Curing
Sickle Cell Disease: the good, the bad, and the future
Michael
R. DeBaun, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
JC Peterson Endowed Chair
Vice Chair for Clinical Research in Pediatrics
Founder
and Director, Vanderbilt-Meharry Center of Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease
Department
of Pediatrics
Learning objectives:
·
To describe the clinical history of
improved survival of children and adults with sickle cell disease in the
current era.
·
To describe current success and failures
for curative treatment of children and adults with sickle cell disease.
·
To describe clinical and genetic
strategies to improve health outcomes before and after curative therapy in
children and adults with sickle cell disease.
