Blood Diseases
The Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute at Cincinnati Children’s provides comprehensive, specialized care for children and young adults with blood diseases. Experts from many specialties work together to care for patients with a variety of conditions, including:
Leading-Edge Research
Physicians and researchers at Cincinnati Children’s conduct extensive clinical and laboratory research in hopes of improving the lives and prognosis of patients with blood diseases. They play a leading role in many national and international clinical studies, providing patients with early access to innovative therapies and treatments that are not widely available.
The director of the Division of Hematology is Clinton Joiner, MD, PhD, who is also director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Cincinnati Children’s. He has been active in the national field of sickle cell disease as the chairman of the Steering Committee of the Clinical Trials Consortium of the National Institutes of Health Comprehensive Sickle Cell Centers and as a member of the Medical Research and Advisory Committee of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. Joiner is active in clinical and laboratory research and has more than 75 publications in the field. Current research involves the molecular mechanism of cell volume regulation in red blood cells and how they are altered by sickle cell disease.
