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Ward Hagar, MD
Healthcare Provider Adult Program Director, Comprehensive Center for Sickle Cell Disease
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Main Hospital
747 52nd Street
Oakland, California, United States
Dr. Hagar is the Director of Adult Sickle Cell Program at the Comprehensive Center for Sickle Cell Disease. He provides adult hematology services for thalassemia center. His clinical specialties include sickle cell disease, thalassemia, apheresis, gene therapy, hemoglobinopathies, iron metabolism, statistics and pain management.
Dr. Ward manages hundreds of sickle cell patients both in the clinic, hospital transfusion unit, and in local hospitals, serving as the sickle cell consultant and resource for emergency departments and hospitalist groups at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland.
After completing both his Advanced Training in Clinic Research at UCSF and an NIH T32 clinical training program focusing on transfusional iron, he has been an investigator on numerous clinical trials involving sickle cell and thalassemia and their complications. He is actively involved in National Sickle Cell Policy.
Dr. Ward Hagar is a co-author of the Social Security Administration’s revision of disability criteria for sickle cell and other anemias and serves on protocol design committees for multicenter studies. He continues to work on aspects of adults with sickle cell disease, serving on the protocol design committee for multicenter studies for both pharmaceutical studies and NIH- funded trials.
Representative Publications:
Teasing Apart Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
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