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HONOR LECTURES

2022 CHARLES F. WHITTEN, MD, MEMORIAL LECTURE

Michael R. DeBaun, MD, MPH

Moderator: Wanda Whitten-Shurney, MD

WHEN WE SPEAK, NO ONE IS LISTENING:

STRATEGIES FOR INDIVIDUAL AND

FAMILY ADVOCACY FOR BETTER

SICKLE CELL DISEASE MEDICAL AND

NURSING CARE

Michael R. DeBaun, MD, MPH, will speak of individual, family and professional
advocacy strategies to enhance the lives of children and adults with sickle cell disease.

Dr. DeBaun is a professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University School
of Medicine, JC Peterson Endowed Chair, and founder and director of the Vanderbilt-
Meharry Sickle Cell Disease Center of Excellence.

For over 25 years, his research on sickle cell disease has led to fundamental changes
in understanding the clinical epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment of strokes and
silent strokes in children and adults with sickle cell disease. He has been the principal
investigator or co-leader of eight NIH or foundation-funded controlled clinical trials
designed to prevent strokes in children or adults with sickle cell disease in North America,
Europe, and Nigeria.

Based on his significant contribution to advancing the care of children and adults with
sickle cell disease, he received the prestigious international 2014 Ernest Beutler Prize
and Lecture in Clinical Science from the American Society of Hematology. Dr. DeBaun
has received two international mentoring awards: the Maureen Andrews Award from the
Society of Pediatric Research (2017) and the American Society of Hematology Clinical
Science Research Mentor Award (2019). In 2019, he received the Stanford University
Medical School Lifetime Achievement Award.
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