Google
Trusted Resources: People & Places
Healthcare providers, researchers, and advocates
Sickle Cell Program at UI Health
1740 W. Taylor St.Suite 5E
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Email Phone Web
The Sickle Cell Program at UI Health is the largest in the Midwest, providing individualized care for pediatric, transitional, and adult patients. Patients in the Sickle Cell Program have access to a number of supportive services, including: Counseling, Education and Outreach, Support Groups — pediatric and adult, National research studies.
For more than 50 years, UI Health has been a pioneer in sickle cell research and treatment. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals with sickle cell and reduce the prevalence and mortality of the disease.
Today, UI Health has cured 25 patients of sickle cell disease through bone marrow transplantation — 20 from matched sibling donors, 5 with half-matched relative donors — and without the need for preparative chemotherapy.
+myBinderRelated Content
-
Ahmar Urooj Zaidi, MDAhmar Urooj Zaidi is assistant professor...
-
Brandon Hardesty, MDBrandon Hardesty serves as an IHTC adult...
-
Ep. 30 Jordin Jackson ConversationMiracle kid Jordin Jackson speaks to liv...
-
GBT launches ACCEL grants program to improve access to care for people with Sickle cell diseaseGlobal Blood Therapeutics, Inc. (GBT) to...
-
Transforming Clinical Outcomes for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: The Power of Collaborative Patient-Provider Pa...Patients who understand their own health...
-
State of sickle cell disease – 2018 report cardSickle cell disease (SCD) — an inherit...
-
Why the NHS needs more black people to give bloodThe National Health Service's blood dona...
