Highlights of ASH in Asia-Pacific 2026 (Updated with Program)

by Admin | 7 March 2026

For details kindly go to https://www.hematology.org/meetings/highlights-of-ash-in-asia-pacific

Highlights of ASH Day 1 (Friday, April 10, 2026)

Time	Session
8:00 – 8:45	Registration and Exhibits Open
8:45 – 9:00	Welcome & Introductions
9:00 – 9:30	Changing Paradigms of Treatment Approaches for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Katherine Tarlok, MD — University of Washington, Seattle

9:30 – 10:00	Integrating Approved Immunotherapies into Treatment Approaches for Adult B-Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Adele K. Fielding, MBBS, PhD — Hull York Medical School, England
10:00 – 10:30	Panel Discussion
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
11:00 – 11:45	From Bench to Bedside: Innovations in Hemoglobinopathy Treatment Payal Desai, MD — Wake Forest University, USA Prantar Chakrabarti, MBBS, MD, DNB, DM — Zoho for Healthcare, India
11:45 – 12:15	Artificial Intelligence and Informatics in Hematology Barbara Lam, MD — Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle
12:15 – 12:45	Panel Discussion
12:45 – 2:00	Lunch in Exhibit Hall (All Attendees) Lunch with the Experts (Ticketed)
2:00 – 3:15	Tumor Board: Evolving Myeloma Treatment Paradigm Gin Gin Gan, MD — Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur Shaji Kumar, MD — Mayo Clinic, Rochester Hang Quach, MBBS, MD — St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
3:15 – 3:45	Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
3:45 – 4:15	Clinical Features and Management of Histiocytic Neoplasms in the Era of Targeted Therapies Gaurav Goyal, MD — University of Alabama, Birmingham
4:15 – 4:45	Novel Insights and Emerging Therapies in Immune-Mediated Cytopenias Michael A. Cole, MD, DPhil — Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore
4:45 – 5:15	Panel Discussion
5:15 – 5:20	Highlights of ASH Day 1 Closing Remarks

Highlights of ASH Day 2 (Saturday, April 11, 2026)

Time	Session
8:00 – 8:45	Registration and Exhibits Open
8:45 – 9:00	Welcome & Introductions
9:00 – 9:30	New Frontiers in Bleeding Disorders Ross Baker, MBBS — Perth Blood Institute, Perth, Australia
9:30 – 10:00	Hematology Through a Gender Lens: Unique and Underrecognized Challenges Sarah O'Brien, MD, MSc — Nationwide Children's, Columbus, Ohio
10:00 – 10:30	Panel Discussion
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
11:00 – 12:15	Turning the Tide: Key Cases and Conundrums in Thrombosis Medicine Lai Heng Lee, MBBS, MD — Singapore General Hospital, Singapore Ponlapat Rojnuckarin, MD, PhD — Bumrungrad International Hospital, Bangkok Jeffrey Weitz, MD — McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
12:15 – 1:30	Lunch in the Exhibit Hall (All Attendees) Lunch with the Experts (Ticketed)
1:30 – 2:00	Updates in Management of Indolent Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Jia Ruan, MD, PhD — Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
2:00 – 2:45	Novel Treatment Strategies in Aggressive Lymphoma Steven Park, MD — Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem Eric Tse, MBBS, PhD — Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
2:45 – 3:15	Panel Discussion
3:15 – 3:45	Coffee Break (Exhibit Hall)
3:45 – 4:30	New Horizons in Transplantation and Cellular Therapies in Asia and Beyond Robert Negrin, MD — Stanford University, California William Hwang, MBBS — National Cancer Centre & Singapore General Hospital
4:30 – 5:00	Practice Changing Advances in Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Harry Gill Singh, MBBS — HKU Med, Hong Kong
5:00 – 5:30	Panel Discussion
5:30	Highlights of ASH in Asia-Pacific Closing Remarks