DC Health Cafe
Date and Time
Jan 14, 2014 5:00 pm
Location
450K
Jan 14, 2014 5:00 pm
450K
Join Dr. Allistair Abraham as he discusses sickle cell disease experience performing bone marrow transplants - the only known cure for sickle cell disease - at Children?s National Medical Center. Sickle cell disease is a hereditary blood disorder that is painful and prevalent in DC. Learn what you can do to help advance care, research, and support for people living with sickle cell disease. Come mingle with medical researchers, social scientists, and community leaders who are thinking big about transforming health in DC!
Click here to register! Light refreshments will be served.
Health Cafe 360 i s a seri es is an open dialogue between community members, medical researchers, and social scientists. Clinical researchers will demystify what they do and how they do it and why they think it may help DC residents. The public - anyone from the casually interested to health activists, from citizen patients to street scholars - will probe, debate, and share ideas that come from living the experience.