Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

Myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative Neoplasm, Unclassifiable (MDS/MPN-U): More Than Just a "Catch-All" Term?

The clinicopathology of MDS and MPN are not mutually exclusive and for this reason the category of myelodysplastic syndrome/myeloproliferative neoplasm (MDS/MPN) exists. Several sub-entities have been included under the MDS/MPN umbrella, including MDS/MPN-unclassifiable (MDS/MPN-U) for those cases whose morphologic and clinical phenotype do not meet criteria to be classified as any other MDS/MPN sub-entity.

Ellen Ritchie, MD

Institution
The New York Presbyterian Hospital
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
About
Ellen K. Ritchie, MD is assistant professor of medicine and a member of the Leukemia Program at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and the New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Dr. Ritchie graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University and received her medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City. She was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia campus. Dr. Ritchie completed her fellowship

Nikolai Podoltsev, MD, PhD

Institution
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)
About
Dr. Podoltsev practice is focused on myeloid neoplasms including acute myelogenous leukemias (AML), myelodisplastic syndromes (MDS), myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) like polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), myelofibrosis (MF), chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) among others. He is providing care for patients with bone marrow failure syndromes / aplastic anemia as well as acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Dr. Podoltsev also follows patients with clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), systemic mastocytosis and hypereosinophilic syndrome.

Thomas Prebet, MD, PhD

Institution
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
About
After completing his doctorate in medical hematology and oncology in Lyon, France, Dr. Prebet joined Institut Paoli-Calmettes in Marseille, France and completed a fellowship in Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MA, USA) as a Fullbright alumni. Dr. Prebet is currently the director of the inpatient hematology unit and the medical director of the hematology division of Yale Clinical Trial Office. He is the associate director of the myeloid malignancies program in the hematology department of the Yale Cancer Center, New haven, CT. He is developing myeloid malignancies clinical trials and
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