Sickle Cell Awareness Month Webinar Series

We hope you will join us for our 2020 Sickle Cell Awareness Month webinar series.  The theme is “Innovations to Improve Sickle Cell Services Care, Systems, Clinical Workforce and Address Disparities”.  The series is being hosted by the Pacific Sickle Cell Regional Collaborative and the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Regions 6, 8, 9 & 10.  See attached announcements.  Pre-registration is NOT required.  Use the WebEx connection information below to join the meeting on the day of the webinar.   Webinar 1: Innovations in building sustainable Statewide Health Systems Improvements for Sickle Cell Disease:  Networking California for Sickle Cell Care (NCSCC) Date/Time: 9/24/2020 from 11 AM – Noon PT Presenters:  Mary Brown, CEO, Sickle Cell Disease Foundation, Ontario, CA; Tony Gonzalez, London and Gonzalez Advocacy, Sacramento, CA; Judith Baker, DrPH, MHSA, Public Health Director, Center for Inherited Blood Disorders, Orange, CA; Diane Nugent, MD, , Founding Medical Director, Center for Inherited Blood Disorders Join Meeting Webinar 2: Innovations in Sickle Cell Disease Care:  Collaboration with Community Health Workers on the SCD Clinical Team. Date/Time: 9/30/2020 from 11 AM – Noon PT Presenters: Susan Claster, MD, Hematologist and Anthony Wells, Community Health Worker at Jeffrey Smith Adult Sickle Cell Clinic at MLK Jr. Outpatient Center, Los Angeles, CA  Join Meeting Webinar 3 Understanding and Addressing Sickle Cell Disease Healthcare Disparities.  Date/Time: 10/1/2020 from 11 AM – Noon PT Presenters:  Marsha Treadwell, PhD Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, UCSF School of Medicine, and Jordan Fund Endowed Chair, Department of Hematology/Oncology, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland; and Wally Smith, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University. Scientific Director, VCU Center on Health Disparities and Director, VCU Adult Sickle Cell Program Join Meeting Webinar 4: Innovations in Sickle Cell Disease Clinical Workforce:  Building Next Gen Advance Practice Providers – the Mini-credential for Physician Assistants Date/Time: 10/8/2020 from 11 AM – Noon  Pacific Presenters:  Sandra Fineman, PA-C; Director of Clinical Education, Marshall B. Ketchum University School of PA Studies, Fullerton, CA; and  Judith Baker, DrPH, MHSA, Director of Public Health, Center for Inherited Blood Disorders; Orange, CA. Join Meeting