An important member Team ITC, Dorothy Yamamoto, has just been diagnosed with leukemia, and will be hospitalized at the UCLA Medical Center during her tests, chemotherapy and more for at least a month. Dorothy had been feeling week ever since having the flu late in 2005, and had undergone one test after another until getting this diagnosis. In fact, they still don’t know precisely which form of leukemia she has. That’s going to require some gnarly bone-marrow biopsies this week.

You may not know Dorothy by name, but you’d recognize her work, which includes The Conversations Network graphics and the logo for Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast. Dorothy is a brilliant designer and a huge supporter of The Conversations Network, TWiT and podcasting in general.

Dorothy, we’re all thinking of you and hoping for your rapid recovery.