2008 Woodie Awards
USA hosts sickle cell conference
Leigh Patton
Managing Editor
Issue date: 4/14/08 Section: News
The University of South Alabama Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and the Office of Continuing Medical Education are sponsoring a one-day conference featuring guest lecturers Dr. Cage S. Johnson and Dr. Cecil Parker, who are experts in sickle cell disease and USA professors speaking of the topic April 19.
The idea of the conference is "Hypercoagulability in Sickle Cell Disease -- Perception or Reality."
It is the discussion of the modern aspects of the treatment of sickle cell and its complications. It is for allied health personnel, physicians and nurses who care for patients who have sickle cell disease.
The objectives in which the lecture will focus on are the potential risks related to clotting in sickle cell disease; forms of birth control as a risk versus benefit in sickle cell disease; is hypercoagulability is a factor in the pediatric population; and if the contribution of renal of renal disease and protein wasting factor into the sickle cell disease.
"This is the 8th conference sponsored by the University of South Alabama Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center that addresses clinical issues related to SCD," said Dr. Haynes, director of USA Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and a professor at the internal medicine department. "This conference carries special importance because we are honoring Dr. Cecil Parker."
Parker was the director of the Adult Sickle Cell Clinic for the USA Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center for nine years.
Dr. Errol Crook, professor and chair of the department of internal medicine, will speak about protein wasting nephropathy and hypercoagulability.
Dr. Moshood Olatinwo, assistant professor in the obstetrics/gynecology department, will discuss hormonal contraception and the risk of thromboembolism in women with sickle cell diseases: What does it mean to clinicians and their patients?
Dr. Hamayun Imran, assistant professor in the pediatric hematology/oncology department, will lecture about hypercoagulability in children with sickle cell disease and what doctors know about it.
Johnson is the director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and a professor at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, Calif.
Parker practiced general internal medicine in Mobile, Ala. for more than 22 years.
Parker resigned as director of USA Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center after nine years but still remains to be the largest provider of adult sickle cell care in Mobile and supports the USA Sickle Cell Center.
The conference will be held April 19 at USA's Medical Center Conference Center. Tickets are $40 for pre-registration and $45 if registering on site. For USA nurses and physicians, it's $20 for pre-registration and $25 for on-site registration.
For more information regarding the conference, call (251) 470-5893.
The idea of the conference is "Hypercoagulability in Sickle Cell Disease -- Perception or Reality."
It is the discussion of the modern aspects of the treatment of sickle cell and its complications. It is for allied health personnel, physicians and nurses who care for patients who have sickle cell disease.
The objectives in which the lecture will focus on are the potential risks related to clotting in sickle cell disease; forms of birth control as a risk versus benefit in sickle cell disease; is hypercoagulability is a factor in the pediatric population; and if the contribution of renal of renal disease and protein wasting factor into the sickle cell disease.
"This is the 8th conference sponsored by the University of South Alabama Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center that addresses clinical issues related to SCD," said Dr. Haynes, director of USA Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and a professor at the internal medicine department. "This conference carries special importance because we are honoring Dr. Cecil Parker."
Parker was the director of the Adult Sickle Cell Clinic for the USA Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center for nine years.
Dr. Errol Crook, professor and chair of the department of internal medicine, will speak about protein wasting nephropathy and hypercoagulability.
Dr. Moshood Olatinwo, assistant professor in the obstetrics/gynecology department, will discuss hormonal contraception and the risk of thromboembolism in women with sickle cell diseases: What does it mean to clinicians and their patients?
Dr. Hamayun Imran, assistant professor in the pediatric hematology/oncology department, will lecture about hypercoagulability in children with sickle cell disease and what doctors know about it.
Johnson is the director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and a professor at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, Calif.
Parker practiced general internal medicine in Mobile, Ala. for more than 22 years.
Parker resigned as director of USA Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center after nine years but still remains to be the largest provider of adult sickle cell care in Mobile and supports the USA Sickle Cell Center.
The conference will be held April 19 at USA's Medical Center Conference Center. Tickets are $40 for pre-registration and $45 if registering on site. For USA nurses and physicians, it's $20 for pre-registration and $25 for on-site registration.
For more information regarding the conference, call (251) 470-5893.
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