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Patient organizations

EHA greatly values the collaboration with patient organizations in a growing number of areas, from joint advocacy and a strong presence at the EHA Annual Congress – with a prominent place for the EHA-Patient Joint Symposium on policy and regulatory…

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Chairs and members

Chair (2024–2027 term)Igor Aurer (education and scientific meetings co-lead) – University Hospital Centre Zagreb, University of Zagreb and KroHem, Croatia

Co-chair (2024–2027 term)Martin Dreyling (guidelines lead) – University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig Maximilian University and GLA, Germany

SWG Executive Board members (2024–2027 term)
Kim Linton (scientific secretary) –…

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Tools and Overview Tables

EHA2023 session on COVID-19 and influenzaThe SWG suggested the above session, which was held during the EHA 2023 Hybrid Congress. Full titleCOVID-19 and influenza in patients with hematological malignancies.

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Highlights of Past EHA (HOPE) Latin America (LA) 2023 - report

October 26, 2023 – São Paulo, Brazil

Meeting chairs:

A Almeida - President EHA

JF Comenalli Marques Jr - President ABHH

C Chiattone - President HEMO 2023

This year, the HOPE LA meeting was held in collaboration with the Associação Brasileira de Hematologia Hemoterapia e…

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Highlights from the SWG

The following activities, which were organized by EMN, also constitute contributions to and participation in the work of the EHA SWG on Multiple Myeloma.

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Adding elotuzumab to standard treatment for multiple myeloma significantly reduced the risk of disease progression, with benefits sustained at two years

ELOQUENT-2, which evaluated elotuzumab in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone, is the first Phase III study to demonstrate the benefit of directly activating the immune system in the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

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Addition of obinutuzumab (GA101) or rituximab to chlorambucil improves outcomes for elderly patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and co-existing medical conditions (comorbidities)

CLL is the most common leukemia in the western world. Many CLL patients are elderly and have comorbidities rendering them ineligible for aggressive standard treatments.

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Chairs and Members

Chair:
Francesco Buccisano, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy (2021-2024)

Co-Chair:
Sylvie Freeman, Clinical Immunology Service, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK (2021-2024)

SWG Executive Board members and terms:

Torsten Haferlach, MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Munich, Germany…

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