Education Committee

STAR Education, Advocacy & Support Committee

The STAR Advocacy, Education, & Outreach Committee is comprised of 13 members, both medical and non-medical. It is chaired by Dorothea N. Douglas-Lindsay, MD, FAAP (Nemours Children’s Hospital) and Seethal A. Jacob, MD, MS, FAAP (Riley Hospital for Children).

Seethal_Jacob_MD
Seethal A. Jacob, MC, MS, FAAP, Co-chair
Dorothea Douglas-Lindsay, MD
Dorothea N. Douglas-Linday, MD, FAAP, Co-chair

We aim to connect with every SCD patient and provider across North America so they are all aware that BMT is a cure for SCD.

STAR is collaborating with the National Marrow Donor Program and Sickle Cell Community Consortium on a variety of projects.

We are represented in many major national medical organizations in hematology, including: