published and presented extensively on these topics at prestigious meetings and in journals. Dr. Giralt has served as the principal investigator for a number of clinical trials that examine new treatment approaches for multiple myeloma and other blood cancers. Dr. Giralt is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Hematology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the North American Society of Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation, the International Society of Hematotherapy and Graft Engineering, the International Society of Haematology, and the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Giralt earned an MD from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas and completed a residency at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio and a fellowship in hematology/oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.