The Board of Directors and the Steering Committee of the Society of Hematologic Oncology (SOHO) are pleased to announce that Phillip Scheinberg, MD, PhD, assumed the position of SOHO President on September 9, 2024. He will oversee the Society during the 2024-2025 term and will chair the SOHO 2025 annual meeting scheduled for September 3-6, 2025.
Dr. Scheinberg is Head of the Division of Hematology at the Hospital A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo in Brazil, where he specializes in hematologic oncology, specifically in bone marrow failure and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).
Dr. Scheinberg was born in Boston but grew up in São Paulo, Brazil, where his father was a rheumatologist. Following in his physician father’s footsteps, Phillip completed medical school and earned his medical degree from the Universidade of Santo Amaro in São Paulo in 1995, followed by a residency in internal medicine at the University of São Paulo, the largest university in Brazil.
In 1997 Dr. Scheinberg came to the United States to pursue further training, completing an internship and residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, Florida, where he served as Chief Resident during his fourth year in training. He later spent 11 years as a Fellow and later as Staff Clinician at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, where he specialized in hematology and oncology. It was during his first year as a fellow at NHLBI that he first developed a specific interest in marrow failure syndromes and bone marrow transplantation, conducting laboratory research in these areas during his tenure at NIH.
After 15 years of advanced training in the United States, Dr. Scheinberg returned to Brazil in 2012 to take on the role of Head of the Division of Hematology at the Hospital A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, which was founded in 1859 and is one of the largest and most advanced private hospital complexes in Latin America.
In 2018 Dr. Scheinberg was awarded a doctoral degree from the School of Medicine at the University of São Paulo.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Scheinberg!
