Paradigm Shifts in Sickle Cell Disease with Gentry Wilkerson, MD

Dr. Wilkerson is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Originally Published in 2018.

Transcript: Paradigm Shifts in Sickle Cell Disease

In this installment, Dr. Wilkerson provides a broad overview of his research in sickle cell disease (SCD) with three paradigms shifts for emergency medicine:

1. Have a restoration of empathy for patients with Sickle Cell Disease presenting to the ED
2. Recognize the burden that the care of Sickle Cell Disease patients has on the health care system
3. Recognize that vaso-occlusive episodes associated with sickle cell disease are a diagnosis of exclusion.

 

Host: Aaron N. Leetch, MD

Guest: Gentry Wilkerson, MD