Thursday, September 19th
Plenary Session I: Opening Remarks and Welcome

• Lennette J. Benjamin, M.D., Convention Co-Chair
  SCDAA Chief Medical Officer and Associate Professor of Medicine
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  http://www.aecom.yu.edu/home/
  
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  Lennette J. Benjamin, M.D.
  

• Barbara Alving, M.D., Deputy Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm
  
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• Katie G. Dorsett, Ed.D., National Board Chair
  Sickle Cell Disease Association of America  
  http://www.sicklecelldisease.org/chair.htm
  
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  Katie G. Dorsett, Ed.D.
  
  
• Introduction of Keynote Speaker:
  Charles M. Peterson, M.D., Convention Co-Chair and Director of Division of Blood Diseases and Resources
  National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/blood/index.htm#scd
  
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• Keynote Address:
  Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Sickle Cell Program
  Ronald L. Nagel, M.D., Director
  Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and Professor of Medicine
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  http://www.aecom.yu.edu/home/
  
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• Introduction of Speaker:
  The Charles F. Whitten Lecture
  Lennette J. Benjamin, M.D., Convention Co-Chair
  
  Charles F. Whitten Lecture:
  “Ethnic Disparities and Healthy People 2010: A Need for Advocacy and Action”
  The Honorable Donna Christian-Christensen, M.D., U.S. House of Representatives US Virgin Islands
  http://www.house.gov/christian-christensen/
  
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  Lennette Benjamin, M.D. and
  Congresswoman Donna Christensen, M.D.
  
  
  Charles F. Whitten, M.D., Founder, President Emeritus, SCDAA

• Introduction of Roland Scott Lecture
  by Charles F. Whitten:
  
  Roland Scott Lecture: 
  “International Collaboration in Sickle Cell Disease”
  Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, M.D. 
  
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  Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, M.D.
  
  
• Sickle Cell Disease:
  A Personal Perspective
  J. Hoxi Jones-Carranza
  http://www.dhs.state.tx.us/regions/06/outreach/index.html
  
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