Sickle cell disease

Learning Hub

The modules in this section offer information and advice on guiding your teen, problem solving and communication. You are encouraged to go through one module each week.

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This learning hub was developed as part of a collaborative research project involving Seattle Children’s Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (SickKids), Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and Connecticut Children's Medical Center.

Some of the content in the sickle cell library (see the "About sickle cell disease" tab) is adapted, with permission, from content written by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Funding for this project was provided through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health. Grant number: RO1HD086978.

Principal Investigators: Drs. Tonya Palermo, Jennifer Stinson, and Carlton Dampier

Co-investigators: Drs. William Zempsky, Nitya Bakshi, Chitra Lalloo, Isaac Odame and Sherif Badawy