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Wael Saber, MD, MS Current P ositions:  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin and Attending P hysician in the MCW Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Program  Scientific Directo r, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) , Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin  Scientific Director, CIBMTR Chronic Leukemia Working Committee  Scientific Director, CIBMTR Health Services and International Issues Working Committee  Assistant Scientific Director, CIBMTR Acute Leukemia Working Committee Education and H onors: Dr. Saber received his MD degree from Ain Shams University, Cairo, in 1995. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 1998‐1999, as well as a residency in in ternal medicine from 1999‐2001. Dr. Saber served a hematology fellowship at the University of Wisconsin from 2006‐2009, and holds a master’s degree in population health sciences from the University of Wisconsin. He joined CIBMTR in 2009. Recent Peer - Reviewed Publications : 1. Saber W, Opie S, Rizzo JD, Zhang MJ, Horow itz MM, Schriber J. Outcomes after matched unrelated donor versus identical sibling hematopoietic cell transplantation in adults with acute myelogenous leukemia. Blood. 2012 Apr 26;119(17):3908 - 16 PMCID: PMC3350357. 2. Saber W, Cutler CS, Nakamura R, Zhang MJ , Atallah E, Rizzo JD, Maziarz RT, Cortes J, Kalaycio ME, Horowitz MM. Impact of donor source on hematopoietic cell transplantation outcomes for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Blood. 2013 Sep 12;122(11):1974 - 82 PMCID: PMC3772501. 3. Copelan EA , Hamilton BK, Avalos B, Ahn KW, Bolwell BJ, Zhu X, Aljurf M, van Besien K, Bredeson C, Cahn JY, Costa LJ, de Lima M, Gale RP, Hale GA, Halter J, Hamadani M, Inamoto Y, Kamble RT, Litzow MR, Loren AW, Marks DI, Olavarria E, Roy V, Sabloff M, Savani BN, Sef tel M, Schouten HC, Ustun C, Waller EK, Weisdorf DJ, Wirk B, Horowitz MM, Arora M, Szer J, Cortes J, Kalaycio ME, Maziarz RT, Saber W. Better leukemia - free and overall survival in AML in first remission following cyclophosphamide in combination with busulf an compared with TBI. Blood. 2013 Dec 5;122(24):3863 - 70 PMCID: PMC3854108. 4. Gupta V, Malone AK, Hari PN, Ahn KW, Hu ZH, Gale RP, Ballen KK, Hamadani M, Olavarria E, Gerds AT, Waller EK, Costa LJ, Antin JH, Kamble RT, van Besien KM, Savani BN, Schouten HC, S zer J, Cahn JY, de Lima MJ, Wirk B, Aljurf MD, Popat U, Bejanyan N, Litzow MR, Norkin M, Lewis ID, Hale GA, Woolfrey AE, Miller AM, Ustun C, Jagasia MH, Lill M, Maziarz RT, Cortes J, Kalaycio ME, Saber W. Reduced - intensity hematopoietic cell transplantatio n for patients with primary myelofibrosis: a cohort analysis from the center for international blood and marrow transplant research. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2014 Jan;20(1):89 - 97 PMCID: PMC3886623. 5. Sabloff M, Sobecks RM, Ahn KW, Zhu X, de Lima M, Brow n JR, Inamoto Y, Holland HK, Aljurf MD, Laughlin MJ, Kamble RT, Hsu JW, Wirk BM, Seftel M, Lewis ID, Arora M, Alyea EP, Kalaycio ME, Cortes J, Maziarz RT, Gale RP, Saber W . Does total body irradiation conditioning improve outcomes of myeloablative human le ukocyte antigen - identical sibling transplantations for chronic lymphocytic leukemia? Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2014 Mar;20(3):421 - 4 PMCID: PMC4026353. 6. Sobecks RM, Leis JF, Gale RP, Ahn KW, Zhu X, Sabloff M, de Lima M, Brown JR, Inamoto Y, Hale GA, Alju rf MD, Kamble RT, Hsu JW, Pavletic SZ, Wirk B, Seftel MD, Lewis ID, Alyea EP, Cortes J, Kalaycio ME, Maziarz RT, Saber W. Outcomes of HLA Matched Sibling Donor Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Myeloablative vs. Reduced - In tensity Conditioning Regimens. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2014 Sep;20(9):1390 - 8 PMCID: PMC4174349. 7. Armand P, Kim HT, Logan BR, Wang Z, Alyea EP, Kalaycio ME, Maziarz RT, Antin JH, Soiffer RJ, Weisdorf DJ, Rizzo JD, Horowitz MM, Saber W . Validation and r efinement of the Disease Risk Index for allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Blood. 2014 Jun 5;123(23):3664 - 71 PMCID: PMC4047501 . Contact I nformation: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Phone: (414) 805‐0700 Email: wsaber@mcw.edu Website: http://www.mcw.edu/neoplasticdisease/faculty/WaelSaberMD.htm