In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Shaji Kumar, MD,  a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, talks with Jorge Cortes, MD, the inaugural editor-in-chief of Blood Global Hematology, one of the latest additions to the growing Blood journals portfolio. Dr. Cortes, director of the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University, shares his vision for the journal and his thoughts on how it will impact the hematologic research community around the world. Support for this episode provided by Rigel Pharmaceuticals.