NHLBI’s 2020 Annual Sickle Cell Disease Research Meeting (virtual)

W. Keith Hoots, MD, Director, Division of Blood Diseases & Resources; National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute

Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, MD, Section Director of BMT, Chair of Blood and Marrow Transplant, Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory University

Shannon Smith, Emory University (by Invitation Only)

Session Chairs: Kalpna Gupta, PhD and Susanna Curtis, MD

Medical Marijuana Certification for Adults With Sickle Cell Disease: Observations and Future Directions

Susanna Curtis, MD, Department of Medical Oncology/Hematology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Lessons from the Outcomes of Vaporized Cannabis Trial for Pain in SCD

Kalpna Gupta, PhD, University of California, Irvine, CA

Enhancing Endogenous Cannabinoids to Mitigate Sickle Pathobiology

Donovan Argueta, PhD, University of California Presidential Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA

W. Keith Hoots, MD, Director, Division of Blood Diseases & Resources- DBDR
Traci Mondoro, PhD, Branch Chief, Division of Blood Diseases & Resources
TopMed Update
Pankaj Qasba, PhD
Program Officer, Division of Blood Diseases & Resources

Sharon Smith, PhD, Division of Blood Diseases & Resources

Paula Tanabe, PhD, RN, Duke University

Jane Hankins, MD, St. Jude Research Hospital

Andrea Lamont, PhD, Wandersman Center

Julie Kanter, MD, University of Alabama

Marsha Treadwell, PhD, UCSF Benoiff Children’s Hospital Oakland

Victor Gordeuk, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Kim Smith-Whitley, MD; Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center for Women & Girls with Blood Disorders-FWGBD

Lydia Pecker, MD, Director, Young Adult Clinic, Johns Hopkins Sickle Cell Ctr.

Naomi Tepper, MD, MPH, FACOG; Obstetrician/Gynecologist-CDC

Sarah O’Brien, MD, Pediatric Hematologist, Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Kim Smith-Whitley, MD; Director, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center for Women & Girls with Blood Disorders-FWGBD

Mark T. Gladwin, MD; Jack D. Myers Distinguished Professor & Chair
Chairman of the Department of Medicine; UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Darrell J. Triulzi, MD; Director, Division of Transfusion Medicine Dep. of Pathology University of Pittsburgh; Medical Director, Clinical Service Vitalant, Northeast Division

Karina Yazdanbakhsh, PhD; Head of Laboratory, Member, New York Blood Center

DISPLACE- Dissemination and Implementation of Stroke Prevention Looking at the Care Environment

Julie Kanter, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

Clinician-Investigator and Staff Hematologist, Red Blood Cell Disorders Program, Therapeutic Apheresis Program, Division of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network

Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Joy Ogunsile, MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology & Oncology, Department of Medicine, UAB, Birmingham, AL

Wally R. Smith, MD, Florence Neal Cooper Smith Professor of Sickle Cell Disease, Vice Chair for Research, Division of General Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA

Julie Kanter, MD, Director, Adult Sickle Cell Clinic; University of Alabama Birmingham; First Author, Blood Advances ADV-2020-001743R1 -- Accepted for Publication; Q&A 10 mins

Modupe Idowu, MD Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, University of Texas, Houston
Farzana Sayani, MC MSc; Director; Penn Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program, University of Pennsylvania
Hannah Lichtsinn, MD; Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, HealthPartners, University of Minnesota

Patricia Engblom, MHA, FACHE, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Janis Bozzo, MSN, RN, Yale New Haven Health

Julie Kanter, MD
Wally R. Smith, MD VCU
Ify Osunkwo, MD, Director, Sickle Cell Disease Enterprise and Professor of Medicine Levine Cancer Institute Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
Sophie Lanzkron MD, MHS, Professor of Medicine and Oncology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Baltimore, MD

Charles S. Abrams, MD; Professor, Director; Penn-CHOP Blood Center for Patient Care & Discovery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Wenbo Li, MD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Authors/co-Authors: Edward Gomperts, MD, Howard Levy, MD, Mark Young, PhD: Hillhurst Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
Fuad Abdulla, MSc; Chunsheng Chen, PhD; Greg Vercellotti, MD; John Belcher, PhD:  Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation University of Minnesota Department of Medicine, Vascular Research Center

Kirkwood A. Pritchard, Jr., PhD, Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

Steve Long, MD

Steve Long, MD

Ward Hagar, MD

Frans Kuypers, PhD

Ash Lal, MD