Welcome to Plenary Session.

I'm Vinay Prasad. I'm an associate professor with University of California, San Francisco.

I'm a practicing he-mong doctor, and my interests are medicine, oncology, and health policy.

And that's what you're going to get on Plenary Session.

This is season four, hashtag zero COVID.

It's zero COVID because we're not going to talk about COVID.

We're back, oncology, medicine, health policy.

We've got a lot in store for you.

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And with that, let's start the show. I'm back in plenary session, real life edition,

and I'm joined by Bita Fackrey. Dr. Fackery is an assistant professor of medicine of hematology,

oncology. She is an expert in lymphoma. And she's somebody who came across my radar because

I watched you give a talk, and it was really spectacular. And I thought, oh boy oh boy people would love to hear you let me just give listeners one more bit of

background about you you did your medical school abroad in Iran then you came here

went to Boston University for your residency you did your fellowship of Washu

St. Louis which is a great lymphoma program shout out to I know David

Russell Germain is listening as we speak. And then you came here for

faculty. So thank you so much for doing this interview.

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