James B. Herrick Symposium - Sickle Cell Disease Care and Research, Meeting & Events. NHLBI, NIH

James B. Herrick Symposium - Sickle Cell Disease Care and Research: Past, Present, and Future

In 1910, Dr. James B. Herrick, an attending physician at Presbyterian Hospital and professor of medicine at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois, published an article on the case of an anemic West Indian patient¹. Herrick’s clinical and laboratory findings of the patient’s "peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped” red blood corpuscles represent the first description of sickle cell anemia in Western medical literature.

To mark the centennial of the publication of Herrick’s case report, the National Institutes of Health is pleased to announce the James B. Herrick Symposium - Sickle Cell Disease Care and Research: Past, Present and Future to be held on November 16-17, 2010, on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. National and international experts in sickle cell care and research will examine the history and societal impact of the disease and place the disease within the context of existing and future basic, translational and clinical research. Invited speakers will address unresolved challenges and the ongoing burden of the disease. They will also focus on genetic, cellular and clinical perspectives across the lifespan, as well as existing therapeutic options and possible future treatments.

An interdisciplinary audience of scientists, practitioners, academicians, members of the sickle cell community and the public is expected to participate in this commemorative symposium. Please join us.

Confirmed Speakers:

Robert J. Adams, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina
Sonja L. Banks, Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc.
Mary Catherine Beach, M.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University
Vence L. Bonham, Jr., J.D., National Human Genome Research Institute
George R. Buchanan, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
H. Franklin Bunn, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Institutes of Health
Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., M.P.H., Vanderbilt School of Medicine
Duana Fullwiley, Ph.D., Harvard University
Frank Grosveld, Ph.D., Erasmus MC (The Netherlands)
Carlton Haywood, Jr., Ph.D., M.A., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert P. Hebbel, M.D., University of Minnesota
J. Hoxi Jones, Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Lanetta B. Jordan, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.P.H., Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. and Memorial Healthcare
System, Hollywood, FL
Sophie Lanzkron, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D., National Library of Medicine
Sebastian Lucas, FRCP, FRCPath, King's College London School of Medicine (United Kingdom)
Julie Makani, M.D., MRCP, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Tanzania)
Punam Malik, M.D., Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
John C. Morrison, M.D., University of Mississippi Medical Center
Robert Murray, M.D., Howard University Hospital
David Nathan, M.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Arthur W. Nienhuis, M.D., St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Stuart H. Orkin, M.D., Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Stephen Pemberton, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology
Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P., National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Carolyn Rouse, Ph.D., Princeton University
Alan N. Schechter, M.D., National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Graham R. Serjeant, M.D., FRCP, Sickle Cell Trust (Jamaica)
Susan B. Shurin, M.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Wally R. Smith, M.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
Swee Lay Thein, FRCPath., FRCP, D.Sc., F.Med.Sci., King’s College London (United Kingdom)
John F. Tisdale, M.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Tim M. Townes, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham
Elliott Vichinsky, M.D., Children’s Hospital and Research Center Oakland
Russell E. Ware, M.D., Ph.D., St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Sir David Weatherall, M.D., FRCP, FRS, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Wanda Whitten-Shurney, M.D., Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Clifford Woolf, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Barbara Yawn, M.D., M.Sc., University of Minnesota

Scientific Organizing Committee:

Chair: W. Keith Hoots, M.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Vence L. Bonham, Jr., J.D., National Human Genome Research Institute
Donna Dimichele, M.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Jonathan C. Goldsmith, M.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Stephen C. Groft, Pharm.D., Office of Rare Diseases Research
Liana Harvath, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Joyce A. Hunter, Ph.D., National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Regina James, M.D., National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Harvey Luksenburg, M.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Dever Powell, M.S.L.I.S., National Library of Medicine
Jeffrey S. Reznick, Ph.D., National Library of Medicine
Alan N. Schechter, M.D., National Institute on Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Susan B. Shurin, M.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Danilo A. Tagle, Ph.D., National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Ellen M. Werner, Ph.D, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Daniel Wright, M.D., National Institute on Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases