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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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New training material available: ARISE webinars on iron overload and MRI
ARISE highly appreciates the wide participation in the ARISE webinars on iron overload and the use of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Sickle Cell Disease
SAVE THE DATE – ARISE webinar on iron overload and MRI in SCD
We are glad to announce a new free series of ARISE webinars on iron overload and the use of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Sickle Cell Disease.
New article just published
The article Global Burden of Transfusion in Sickle Cell Disease is now available.