Workshop Co-chairs

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Highlights of Previous Years
Payal Desai, MD
Director, Sickle Cell Enterprise, Associate Professor, Levine Cancer Institute

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Forms of Recognition
Julie Kanter, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Hematology & Oncology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Building Relationships with the Local Community
Sophie Lanzkron, MD
Professor of Medicine and Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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Building a Transition Program
Wally R. Smith, MD
Florence Neal Cooper Smith Professor of Sickle Cell Disease, Vice Chairman for Research, Virginia Commonwealth University
Workshop Faculty
All Speakers

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Highlights of Previous Years
Andrew O’Brien, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Indiana University

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Quality Improvement
Kenneth Rivlin, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Jacobi Medical Center

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Building Relationships with the Local Community
Derek Robertson, MBA, JD, CHC
President, The Maryland Sickle Cell Disease Association

Farzana Sayani, MD
Director, Penn Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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Building a Transition Program
India Sisler, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Director Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Building a Transition Program
Wally R. Smith, MD
Florence Neal Cooper Smith Professor of Sickle Cell Disease, Vice Chairman for Research, Virginia Commonwealth University

John J. Strouse, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Director of the Adult Sickle Cell Program at Duke University