Craig Emmitt Cole, M.D. is a board-certified Hematologist who received his Bachelor of Science degree in physiology at Michigan State University and the College of Lyman Briggs, in East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Cole went on to receive his doctoral degree at the Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at the University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Cole subsequently had a post-fellowship laboratory research position at the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. This opportunity then led him to becoming an attending hematologist at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin for 9 years. There he was an instructor for both the medical and nursing schools of the western campus of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He also served as an Affiliate Faculty Member of Graduate Community Health Programs at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Department of Health Professions. While in Wisconsin, his clinical research interest was in multiple myeloma, malignant hematology, clinical apheresis, and patient reported outcomes in hematology. He then returned to the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the Division of Hematology/Oncology with his primary clinical and research interest being in novel therapeutics in multiple myeloma. In 2019, he came back to Michigan State University in College of Human Medicine - Karmanos Cancer Institute at McLaren Greater Lansing as the Director of Clinical Cancer Research. Dr. Cole next expanded his work in myeloma research and clinical care in July of 2024 by joining the Multiple Myeloma and Amyloidosis Multidisciplinary Team at the Karmanos Cancer Institute as Associate Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit Michigan and Clinical Associate Professor at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Cole has participated in over 60 clinical trials in Multiple Myeloma and Malignant Hematology. Currently, he is a member of the International Myeloma Working Group, International Myeloma Society, the American Society of Hematology and European Hematology Association. He has published in high impact international journals and presented at the American Society of Hematology, International Myeloma Workshop, and the American Society for Apheresis meetings. Over the past 20 years, he has lectured around the world to patients, researchers, and clinical providers on multiple myeloma, plasma cell dyscrasias, and disparities in cancer care. Dr. Cole has been fortunate to have won awards for his work in student, resident, and fellow teaching, multiple myeloma research, and patient advocacy. Craig has always had a strong commitment to equity of cancer care, patient empowerment, and community education by working with several local, national and international patient advocacy associations to bring the news of myeloma research to everyone.

Myeloma survivor, patient advocate, wife, mom of 6. Believer that patients can help accelerate a cure by weighing in and participating in clinical research. Founder of the HealthTree Foundation.