Editorial Emil J Freireich, MD, D.Sc (Hon.) Ruth Harriet Ainsworth Chair Distinguished Teaching Professor Director, Adult Leukemia Research Program Director, Office of Graduate Medical Education The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Founding President & Director, Society of Hematologic Oncology

Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia Vol. 14, No. S3, S1

Hagop Kantarjian, MD

Professor & Chairman, Department of Leukemia Associate Vice President for Global Academic Programs The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Co-Founder & Director, Society of Hematologic Oncology

Michael J. Keating, MB, BS

Professor of Medicine & Internist, Department of Leukemia The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Co-Founder & Director, Society of Hematologic Oncology

The Proceedings of the Initial Meeting of the Society of Hematologic Oncology 2013 At the 8th meeting of the International Hematological Malignancies Conference held in 2012, a new Society of Hematologic Oncology (SOHO) was organized. At the 2012 meeting, over 750 people became members of SOHO. Over the next year, an additional 500 people joined. The Society now has a membership of 1,239 individuals. The first formal meeting of SOHO was held in 2013 at the Westin Galleria in Houston, Texas, September 18e21. The meeting was 31/2 days in duration and there were 127 scientific presentations. There were also 11 meet-the-professor presentations and 69 posters that were presented complete with abstracts. Also at the meeting in 2013, the leadership organized three standing committees of The Society. The first would be a Steering Committee, which had 21 members, the second an Education Committee which had 29 members, and the third would be a Scientific Committee

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which had 23 members. The three founding members of the Society became the Board of Directors. In addition, we enrolled 12 members into an Ambassador Program, representing 12 countries, from Central America, South America, and Europe. The meeting in 2013 was sufficiently successful to assure that SOHO will be an important scientific meeting and make an important contribution to progress into the control of the hematological malignancies. The upcoming meeting of the SOHO for 2014 will be held September 17-20, 2014 at the Hilton-Americas Houston Hotel and Convention Center. The prospects for the meeting in 2014 suggest a greatly improved meeting involving a large number of leading investigators in the field of hematologic oncology. Additional information about SOHO events and membership may be obtained online at www.sohoonline.org.

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