Dr. Scheinberg, Chief of Hematology at the Hospital A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo in Brazil, was elected President of the Society of Hematologic Oncology (SOHO).
Dr. Scheinberg succeeds Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD, Chief of the Section of Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Deputy Chair of Translational Research, and a Professor in the Department of Leukemia at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
“I am deeply honored and humbled to step into the role of President of [SOHO], succeeding the exceptional Dr. [Garcia-Manero], who led with excellence the society in 2023-2024,” Dr. Scheinberg wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “I have big shoes to fill!”
Dr. Garcia-Manero passed the SOHO torch during the closing remarks at the Twelfth Annual Meeting on September 7 in Houston, Texas.
“I have known Dr. Phillip Scheinberg for many years,” Dr. Garcia-Manero began. “He trained in the United States but went back to Brazil, helping transform care for leukemia patients there. He has been tremendously involved with the society and I cannot think of a better leader for this year than Dr. Scheinberg.”
Dr. Scheinberg’s clinical interests include myelodysplastic syndromes, bone marrow transplantation, and marrow failure syndromes such as aplastic anemia. After graduating with a medical degree from the University of Santo Amaro in Brazil, he secured an internship and residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, Florida. He then became a staff clinician at the National Institutes of Health and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute before returning to Brazil in 2012 for his current role at the Hospital A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo.
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