NIH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS
Episode 2011-02
Time: 01:00:15
Recorded January 12, 2011

Contemporary Clinical Medicine: Great Teachers
Sickle Cell Disease and Transfusion Therapy: Current Controversies
Kim Smith-Whitley, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Clinical Director, Division of Hematology, and
Director, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

GREAT TEACHERS
"Sickle Cell Disease and Transfusion Therapy: Current Controversies." The speaker is Dr. Kim Smith-Whitley, associate professor of pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is also clinical director, Division of Hematology, and director, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

ANNOUNCER: Discussing Outstanding Science of the Past, Present and Future - this is NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds.

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Greetings and welcome to NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds, recorded January 12, 2011 at America's Clinical Research Hospital, the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Today we have a special "Contemporary Clinical Medicine: Great Teachers Grand Rounds on the subject, "Sickle Cell Disease and Transfusion Therapy: Current Controversies." The speaker is Dr. Kim Smith-Whitley, associate professor of pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is also clinical director, Division of Hematology, and director, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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