Data science -- often discussed with terms like artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, data goverernance -- has the potential to transform every aspect of health care, from the patient experience to how, when and where care is provided, and improving outcomes. In this Transformational Pediatrics episode, Mark Hoffman, PhD, Chief Research Information Officer at Children's Mercy Kansas City, discusses the challenges and opportunities for data science within pediatric health care and gives examples where it is already making a difference for children today.

Data science -- often discussed with terms like artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, data goverernance -- has the potential to transform every aspect of health care, from the patient experience to how, when and where care is provided, and improving outcomes. In this Transformational Pediatrics episode, Mark Hoffman, PhD, Chief Research Information Officer at Children's Mercy Kansas City, discusses the challenges and opportunities for data science within pediatric health care and gives examples where it is already making a difference for children today.

Data Science: Informing Better Health Care Decisions

The health care sector has begun to embrace coaching to promote resilience and innovation during a time of massive disruption while also cultivating healthier workplace cultures. In this podcast, Alyssa Stephany, MD, Director of the Physician Leadership Center at Children's Mercy Kansas City shares how professional and peer coaching can help reduce burnout, increase job satisfaction, and improve the overall provider experience of health care, while also having a positive effect on patient care.

The health care sector has begun to embrace coaching to promote resilience and innovation during a time of massive disruption while also cultivating healthier workplace cultures. In this podcast, Alyssa Stephany, MD, Director of the Physician Leadership Center at Children's Mercy Kansas City shares how professional and peer coaching can help reduce burnout, increase job satisfaction, and improve the overall provider experience of health care, while also having a positive effect on patient care.

Professional Coaching in Medicine and Health Care

Nearly 1 in 5 children in the United States live in rural areas. Rural children experience health and health care disparities compared to their urban peers and represent a unique and vulnerable pediatric patient population. Important disparities exist in all-cause mortality, suicide, firearm-related unintentional injury, and obesity. In this episode, Dr. Jessica Bettenhausen discusses research into these disparities, their causes and potential actions to address them.

Health and Poverty of Rural Children

What is informatics and why is it important in health care? Listen as Jill Westcott, MD, MS, FACOG, Physician Informaticist for the Fetal Health Center at Children's Mercy, shares her expertise on the topic and how informatics is improving patient outcomes in fetal health.

Health Care Informatics

The Children’s Mercy Research Institute® is undertaking a research initiative to build a first-of-its-kind pediatric data repository to facilitate the search for answers and novel treatments for pediatric genetic conditions. Our goal is to collect genomic data and health information for 30,000 children and their families over the next seven years, creating a database of nearly 100,000 genomes.

Genomic Answers for Kids Establishes New Paradigm in Rare Disease Research

How do we create a healthier future for children?  The Children's Mercy Research Institute with a core focus on genomics, personalized therapeutics, population health, health care innovation and bioethics is positioned to fundamentally transform pediatric research and create a world of well-being for all children. Listen as Thomas Curran, PhD, FRS, Chief Scientific Officer, discusses the institute and the future of pediatric research.

Transforming Pediatric Research

Children’s Mercy Kansas City is recognized as one of the top 10 nephrology programs in the nation by U.S. News &amp; World Report, and the kidney transplant program has incorporated a number of innovative practices into their management plan that are designed to enhance patient outcomes. Join us as Dr. Bradley Warady discusses how the program’s personalized approach to meeting each patient’s unique needs — including repeated surveillance biopsies, epitope matching and pharmacokinetic assessment of immunosuppressive medication — has contributed to a 100% three-year patient and graft survival rate for the past six years.

Achieving Transplant Excellence Through Personalized Medicine

To reduce the risk of complications related to hemodialysis, the Children’s Mercy Kansas City Division of Nephrology has implemented several strategies. Listen as Dr. Bradley Warady shares how the institution of standardized infection prevention practices has resulted in more than 1,200 consecutive days without an outpatient central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI) in a hemodialysis (HD) patient. In addition, Dr. Warady discusses how vascular preservation protocols also are improving the long-term venous access options for these and future patients.

Pediatric Hemodialysis and Advances in Infection Prevention and Vascular Preservation

Devika Maulik MD shares her translational research as it relates to folic acid and different responses to dosing among women of various races and ethnicities. She is using the information gathered to create recommended guidelines for folic acid dosing. She discusses current literature on this topic, as well as her studies in this area.

Impact of Race & Ethnicity on Responses to Folic Acid Dosing

Dr. Christina Low Kapalu discusses cases and literature surrounding pediatric recurrent intentional foreign body ingestion.

Pediatric Recurrent Intentional Foreign Body Ingestion: Case Series and Review of the Literature

Transformational Pediatrics features interviews with physicians and researchers at Children’s Mercy Kansas City who are transforming pediatric care through genomic medicine, personalized therapeutics, health services and outcomes research, and innovations in health care delivery.

Transformational Pediatrics

It's been almost five years since pulse oximetry screening was recommended to be added to the uniform screening panel for newborns. While Missouri and Kansas each took different approaches, pulse oximetry screening for CCHD in the newborn nursery is now almost universal in the United States. Prior to oximetry screening, about 20% of newborns with CCHD left the hospital with undiagnosed heart defects. Now that number is much, much smaller. Listen in as Dr. Stephen Kaine, Children’s Mercy cardiologist, discusses the implementation process for the screening, reporting, and outcomes.

It's been almost five years since pulse oximetry screening was recommended to be added to the uniform screening panel for newborns. While Missouri and Kansas each took different approaches, pulse oximetry screening for CCHD in the newborn nursery is now almost universal in the United States. Prior to oximetry screening, about 20% of newborns with CCHD left the hospital with undiagnosed heart defects. Now that number is much, much smaller. Listen in as Dr. Stephen Kaine, Children’s Mercy cardiologist, discusses the implementation process for the screening, reporting, and outcomes.

Pulse Ox Screening for Newborns: Is It Making A Difference?

A newly FDA approved procedure has the power to save children from a painful cornea transplant. Keratoconus presents in about 1:2000, with a high prevalence in the Down Syndrome population. The disease causes the cornea to become thin and bulge. Corneal crosslinking improves the connections among the membranes of the cornea by a factor of four, preventing the need for a cornea transplant. Erin Stahl, MD is here to explain that Children’s Mercy Kansas City provided one of the first FDA-approved pediatric treatments in February 2017, providing new hope for Keratoconus.

A newly FDA approved procedure has the power to save children from a painful cornea transplant. Keratoconus presents in about 1:2000, with a high prevalence in the Down Syndrome population. The disease causes the cornea to become thin and bulge. Corneal crosslinking improves the connections among the membranes of the cornea by a factor of four, preventing the need for a cornea transplant. Erin Stahl, MD is here to explain that Children’s Mercy Kansas City provided one of the first FDA-approved pediatric treatments in February 2017, providing new hope for Keratoconus.

Crossing Over: How a New Procedure Heals Keratoconus

Each year 13,000 to 15,000 extremely premature infants develop severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Despite major advances in neonatal intensive care and improved survival of infants born very prematurely BPD rates have not decreased over the last decade. While there are several reasons for this, a lack of understanding of the various paths to this disease, and the absence of personalized therapies have contributed to this problem. Researchers at the Donald Thibeault Lung and Immunology laboratories are focusing their efforts on understanding how bacterial blood stream infections injures the developing lung and cause BPD in premature infants. Recently, Venkatesh Sampath, MBBS, MRCPCh, a physician-scientist with Neonatology at Children’s Mercy hospital was awarded a five-year grant by the National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLBI) to study the role of inflammatory angiogenesis in the developing lung. The major goal of this project is to understand how pulmonary endothelial immune activation during sepsis promotes lung inflammation and alters the formation of lung blood vessels predisposing to BPD. In collaboration with other researchers in the laboratory, center for infant pulmonary disorders, and clinicians in the NICU we hope to develop strategies and new therapies to decrease the burden of BPD. Hear from Venkatesh Sampath, MBBS, MRCPCh on what their ongoing research tells us about how babies develop BPD and the other studies that are underway to investigate and treat BPD at CMH and Neonatology.

Each year 13,000 to 15,000 extremely premature infants develop severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Despite major advances in neonatal intensive care and improved survival of infants born very prematurely BPD rates have not decreased over the last decade. While there are several reasons for this, a lack of understanding of the various paths to this disease, and the absence of personalized therapies have contributed to this problem. Researchers at the Donald Thibeault Lung and Immunology laboratories are focusing their efforts on understanding how bacterial blood stream infections injures the developing lung and cause BPD in premature infants. Recently, Venkatesh Sampath, MBBS, MRCPCh, a physician-scientist with Neonatology at Children’s Mercy hospital was awarded a five-year grant by the National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLBI) to study the role of inflammatory angiogenesis in the developing lung. The major goal of this project is to understand how pulmonary endothelial immune activation during sepsis promotes lung inflammation and alters the formation of lung blood vessels predisposing to BPD. In collaboration with other researchers in the laboratory, center for infant pulmonary disorders, and clinicians in the NICU we hope to develop strategies and new therapies to decrease the burden of BPD. Hear from Venkatesh Sampath, MBBS, MRCPCh on what their ongoing research tells us about how babies develop BPD and the other studies that are underway to investigate and treat BPD at CMH and Neonatology.

Bench to Bedside: Research Focused on Improving BPD Outcomes

The award-winning Children’s Mercy Transport team has partnered with the Elizabeth J. Ferrell Fetal Health Center to provide safe and specialized transport for pregnant women needing immediate access to a higher level of care. This new service provides an invaluable resource for our region to ensure immediate transportation is offered, to the best place of care, for both mom and unborn baby. Hear from Sherry McCool, RRT-NPS, MHA, CMTE and Melanie Foltz, MSN, RN, on the benefits it will offer our region.

The award-winning Children’s Mercy Transport team has partnered with the Elizabeth J. Ferrell Fetal Health Center to provide safe and specialized transport for pregnant women needing immediate access to a higher level of care. This new service provides an invaluable resource for our region to ensure immediate transportation is offered, to the best place of care, for both mom and unborn baby. Hear from Sherry McCool, RRT-NPS, MHA, CMTE and Melanie Foltz, MSN, RN, on the benefits it will offer our region.

Maternal Fetal Transport: Ensuring the Best Care for Expecting Mothers

Dr. Nathan Fleishman discusses the clinical characteristics of fractures in pediatric patients exposed to PPIs.

Clinical Characteristics of Fractures in Pediatric Patients Exposed to PPIs

Patients that have residual leukemia stem cells after chemotherapy and other treatments have substantially higher risk for relapse. Survival rates for relapsed leukemia are very poor. Even when patients survive long-term, the very toxic anti-cancer treatments are escalated in treating relapsed leukemia. This particularly risks long-term health and substantially increases the risk of early death due to side-effects of the treatment itself. John Perry, PhD, faculty member of the Children's Research Institute at Children's Mercy Kansas City is studying how leukemia stem cells resist current anti-cancer treatments. Join us for this podcast as Dr. Perry discusses the promise of low-dose doxorubicin as a targeted therapy against leukemia stem cells rather than a broadly toxic chemotherapy drug.

Patients that have residual leukemia stem cells after chemotherapy and other treatments have substantially higher risk for relapse. Survival rates for relapsed leukemia are very poor. Even when patients survive long-term, the very toxic anti-cancer treatments are escalated in treating relapsed leukemia. This particularly risks long-term health and substantially increases the risk of early death due to side-effects of the treatment itself. John Perry, PhD, faculty member of the Children's Research Institute at Children's Mercy Kansas City is studying how leukemia stem cells resist current anti-cancer treatments. Join us for this podcast as Dr. Perry discusses the promise of low-dose doxorubicin as a targeted therapy against leukemia stem cells rather than a broadly toxic chemotherapy drug.

Targeted Therapy to Reduce Relapse of Pediatric Leukemia

It’s well-accepted that there are a variety of complex pathways that contribute to abdominal pain in children; but what are these pathways, and how can they be measured? By combining the data from mobile body sensors and self-reporting from participants, researchers at Children’s Mercy Kansas City were able apply “big data” to identify pain triggers for each individual patient. The results were very encouraging. Join Dr. Jennifer Schurman with the Division of Gastroenterology at Children’s Mercy Kansas City as she introduces us to the importance of monitoring and collecting data on triggers for abdominal pain and the value that data holds for individualizing pain treatment in the clinic setting, real-time.

It’s well-accepted that there are a variety of complex pathways that contribute to abdominal pain in children; but what are these pathways, and how can they be measured? By combining the data from mobile body sensors and self-reporting from participants, researchers at Children’s Mercy Kansas City were able apply “big data” to identify pain triggers for each individual patient. The results were very encouraging. Join Dr. Jennifer Schurman with the Division of Gastroenterology at Children’s Mercy Kansas City as she introduces us to the importance of monitoring and collecting data on triggers for abdominal pain and the value that data holds for individualizing pain treatment in the clinic setting, real-time.

Chronic Abdominal Pain Triggers: Is Personalized Assessment Feasible?

Children’s Mercy is one of only a handful of programs across the nation using a unique bridging technique called Rapid Exchange of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (RECRRT) for children diagnosed with acute kidney injury. By consistently using RECRRT, Children’s Mercy has become proficient in the bridging technique, resulting in significantly less blood exposure and therapy downtime for these critically ill children. The technique’s primary goal is to reduce exposure to blood products for these patients. Vimal Chadha, MD, Pediatric Nephrologist explains how this technique helps lower the risk for iron overload, transfusion reactions, exposure to infectious agents and sensitization to different antigens that could jeopardize a future kidney transplant.

Children’s Mercy is one of only a handful of programs across the nation using a unique bridging technique called Rapid Exchange of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (RECRRT) for children diagnosed with acute kidney injury. By consistently using RECRRT, Children’s Mercy has become proficient in the bridging technique, resulting in significantly less blood exposure and therapy downtime for these critically ill children. The technique’s primary goal is to reduce exposure to blood products for these patients. Vimal Chadha, MD, Pediatric Nephrologist explains how this technique helps lower the risk for iron overload, transfusion reactions, exposure to infectious agents and sensitization to different antigens that could jeopardize a future kidney transplant.

Rapid Exchange of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy for Acute Kidney Injury

Childhood obesity is a growing problem across the US, particularly in rural areas. Rural children are disproportionately affected by obesity due at least in part to limited resources. Ann Davis, MPH, PhD, ABPP, and her team of co-investigators are trying to change that through a remotely delivered, family-based obesity intervention. iAmHealthy is composed of a 25-hour behavioral intervention focused on nutrition, physical activity and behavioral change. Families receive eight weekly group sessions followed by monthly group sessions, in addition to individual family-based health behavior coaching.Listen as Ann Davis, MPH, PhD, ABPP discusses the iAmHealthy program at Children's Mercy.

Childhood obesity is a growing problem across the US, particularly in rural areas. Rural children are disproportionately affected by obesity due at least in part to limited resources. Ann Davis, MPH, PhD, ABPP, and her team of co-investigators are trying to change that through a remotely delivered, family-based obesity intervention. iAmHealthy is composed of a 25-hour behavioral intervention focused on nutrition, physical activity and behavioral change. Families receive eight weekly group sessions followed by monthly group sessions, in addition to individual family-based health behavior coaching. Listen as Ann Davis, MPH, PhD, ABPP discusses the iAmHealthy program at Children's Mercy.

Rural Disparities in Pediatric Obesity: The iAmHealthy Intervention

Managing chronic pain in the pediatric patient can be a challenge, not only for the patient, but for their caregivers. The introduction to biobehavioral and congestive behavioral pain management strategies can help patients cope with the everyday pain. Dustin Wallace, PhD, started the Comfort Ability workshop, led by staff psychologists from Children’s Mercy. This one day interactive workshop has been designed to teach new strategies to manage pain and improve day-to-day function. Listen in to Dustin Wallace, PhD as he explains how the program emphasizes mind-body strategies for managing pain and pain-related stress, as well as individualized coping plans for improved pain management. Caregivers also gain an understanding of how to better support their child through their pain.

Managing chronic pain in the pediatric patient can be a challenge, not only for the patient, but for their caregivers. The introduction to biobehavioral and congestive behavioral pain management strategies can help patients cope with the everyday pain. Dustin Wallace, PhD, started the Comfort Ability workshop, led by staff psychologists from Children’s Mercy. This one day interactive workshop has been designed to teach new strategies to manage pain and improve day-to-day function. Listen in to Dustin Wallace, PhD as he explains how the program emphasizes mind-body strategies for managing pain and pain-related stress, as well as individualized coping plans for improved pain management. Caregivers also gain an understanding of how to better support their child through their pain.

The Comfort Ability: Addressing Pain Management Strategies in Pediatric Patients

Dr. Kelsee Halpin discusses Endocrinology and Diabetes.

Preventing Type 2 Diabetes

Neonatal pharmacotherapy is a field ripe with opportunity. Efficacy and toxicity is unpredictable and varies greatly for many drug classes commonly used. Weight-based dosing continues to be the standard of care as individualized drug markers are lacking. To better understand variability in drug response, the focus must shift from drug dosing to drug exposure. Tamorah Lewis, MD, neonatologist and clinical pharmacologist, joins us to discuss how pharmacotherapy and individualized medicine can transform care for critically ill newborns.

Neonatal pharmacotherapy is a field ripe with opportunity. Efficacy and toxicity is unpredictable and varies greatly for many drug classes commonly used. Weight-based dosing continues to be the standard of care as individualized drug markers are lacking. To better understand variability in drug response, the focus must shift from drug dosing to drug exposure. Tamorah Lewis, MD, neonatologist and clinical pharmacologist, joins us to discuss how pharmacotherapy and individualized medicine can transform care for critically ill newborns.

Precision Therapeutics in the NICU

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented work environment for pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists. How we practice medicine has been dramatically changed. When discussing physical precautions such as PPE and social distancing, provider mental well-being also should be a part of the conversation. In this podcast, Jennifer Bickel, MD, pediatric neurologist and Medical Director of the Children’s Mercy Center for Professional Well-Being, discusses how pediatricians have responded to the pandemic on a personal and professional level, the impact on physical and mental health, adjusting to the decrease in patient and peer contact, warning signs of burnout and mental health issues, steps Children’s Mercy is taking to address physician well-being, and more.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented work environment for pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists. How we practice medicine has been dramatically changed. When discussing physical precautions such as PPE and social distancing, provider mental well-being also should be a part of the conversation. In this podcast, Jennifer Bickel, MD, pediatric neurologist and Medical Director of the Children’s Mercy Center for Professional Well-Being, discusses how pediatricians have responded to the pandemic on a personal and professional level, the impact on physical and mental health, adjusting to the decrease in patient and peer contact, warning signs of burnout and mental health issues, steps Children’s Mercy is taking to address physician well-being, and more.

Pediatric Provider Well-Being and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pediatric Osteosarcoma

Osteosarcoma is highly metastatic and drug-resistant cancer. The survival rate for metastatic osteosarcoma remains less than 20 percent for the last 40 years. Tomoo Iwakuma, MD, PhD, is leading research focused on the elucidation of mechanisms underlying osteosarcoma progression and the discovery of novel drugs against this osteosarcoma. His laboratory has identified a lead compound that specifically killed canine and human osteosarcoma cells lacking the activity of the tumor suppressor p53, with minimal impact on non-tumor cells. Join us as we visit with Dr. Iwakuma about this promising research.

Identifying Novel Drug Treatment Options for Pediatric Osteosarcoma

When a child is sent home from the hospital after a serious injury or illness, the ongoing medical care for that child can be overwhelming for parents. Home Care services provide a smooth transition to home and assists parents in accessing the required ongoing care ordered by a physician. Andrea Toomay, Children’s Mercy Home Care, joins us to discuss the pediatric home care services and the value they provide to families.

When a child is sent home from the hospital after a serious injury or illness, the ongoing medical care for that child can be overwhelming for parents. Home Care services provide a smooth transition to home and assists parents in accessing the required ongoing care ordered by a physician. Andrea Toomay, Children’s Mercy Home Care, joins us to discuss the pediatric home care services and the value they provide to families.

Pediatric Home Care: Sending Kids Home Safely and Reducing Readmissions

Childhood Obesity continues to be on the rise and causes serious health consequences. In this podcast, Dr. Jason Fraser discusses the Bariatric Surgery program at Children's Mercy. We learn who is a candidate for bariatric surgery, the requirements for surgery, why Children's Mercy decided to offer bariatric surgery, the type of bariatric surgery offered at Children's Mercy and results.

Bariatric Surgery

In addition to the expert clinical care provided by our Heart Center team, Children’s Mercy also works to provide additional support to our patient and families through our THRIVE program. The THRIVE program focuses on the psycho-social needs of patients, their family members and even the staff members that treat these young patients. The THRIVE team is made up of social workers, psychologists, child life specialists, chaplains, music therapists, financial counselors, and our palliative care team who are committed to helping everyone involved with their emotional health. This can include helping to create a smooth transition back home by easing fears about returning to school after hospitalization, supporting the emotional well-being of siblings, and providing resources both inside and outside the hospital. Listen in as Jami Gross Toalson, PhD explains how THRIVE also helps patients and families look towards the future, whether that's going off to college, transitioning to adult care or finding independent living.

In addition to the expert clinical care provided by our Heart Center team, Children’s Mercy also works to provide additional support to our patient and families through our THRIVE program. The THRIVE program focuses on the psycho-social needs of patients, their family members and even the staff members that treat these young patients. The THRIVE team is made up of social workers, psychologists, child life specialists, chaplains, music therapists, financial counselors, and our palliative care team who are committed to helping everyone involved with their emotional health. This can include helping to create a smooth transition back home by easing fears about returning to school after hospitalization, supporting the emotional well-being of siblings, and providing resources both inside and outside the hospital. Listen in as Jami Gross Toalson, PhD explains how THRIVE also helps patients and families look towards the future, whether that's going off to college, transitioning to adult care or finding independent living.

Helping Heart Patients, Family, And Staff THRIVE

Peutz-jeghers syndrome (PJS) is an inherited syndrome, characterized by the development of gastrointestinal polyps and characteristic mucocutaneous freckling. Individuals that present with PJS tend to have polyps often in their small intestine as well as their stomach and large intestine. Recently the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) group published the first set of guidelines in treating PJS in pediatric patients.Hear from Thomas Attard MD, a core contributing author to the ESPGHAN guidelines and Caitlin Lawson, MS, CGC, on how Children’s Mercy manages pediatric patients in view of the new recommendations and how novel techniques available at Children’s Mercy impact patient management and outcomes.

Peutz-jeghers syndrome (PJS) is an inherited syndrome, characterized by the development of gastrointestinal polyps and characteristic mucocutaneous freckling. Individuals that present with PJS tend to have polyps often in their small intestine as well as their stomach and large intestine. Recently the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) group published the first set of guidelines in treating PJS in pediatric patients. Hear from Thomas Attard MD, a core contributing author to the ESPGHAN guidelines and Caitlin Lawson, MS, CGC, on how Children’s Mercy manages pediatric patients in view of the new recommendations and how novel techniques available at Children’s Mercy impact patient management and outcomes.

Management and Treatment for Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome

Minimally invasive interventional radiology services, including angiography, vascular malformations, and tumor ablations, boast lower costs, fewer complications and faster recovery times compared to open surgery. However, 65 percent of patients are entirely familiar with interventional radiology (IR) with 54 percent of medical students “unclear” of IR duties. Join Brenton D. Reading, MD, with the Division of Radiology at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, as he introduces us to IR, IR services and outcomes from his dedicated interventional radiologist team at one of the largest pediatric radiology divisions in the nation.

Minimally invasive interventional radiology services, including angiography, vascular malformations, and tumor ablations, boast lower costs, fewer complications and faster recovery times compared to open surgery. However, 65 percent of patients are entirely familiar with interventional radiology (IR) with 54 percent of medical students “unclear” of IR duties. Join Brenton D. Reading, MD, with the Division of Radiology at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, as he introduces us to IR, IR services and outcomes from his dedicated interventional radiologist team at one of the largest pediatric radiology divisions in the nation.

The Image of Interventional Radiology

Gerald Woods, MD, Division Director of Hematology/Oncology/BMT, has more than 30 years experience in sickle cell treatment. Dr. Woods is currently a PI for a study of GBT-440, a new drug to treat sickle cell. Children’s Mercy is one of only two U.S. hospitals initially invited to participate in this research. Dr. Woods is leading the hospital’s participation in a Health Resources and Services Administration grant for the Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program Regional Collaborative. Join us as Dr. Woods discusses the latest advancements in sickle cell disease and efforts to increase treatment options.

Gerald Woods, MD, Division Director of Hematology/Oncology/BMT, has more than 30 years experience in sickle cell treatment. Dr. Woods is currently a PI for a study of GBT-440, a new drug to treat sickle cell. Children’s Mercy is one of only two U.S. hospitals initially invited to participate in this research. Dr. Woods is leading the hospital’s participation in a Health Resources and Services Administration grant for the Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program Regional Collaborative. Join us as Dr. Woods discusses the latest advancements in sickle cell disease and efforts to increase treatment options.

Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program

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