Grand Rounds: Sickle Cell Disease, The Emergence of a New Dawn
Event Date & Time
August 5, 2022Location
Event Details:
Date: Friday, August 5, 2022
Time: 7:30-8:30 a.m. CST
Location: Long School of Medicine, Rm 4.409-410L
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Conference ID: 110 958 175# Pediatric Grand Rounds
Speaker: Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, MD
Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, MD, has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Dr. Lakshmann Krishnamurti, is Professor Pediatrics and Chief of Section of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/BMT at Yale School of Medicine. He is a pediatric hematologist oncologist of over 25 years standing with a primary research focus interest in sickle cell disease (SCD). Dr. Krishnamurti’s main areas of interest are clinical and patient-centered outcomes research in SCD. His areas of focus include pain, newborn screening, community and international outreach, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and gene therapy. His research has been funded by NHLBI, NICHD, CDC, HRSA, PCORI, Cooley’s Anemia Foundation and Abraham and Phyllis Katz Foundation. He is currently the PI of an NHLBI U01 grant for a multicenter study of HCT for young adults with SCD.
Disclosure to Learners
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator.
Continuing Medical Education Statements
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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