WGBD Workshop

Photos courtesy of the Department of Pediatrics

Faculty and fellows from the Department of Pediatrics attend the Women and Girls with Blood Disorders LAN Workshop, and the Foundation for Women and Girls with Blood Disorders Conference in September in Long Beach, Calif. Lakshmi Srivaths, MD, professor, of hematology and director of the Pediatric Thrombosis Clinic, served as chair of the WGBD Learning Access Network Workshop and led a round-table discussion on “Research in Women and Girls with Bleeding and Clotting Disorders.”

Additionally, Srivaths, along with Neethu Menon, MD, assistant professor of hematology, and social worker Sabrina Farina presented on an art-therapy program for young women with bleeding disorders they led in 2023, and Asha Davidson, MD, MPH, assistant professor, gave a keynote address titled “The Impact of Eating Disorders and Body Image Disturbance on Females with Blood Disorders.”

A pair of pediatric hematology/oncology fellows, Ramya Ramakrishnan, MD, and Olayinka Okeleji, MD, were able to attend the conference after winning the FWGBD Travel Awards.

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