Alice S. Mims, MD

Dr. Alice S. Mims is the Acute Leukemia Clinical Research Clinical Research: A type of research that involves individual persons or a group of people. There are three types of clinical research. Patient-oriented research includes clinical trials which test how a drug, medical device, or treatment approach works in people. Epidemiology or behavioral studies look at the… Director and Associate Professor in the Division of Hematology at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James. Dr. Mims is a hematologist hematologist: (hee-muh-TOL-uh-jist) A doctor who specializes in treating blood diseases and disorders of blood producing organs. who specializes in treating patients with acute and chronic myeloid diseases, particularly AML,  

She earned her medical degree and Masters of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) from the Medical University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on studying the effectiveness of novel therapeutics on patients with AML and other myeloid neoplasms including MDS. She is currently the lead principal investigator (PI) on a multi-center study investigating novel treatment in elder AML patients. Her presentation will include an update on her research and that of other promising treatments in the pipeline.