For its first National ZOOM Meeting of 2026, the WMFC invites you to hear
Dr. Dima El-Sharkawi
on
Getting to Know your Immune System
January 22, 2026
4:00 pm Eastern Time / 1:00 pm Pacific Time
Zoom information coming soon!
(Dr. El-Sharkawi has kindly agreed to join us at 9:00 pm in London, England, and we are happy to present her live, despite the time zone difference)
Dr. El-Sharkawi is a haematology consultant at the Royal Marsden Hospital in the UK. Her specialist interests are lymphoma, CLL and the mature lymphoid leukaemias. She is clinical lead for the SIHMDS at the Royal Marsden Hospital, lead for the clinical advisory group for WMUK, and an author on the British guidelines for the diagnosis and management of Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia. As well, she is lead for the national haemato-oncology guidelines in the UK.
Dr. El-Sharkawi studied medicine at the University of Cambridge where she gained a First Class Honours degree and then trained in haematology at University College London Hospital before undertaking research in epigenetic-related prognostic factors in acute myeloid leukaemia at UCL Cancer Institute. In 2017, Dr. El-Sharkawi won the EHA Clinical Research Fellowship. She has been an investigator on a number of clinical research studies in these disease groups.
We urge you to take advantage of this amazing opportunity to learn about your immune system from world expert Dr. Dima El-Sharkawi!
Empower yourself with more knowledge of your immune system to
– understand how your own body tackles malignant B Cells
– help you and your doctor decide upon treatments like immunoglobulin infusion
