SCIF 2012
SICKLE CELL IN FOCUS 2012 PROGRAMME

Another successful year! Thank you to everyone involved for contributing to such an engaging and interesting two days. If you would like to be included on the mailing list, please send an email to Annabelle at: info@ststn.co.uk.
Until next year!
KEY INFORMATION:
- 24-25 May 2012, King’s College London Denmark Hill campus, London SE5 9RJ
- The programme has now been finalised and can be downloaded here: Sickle Cell in Focus 2012 programme (pdf 425kb)
- Registration prices vary from £100 – £350
- SCiF 2012 has received 13 EHA-CME accreditation points

PROGRAMME

Thursday 24 May 2012
08:50 – 09:00 Welcome from Michael Parker, President, Sickle Cell Society
- SESSION 1: SICKLE CELL DISEASE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
10:30 – 11:00 Mid-morning break (James Black Centre foyer)


- SESSION 2: SICKLE CELL: BOTH A QUALITATIVE AND A QUANTITATIVE TRAIT
11:50 – 12:15 Limitations of HbF as a phenotype modifier
Adekunle Adekile, Kuwait University, Kuwait
- SESSION 3: COMPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES
12:15 – 12:40 Heart and pulmonary vasculature in sickle cell disease
Gerry Coghlan, Royal Free Hospital, UK
12:40 – 14:00 Extended buffet lunch (James Black Centre foyer)
14:00 – 14:30 Stroke prevention: 20 years on
Robert Adams, MUSC Stroke Center, USA
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon break (James Black Centre foyer)
- SESSION 4: COMPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES
16:00 – 16:30 Managing pregnancy in sickle cell disease
Jo Howard, Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital, UK
17:30 DAY ONE CLOSE
Friday 25 May 2012
08:50 – 09:00 Welcome from Alan McGregor, Campus Dean, King’s Denmark Hill campus
- SESSION 1 COMPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES
09:30 – 10:05 The many faces of sickle cell pain
Samir Ballas, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
10:05 – 10:35 Bone and joint complications
Marcus Bankes, Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital, UK
10:35 – 11:05 Iron overload
John Porter, University College London, UK
11:05 – 11:35 Mid-morning break (James Black Centre foyer)
- SESSION 2 THE HAEMOLYSIS PARADIGM IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE
12:35 – 12:55 Discussion
12:55 – 13:55 Buffet lunch (James Black Centre foyer)
- SESSION 3 EVOLVING CONCEPTS AND EMERGING THERAPIES
15:55 – 16:25 Afternoon break (James Black Centre foyer)
- SESSION 4 BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT
16:25 – 16:55 Bone marrow transplant in children
Josu de la Fuente, Imperial College London, UK
17:25 CONFERENCE CLOSE