Azra Raza, MD, is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the Edward P. Evans Foundation MDS Center at Columbia University. A practicing oncologist she also directs a cancer research lab, is the recipient of three serial endowed chairs, and an honorary PhD. Raza has collected >60,000 longitudinally drawn blood and marrow samples from thousands of preleukemia and acute leukemia patients. Describing her groundbreaking ideas in her bestselling book, THE FIRST CELL: And the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last, Raza is devoted to shifting the healthcare focus from treatment to early detection and prevention.