How to Manage: Paediatric Sickle Cell Disease
This online course will help you to develop an approach for the effective management of paediatric sickle cell disease.
What is the course about?
This online course will help you to develop an approach for the effective management of paediatric sickle cell disease.
Target Audience
- Paediatric Trainees
- SAS doctors and consultants
- Allied Health Professionals
- Nurses
Learning Aims, Objectives and Outcomes:
Aim:
This online course will help you to develop an approach for the effective management of paediatric sickle cell disease.
Outcome:
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Manage the initial presentation of child or young person presenting with sickle cell disease.
- Refer a patient appropriately to the correct service within in a variety of settings.
- Explain the various systemic manifestations of sickle cell disease.
- Discuss the role of bone marrow transplantation in the management of sickle cell disease.
- Understand mechanisms for preventing and screening for paediatric strokes in sickle cell disease.
Faculty Lead
Dr Subarna Chakravorty
Dr Subarna Chakravorty is a Paediatric Haematologist with a special interest in non-malignant haematology and stem cell transplant for haemoglobinopathy and non-malignant diseases.
She joined King’s College Hospital as consultant in July 2015. Prior to that, Subarna led the Paediatric Haemoglobinopathy service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Imperial Paediatric Red Cell Disorders Network for 5 years, where she was also involved in the bone marrow transplant programme for paediatric haemoglobinopathy.
Since 2021, Subarna has been involved in the adult sickle cell bone marrow transplant service at King’s College Hospital. Subarna was the national lead for the UK Haemoglobinopathy Peer Reviews, 2018-2020. She is one of the clinical leads at the Southeast London and Southeast England Region Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre for Sickle Cell disease and a member of the Clinical Reference Group for haemoglobinopathy, NHS England.
She is a trustee of the British Society for Haematology and the UK Forum on Haemoglobin Disorders. Subarna is interested in clinical and molecular research in sickle cell disease and is involved in several projects at King’s College London.