Full Schedule

Chair: Philipp Aldana, MD – Nemours Children’s Health/ Wolfson Children’s Hospital Jacksonville.

Speaker: Laura Lehman, MD, MPH – Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Speaker: (Alfred) Pokmeng See, MD – Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University

Speaker: Manisha Bansal, MD MS – Nemours Children’s Health

Chair: Caterina P. Minniti, MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

Speaker: Lanetta Bronte, M.D., MPH, MSPH – Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research

Speaker: Alex Rodriguez – A-Rod Corp

Speaker: Yolanda Cash Jackson, Esq. – Becker & Poliakoff

Speaker: Avery Dial, Esq.

Speaker: Bishop Randall E. Holts, CEO – New Hope Missionary Baptist Church of Miami

Speaker: Darryl E. Rouson, Senator

Speaker: Patrice Matchaba, MD – The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI)

Speaker: Gershwin T. Blyden, M.D., Ph.D. – Fooundation for SIckle Cell Disease Research

Performer: Alexandria Arango

Speaker: Kayvan Amini, D.O., FACC – South Florida Cardiology Consultants

Chair: Wally R. Smith, M.D. – Virginia Commonwealth University

Speaker: Adetola Kassim, M.B.B.S, M.S., FACP – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Speaker: Sophie Lanzkron, M.D., MHS – Thomas Jefferson University

Chair: Ashley Valentine, MRes – Sick Cells

Speaker: Fabienne Antoine-Nasser

Organizer: Melissa Akinlawon, MA – Sick Cells

Chair: Patrick C. Hines, M.D., Ph.D. – Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA

Panelist: E. Leila Jerome Clay, M.D., MCTS, FAAP – Novo Nordisk Inc.

Panelist: Cameron Trenor, MD – Cellarity

Panelist: Gregory J. Kato, M.D. – CSL Behring

Panelist: Ahmed Daak, MD, MSc, PhD, DPM, FFPM, EMBA – Sanofi

Panelist: Priya S. Chockalingam, PhD – Beam Therapeutics

Panelist: Michael Callaghan, M.D. – Agios Pharmaceuticals

Panelist: Jeremy Rupon, MD, PhD – Pfizer

Speaker: Cheedy Jaja, Ph.D., MPH, MSN, M.N., PMHNP-BC, APRN, FAAN – University of South Florida

Speaker: Wally R. Smith, M.D. – Virginia Commonwealth University

Moderator: Wally R. Smith, M.D. – Virginia Commonwealth University

Speaker: Elizabeth S. Klings, M.D. – Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Chair: Caterina P. Minniti, MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

Chair: Vence L. Bonham, Jr., J.D. – Meharry Medical College

Speaker: Nicole Farmer, MD – National Institutes of Health

Speaker: Marilyn S. Baffoe-Bonnie, PhD – University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Abdullah Kutlar, M.D. – Augusta University

Speaker: Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, MD – Yale Pediatric Hematology & Oncology

Speaker: John J. Strouse, MD, PhD – Duke

Chair: Kofi A. Anie, Ph.D. – London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London

Speaker: Jerlym S. Porter, PhD, MPH – St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Speaker: Lori E. Crosby, PsyD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Speaker: Solomon Ofori-Acquah, Ph.D. – Solve Sickle Cell Initiative, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University

Chair: Isaac Odame, M.B. ChB, MRCP (UK), FRCPCH, FRCPath, FRCPC – The Hospital for Sick Children

Co-Chair: Andrew D. Campbell, M.D. – Children's National Hospital

Speaker: John James, OBE – Sickle Cell Society

Speaker: Tarun Aurora, M.D., MSCI – Emory University

Speaker: Cheedy Jaja, Ph.D., MPH, MSN, M.N., PMHNP-BC, APRN, FAAN – University of South Florida

Speaker: Baba Psalm Duniya Inusa, MD – King’s College London

Speaker: Ofelia A. Alvarez, MD – University of Miami

Chair: Cheryl A. Brewer, Ph.D., MSN, R.N. – Duke University, School of Nursing/International Assoc of SC Nurses & Professional Associates, Durham, North Carolina

Speaker: Coretta Jenerette, PhD, RN, AOCN, ANEF, FAAN – University of California, San Francisco

Speaker: Cheedy Jaja, Ph.D., MPH, MSN, M.N., PMHNP-BC, APRN, FAAN – University of South Florida

Speaker: Kevin H.M Kuo, MD, MSc – University of Toronto

Chair: Charity I. Oyedeji, MD – Duke

Speaker: Kamia Brown

Speaker: Rosalind Osgood

Speaker: Shevrin Jones

Speaker: Philipp Aldana, MD – Nemours Children’s Health/ Wolfson Children’s Hospital Jacksonville.

Speaker: Kamia Brown

Chair: Wally R. Smith, M.D. – Virginia Commonwealth University

Co-Chair: Kalpna Gupta, Ph.D. – UC Irvine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine

Chair: Wally R. Smith, M.D. – Virginia Commonwealth University

Co-Chair: Kalpna Gupta, Ph.D. – UC Irvine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine

Chair: Wally R. Smith, M.D. – Virginia Commonwealth University

Co-Chair: Kalpna Gupta, Ph.D. – UC Irvine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine

Speaker: Hyeseon Levitsky, Pharm.D. – Larkin University

Moderator: Elnara Fazio-Eynullayeva, MA – Novo Nordisk

Moderator: Anjulika Chawla, M.D., FAAP – Genetix Biotherapeutics

Moderator: Li Yang, Ph.D. – Translational Biobehavioral and Health Promotion Branch, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health

Moderator: Sheinei S. Alan, M.D. – UVA School of Medicine, Inova Campus, Fairfax, VA, USA; and Inova Adult Sickle Cell Program, Inova Healath System, Fairfax, VA, USA

Moderator: Stephanie Wildridge, R.N., BSN – NIH Clinical Center, Translational Biobehavioral and Health Promotions,

Moderator: Ryan N. James, PhD – St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Moderator: Kenneth A. Rivlin, MD, PhD – NYC Health + Hospitals / Jacobi