Jacob Michael Rowe, MD, F.A.C.P.

Dr. Rowe is chief of the Department of Hematology and the Ann and Pinky Sohn Chair in Hemato-Oncology at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, and Emeritus Professor at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. He is a past Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester and a former chief of the Hematology and BMT Department at the Rambam Healthcare Campus in Haifa, Israel.  He has actively participated in a wide range of national and international research projects and initiatives. He is a former chairman of the Leukemia Committee of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) and has developed and chaired many national and international phase II and III studies in leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and BMT.

He has received many prestigious awards, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2014.  Dr. Rowe is the designated editor-in-chief of Haematologica, a past associate editor of Blood and Leukemia, as well as a former editor-in-chief of Blood Reviews and Best Practice & Research: Clinical Hematology.  Dr. Rowe is also on the editorial boards of multiple hematology journals.  Dr. Rowe is a frequent invited speaker or chairman at international meetings and has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles, reviews and book chapters.