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Miguel Abboud
Lebanon representative
Dr Miguel Abboud is Professor of Pediatrics, Hematology-oncology, Head of Sickle Cell Disease Program Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, AUB. Dr Abboud was the first medical director (and co-founder) of the Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon, he established a successful bone marrow transplant service, limb salvage surgery, and sickle cell disease programs as well as an acute lymphoblastic leukemia research protocol in collaboration with the Leukemia/Lymphoma Division at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, USA. The sickle cell program at AUBMC now provides comprehensive service to over 300 children and adolescents with this disease.
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Participate in a Study on Sickle Cell Disease Management in Nigeria
ARISE is conducting a questionnaire-based study, with the aim to map and analyse the organisation of the healthcare centres managing SCD in in relation with accessibility and readiness of specific health technologies (i.e., blood transfusion service, Magnetic...
An interview with a Sickle cell disease patient living in Portugal
Living with a rare disease like sickle cell disease is not easy. We asked a Portuguese patient to tell us about his experience with this disease. Read his story.
SAVE THE DATE – ARISE webinar on gene-therapy in Sickle Cell Disease and Transfusion-Dependent Thalassaemia
ARISE is organizing a webinar on gene-therapy (Exa-cel) in Sickle Cell Disease and Transfusion-Dependent Thalassaemia, that will be held online on Friday April 12th at 11 am UK time. The webinar will be hosted by Thomas Blair, Senior Medical Science Liaison for Vertex...