Invited speakers

Tomasz Sacha

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Professor Tomasz Sacha MD.PhD graduated from the Medical Academy in Kraków in 1992. He received his Ph.D. and habilitation for the work on molecular diagnostics of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). As the President of the Molecular Hematology Section of the Polish Society of Human Genetics he was responsible for establishing a network of 18 cooperating Molecular Laboratories in Poland, all certified according to European Leukemia Net regulations. He is the president of CML Section of the Polish Adult Leukemia Group, and is the head of The Chair and Department of Hematology in Jagiellonian University Hospital in Kraków. He has extensive clinical experience in treatment of myeloproliferative neoplasms. He is interested in the clinical research of endothelium disturbances in myeloproliferative neoplasms.


Andrius Žučenk​a

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Andrius Zucenka, MD, PhD, is a hematologist and a bone marrow transplantation physician at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos. He finished the hematology residency in 2019. He obtained a PhD and became an assistant professor in 2024 at Vilnius University. His main scientific interests are acute myeloid leukemia, bone marrow transplantation, and novel therapies.




Fredrik Schjesvold

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Fredrik Schjesvold is the founder and Head of Oslo Myeloma Center, in Oslo, Norway. He is head of the Norwegian myeloma association, President of the Nordic Myeloma Study Group and a board member of the European Myeloma Network. He is principal investigator for 5 academic studies and national investigator of 62 clinical trials in multiple myeloma, in addition to being site investigator in 11 more.

He is a co-author of European (ESMO) and global (IMWG) guidelines, as well as lead author of the Norwegian myeloma guidelines. He is peer reviewer of several international journals, and co-editor of the journal Hemato, and Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia. He is an international expert on myeloma and has given talks in Europe, America, and Asia.


Jecko Thachil

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Jecko Thachil is a Consultant in Haemostasis and Thrombosis at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and MAHSC Professor at the University of Manchester. In the last 10 years, Jecko Thachil has been the first author or a key contributor to several national and international guidelines and guidance documents.

Jecko Thachil has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers and edited the popular books Haematology in Critical Care and Handbook of Venous Thromboembolism.



Sigrun Thorsteinsdottir

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Sigrún Thorsteinsdóttir, originally from Reykjavik, Iceland, earned her medical degree from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Her research interests center around multiple myeloma and its precursor conditions. She completed her PhD in 2019 and has since been a postdoctoral researcher in the iStopMM study at the University of Iceland, with a primary focus on investigating smoldering multiple myeloma.

She is a member on the board of the Nordic Myeloma Study Group (NMSG) and leads the NMSG Real World Evidence Group. Simultaneously, she practices clinically as a medical doctor in the Department of Hematology at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark.