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Mikkael Sekeres
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Editorial Board, Blood Cancer Journal
Miami
Beats
Biography
Mikkael Sekeres is Professor of Medicine with Tenure and Chief of the Division of Hematology at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He earned a medical degree and a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr Sekeres completed his postgraduate training at Harvard University, finishing an internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in hematology-oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He is chair of the medical advisory board of the Aplastic Anemia and Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) International Foundation, and formerly chaired the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee of the F.D.A. Dr Sekeres’ research focuses on patients with MDS and older adults with acute myeloid leukemia, and he has been the national and international primary study investigator on dozens of phase I/II/III trials. He is the author or co-author of over 450 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 650 scientific abstracts. He was the inaugural editor-in-chief of the ASH Clinical News magazine; he is on the editorial board of several journals; has written over 100 essays for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Slate, and The Hill, among others; and has authored 8 books, including When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia (The MIT Press 2020) and Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public’s Trust (The MIT Press 2022).
Cancer Trials Fda Cancer Epidemiology
Business, Banking
Content
By Fengyao Yan, Aristeidis G Telonis, Qin Yang, Limin Jiang, Francine E Garrett-Bakelman, Mikkael Sekeres, Valeria Santini, Michele Ceccarelli, Neha Goel, Liliana Garcia-Martinez, Lluis Morey, Maria Figueroa, Yan Guo| Science Magazine Verified
By Mikkael Sekeres| Australian Financial Review Verified Apr 1, 2025 – 7.53am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? My patients – and my family and friends – often ask me what they can do to reduce their risk of cancer. I’m an oncologist and a cancer epidemiologist, which means I investigate patterns and causes of cancers.
By Mikkael Sekeres| New Zealand Herald Verified Does casual drinking increase the risk of cancer? Photo / 123RFAs more people choose to drink less, here’s what to know about the research on alcohol and cancer risk. My patients – and my family and friends – often ask me what they can do to reduce their risk of cancer. I’m an oncologist and a cancer epidemiologist, which means I investigate patterns and causes of cancers.
Company Info
Blood Cancer Journal
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
'+1 201-748-6000