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Specializes in Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation. Director of Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. Professional interests: Blood and marrow transplantation for sickle cell disease; clinical research in sickle cell disease.
Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine; Director of the Sickle Cell Disease Program in the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, and Aflac Field Force Children’s Chair for Sickle Cell Disease, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia. His research focusses on neonatal screening, clinical management and health outcomes for children with sickle cell disease.
PhD – Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Co-director, Center for Behavioral Decision Research, Carnegie Mellon, and Director, Behavioral Economics, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, University of Pennsylvania. Professional interests: Medical decision making, public policy, intertemporal choice, bargaining, emotions, taste prediction, neuroeconomics, sex and relationships, psychology and economics of information, conflicts of interest, privacy, philosophy and history of science.
Senior Associate, Hematology/Sickle Cell, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Professional interests: pain and sickle cell disease.
MSN, RN – Registered nurse, Masters of Science in Nursing with a focus on mixed methods research. Research coordinator Pediatric Department, Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. Professional interests: daily decision making and chronic management of sickle cell disease, qualitative and mixed methods research.
Graduated from Armed Forces Medical College, India in December 2016. She is currently pursuing a clinical research fellowship at the hematology branch of NHLBI, NIH under the mentorship of Dr. Adrian Wiestner, in Bethesda, Maryland. She is interested in hematological disorders.
Graduated from Armed Forces Medical College, India. He is currently working on a similar information website in Hindi on cancers. He is interested in specializing in Internal Medicine.
MPH (Health Policy & Management), Emory School of Public Health. ECFMG certified. Research Coordinator Sickle Cell Research Program, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Professional interests: Sickle Cell disease; hematological malignancies; enteric infectious diseases.
Graduated from the Armed Forces Medical Colleg in India. Medical resident in pediatrics at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.
Graduated from the Armed Forces Medical Colleg in India. Medical resident in pediatrics at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.
Founding Executive Director of the Children’s Sickle Cell Foundation, Inc. and the mother of a child with sickle cell disease. As a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and is a research assistant in the Hematology/Oncology Department of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She serves on various committees within the realm of sickle cell disease.