Title: Consensus definition of essential, optimal, and suggested components of a pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Center
Authors:
Monica L. Hulbert, MD1 Deepa Manwani, MD2 Emily Riehm Meier, MD, MSHS3* Ofelia A. Alvarez, MD4 R. Clark Brown, MD, PhD5 Michael U. Callaghan, MD6** Andrew D. Campbell, MD7 Thomas D. Coates, MD8 Melissa J. Frei-Jones, MD, MSCI9Jane S. Hankins, MD, MS10 Matthew M. Heeney, MD11 Lewis L. Hsu, MD12 Jeffrey D. Lebensburger, DO, MSPH13 Charles T. Quinn, MD, MPH14 Nirmish Shah, MD15 Kim Smith-Whitley, MD16,17 Courtney Thornburg, MD18 Julie Kanter, MD19
1Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
2Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
3Indiana Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, Indianapolis, IN
4Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL
5Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
6Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI
7Division of Pediatric Hematology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
8Cancer and Blood Disease Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles/University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
9Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Texas School of Medicine-San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
10Department of Hematology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
11Dana Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
12Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
13Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
14Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
15Divisions of Pediatric Hematology Oncology and Hematology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
16Department of Hematology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
17Global Blood Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA
18Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Rady Children’s Hospital/Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA
19Division of Hematology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*current affiliation: Global Blood Therapeutics
**current affiliation: Agios Pharmaceuticals
Corresponding author:
Monica L. Hulbert, MD
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St. Louis, MO 63110
Email: monicahulbert@wustl.edu
Phone: 314-454-6018
Fax: 314-454-2780
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Running title: Components of Pediatric SCD Center
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