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Hematology Treatment Team
St. Jude has a large outpatient clinic setting with a dedicated area for children with sickle cell disease. Children are seen five days a week in designated clinics (sickle cell, hemostasis, general hematology, and bone marrow failure) with variable frequency depending upon age, clinical need, treatment regimen, and research protocols.
Each clinic has a team permanently assigned to promote continuity of care. The sickle cell clinics are divided into age-based clinics: Infant/Toddler; School-Age; Teen Clinic; and a collaborative Transition clinic at the adult comprehensive sickle cell center.
Leadership
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Mitchell Weiss, MD, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Chair, Hematology Department
Arthur Nienhuis Endowed Chair in Hematology
Mitchell Weiss, MD, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Chair, Hematology Department
Arthur Nienhuis Endowed Chair in Hematology
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Mechanisms of gene expression during blood cell development
- Non-coding RNAs in red blood cell formation, including microRNAs and long non-coding RNAs
- Use of induced pluripotent stem cells to model human blood disorders including leukemia
- Structure and biology of hemoglobins
- Role of ubiquitin ligases in red blood cell development
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Mitchell Weiss, MD, PhD
Hematology
MS 800, Room D3022D
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Cliff Takemoto, MD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Clinical Hematology
Lemuel Diggs Endowed Chair in Sickle Cell Disease
Cliff Takemoto, MD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Clinical Hematology
Lemuel Diggs Endowed Chair in Sickle Cell Disease
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Hemostasis and thrombosis
- Vascular malformations
- Bone marrow failure
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Cliff Takemoto, MD
Hematology
MS 355, Room R5006
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Physicians
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Nidhi Bhatt, MD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Health communication and implementation science with a focus on health literacy and health numeracy in adolescent patients with chronic diseases such as hemophilia, von Willebrand disease, sickle cell diseases and thalassemia
- Hemostasis/thrombosis with special interest in hemostasis (bleeding disorders)
- Transition of hemophilia patients from pediatric to adult care
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Nidhi Bhatt, MD
Hematology
MS 800, Room R5004
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Jane S. Hankins, MD, MS
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, St. Jude Global Hematology Program
Jane S. Hankins, MD, MS
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, St. Jude Global Hematology Program
Affiliations
Clinical Interests
- New therapeutic approaches in sickle cell disease
- Transition to adult care
- Disease progression
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Jane S. Hankins, MD, MS
Global Pediatric Medicine
MS 721, Room 4027
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Rohith Jesudas, MD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Hemostasis and thrombosis
- Immune cytopenias
- Developing and implementing integrated care programs for patients with chronic hematological disease
Clinical Interests
- Non-malignant hematology
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Rohith Jesudas, MD
Hematology
MS 800, Room R5008
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Alexis K. Leonard, MD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Curative strategies for sickle cell disease
- Gene therapy for sickle cell disease and other hemoglobinopathies
- Hematopoietic stem cell mobilization
- Sickle cell disease advocacy
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Alexis K. Leonard, MD
Hematology
MS 800, Room R5005
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Yogindra Persaud, MD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- The role of micronutrients in modulating the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease
- Use of homeopathic remedies in improving pain physiology in patients with sickle cell disease
- Investigating the use of novel immune therapies in patients with autoimmune cytopenias who are refractory to IvIg and steroids
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Yogindra Persaud, MD
Hospitalist Service
MS 260, Room C2221
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Parul Rai, MD
Instructor, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Identifying risk factors and understanding the etiology of cardiac injury in sickle cell disease
- Effects of disease-modifying therapies on sickle cell-related cardiac injury
Clinical Interests
- Sickle cell disease
- Thalassemia
- Anemia
- Chronic transfusion therapy
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Parul Rai, MD
Hematology
MS 800, Room R5044
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Ulrike M. Reiss, MD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Hemophilia Treatment Center
Ulrike M. Reiss, MD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Hemophilia Treatment Center
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Bleeding disorders
- Thrombosis
- Bone marrow failure syndromes
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Ulrike M. Reiss, MD
Hematology
MS 800, Room R5006
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
