Cooley's Anemia

Organizers

Elliott Vichinsky, MD

Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland, Oakland, California
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Elliot Vichinsky is director of the Department of Hematology/Oncology at Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland. His research on thalassemia includes the study of iron metabolism, transfusion medicine, and fetal hemoglobin regulation. To better understand thalassemia-related iron toxicity, Dr. Vichinsky is exploring the role of inflammation on iron deposition and organ damage. He is conducting a comparison of iron toxicity in thalassemia and sickle cell anemia, and is evaluating new technologies to detect early iron-induced organ injury. Dr. Vichinsky is also involved in a collaborative study of thalassemia involving centers in Oakland, London, Toronto, and Sri Lanka. He is a principal investigator or co-investigator on several other thalassemia-related trials involving patients.

Prior to becoming director of the Department of Hematology/Oncology in 1995, Dr. Vichinsky served in several capacities as a researcher and clinician at the Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland beginning in 1981. He received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and his M.D. from State University of New York Downstate in Brooklyn.

Jayne Restivo

Cooley's Anemia Foundation, New York
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Jayne Restivo has served the Cooley's Anemia Foundation as National Executive Director since 2000. In that capacity, she has overseen broad changes in the administration of the Foundation and in the implementation of the Foundation's goals. Ms Restivo's responsibilities include synergizing the efforts of the National CAF office and the numerous CAF chapters throughout the country. She has been instrumental in the establishment of both the Thalassemia Clinical Research Network and the CDC's Thalassemia Prevention Education and Outreach initiative, and in restoration of funding for thalassemia-based programs for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.

Ms. Restivo formerly served as Vice President of Development for one of the oldest and largest foster care agencies in New York. Prior to this, she served as Executive Director/Vice President of Youth Programs for the American Heart Association, where she directed fundraising activities, educational programs and research and development projects. Ms. Restivo received a Kennedy fellowship to Fordham University, where she graduated with a B.S., and earned her M.S. from the College of New Rochelle.

Keynote Speaker

Sir David Weatherall, MD, FRS

John Radcliffe Hospital
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
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Speakers

Athanasios Aessopos MD, PhD

University of Athens Medical School
First Department of Internal Medicine
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Daniel Armstrong, PhD

University of Miami School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics (D-820)
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George F. Atweh, MD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
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Arthur Bank, MD

Columbia University
Department of Medicine and Genetics and Development
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Caterina Borgna-Pignatti, MD

University of Ferrara
Department of Pediatrics
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Gary M. Brittenham, MD

Columbia University Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics
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Maria Domenica Cappellini

University of Milan
Department of Internal Medicine
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David H.K. Chui, MD

Boston University School of Medicine
Department of Medicine and Pathology
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Alan Cohen, MD

The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Hematology
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Laurice Compagno, MA, CCLS

Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
Department of Hematology/Oncology
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Roland Fischer, PhD

University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf
Departments of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
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Suthat Fucharoen, MD

Institute of Science and Technology for Research and Development
Thalassemia Research Center
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Renzo Galanello, MD

Universita degli studi di Cagliari
Ospedale Microcitemico
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Javid Gaziev, MD

Mediterranean Institute of Hematology
International Center for Transplantation in Thalassemia and in Sickle Cell Anemia
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Patricia J. Giardina, MD

New York Presbyterian Hospital
Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
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Mark T. Gladwin, MD

National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
Laboratory of Chemical Biology
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Robert W. Grady, PhD

Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Department of Pediatrics
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Frank Grosveld, PhD

Erasmus Medical Center
Department of Cell Biology
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Paul Harmatz, MD

Children's Hospital Oakland
Department of Gastroenterology
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Chaim Hershko, MD

Shaare Zedek Medical Center
Department of Hematology
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Robert C. Hider, PhD

King's College London
Department of Pharmacy
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Douglas R. Higgs, MD

Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
MRC Molecular Hematology Unit
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Antonis Kattamis, MD

University of Athens
First Department of Pediatrics
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Anver Kouliev, MD, PhD

Reproductive Genetics Institute
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Frans A. Kuypers, PhD

Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
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Philippe Leboulch, MD

Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine
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Giorgio La Nasa, MD

R. Binaghi Hospital
Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
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Fred Lorey, PhD

California Department of Health Services
Department of Genetics
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Naomi L.C. Luban, MD

Children's National Medical Center
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
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Punam Malik, MD

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, USC
Department of Hematology-Oncology
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David I.K. Martin, MD

Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
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Marie Martin, RN

The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Hematology
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David G. Nathan, MD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Pediatric Oncology
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Ellis Neufeld, MD, PhD

Children's Hospital Boston
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Arthur Nienhuis, MD

St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
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Gargi Pahuja, MPH, JD

Thalassemia Action Group
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Dudley Pennell, FRCP, MD

Royal Brompton Hospital
Cardiovascular MR Unit
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Susan P. Perrine, MD

Boston University School of Medicine
Hemoglobinopathy-Thalassemia Research Unit
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Charles M. Peterson, MD

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Program Director
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Antonio Piga, MD

University of Torino
Department of Pediatrics
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Sergio Piomelli, MD

Columbia University
Pediatric Hematology Laboratory
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John B. Porter, MD

University College London
Department of Hematology
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Vinod K. Prasad, MD, MRCP

Duke University Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics
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Eliezer Rachmilewitz, MD

The Edith Wolfson Medical Center
Hematology Department
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Jayne Restivo

Cooley's Anemia Foundation
National Executive Director
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Griffin P. Rodgers, MD

National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
Molecular and Clinical Hematology Branch
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Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Tim St. Pierre, PhD

The University of Western Australia
School of Physics (M013)
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Rashid Shaikh, PhD

New York Academy of Sciences
Director of Programs
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Sylvia Titi Singer, MD

Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland
Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
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Frank Somma

Cooley's Anemia Foundation
President
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Virginia A. Stallings, MD

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Pediatrics
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Paul Telfer, DM, FRCP

St. Bartholomews and The Royal London Hospitals NHS Trust
and Queen Mary, University of London
Department of Hematology
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Elizabeth C. Theil, PhD

Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
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Tim M. Townes, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
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Elliott Vichinsky, MD

Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland
Department of Hematology/Oncology
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Mark Walters, MD

Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland
Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program
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Mitchell J. Weiss, MD, PhD

The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Pediatrics/Hematology
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John C. Wood, MD, PhD

Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles
Division of Cardiology
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