CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds Presents:
“Improving the Lives of People with Sickle Cell Disease”
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Global Communications Center (Building 19)
Alexander D. Langmuir Auditorium
Roybal Campus
Presented By:
Mary Hulihan, DrPH
Health Scientist, Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch
Division of Blood Disorders
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC
“Using Data to Understand Gaps in Care and Outcomes”
Kim Smith-Whitley, MD
Medical Director, Sickle Cell Clinical Program
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Chief Medical Officer (Immediate Past)
Sickle Cell Association of America
“The Sickle Cell Community and Pediatric Care”
Kathryn Hassell, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology
University of Colorado Denver
“Improving Outcomes for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease”
Jean Raphael, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Center for Child Health Policy and Advocacy
Texas Children’s Hospital
“A Health Policy Approach to Sickle Cell Disease”
Facilitated By:
John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds
Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds
Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Director, Public Health Grand Rounds