Full Schedule

Chair: Philipp Aldana, MD – Nemours Children’s Health, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Wolfson Chidren’s Hospital Jacksonvile.

Chair: Caterina Minniti, MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Speaker: Kenneth I. Ataga, MD – UTHSC Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Memphis, TN, USA

Speaker: Donna Whyte-Stewart

Panelist: Gregory J. Kato, MD, PhD – CSL Behring

Speaker: Lanetta Bronte, MD, MPH, MSPH – The Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research

Speaker: Kayvan Amini, DO, FACC – South Florida Cardiology Consultants

Presenter: Christopher Cogle, MD – Florida Medicaid

Chair: Susan P. Perrine, MD, SM – Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Co-Chair: Qin C. Ryan, MD, PhD

Panelist: Wally R. Smith, MD – Virginia Commonwealth University

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

Panelist: Sophie Lanzkron, MD, MHS – Thomas Jefferson University

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

Chair: Ashley Valentine, MRes – Sick Cells

Co-Chair: Melissa Akinlawon

Chair: Patrick C. Hines, MD, PhD – Functional Fluidics

Chair: Nehemie Noel, MS-HCRM, BSHA, RN, CHW – Crisis 2 Crown International Inc.

Speaker: Cheedy Jaja, PHD, MPH, MSN, PMHNP-BC, APRN, FAAN – University of South Florida

Keynote Speaker: Betty Pace, MD – Augusta University

Speaker: Elizabeth S. Klings, MD – Boston University School of Medicine

Speaker: Lakshmanan Krishnamurti – Yale Pediatric Hematology & Oncology

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

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

Chair: Caterina Minniti, MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Speaker: Patricia Oneal, MD – Food and Drug Administration

Speaker: Tonya Wroblewski

Speaker: Solomon Ofori-Acquah

Chair: Cheryl A. Brewer, PhD, MSN, RN – Duke University, School of Nursing

Speaker: Charity I. Oyedeji, MD – Duke University School of Medicine

Chair: Philipp Aldana, MD – Nemours Children’s Health, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Wolfson Chidren’s Hospital Jacksonvile.

Chair: Kalpna Gupta, PhD – University of California, Irvine

Speaker: Jagadeesh Ramasamy, PhD

Speaker: Mihir Gupta, M.D. – Johns Hopkins University

Speaker: Samit Ghosh, PhD – Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh

Speaker: Daniel M. Sop, MS, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University

Chair: Wally R. Smith, MD – Virginia Commonwealth University

Keynote Speaker: Viola Davis

Keynote Speaker: Viola Davis

Speaker: Hyeseon Levitsky, PharmD – Larkin University