Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Illinois, United States
Dr. Insia Rizvi, is an internist immersed in sickle cell disease clinical care in the UIC Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center which is one of the largest sickle cell programs in the country, in the top tier of NIH funding and publications. Since 2020, she has provided a large share of the inpatient care of approximately 700 adults with this complex multisystem condition. She also shares in their expert ambulatory care with weekly clinics. She has rapidly acquired thousands of hours of real-world experience in the multilayered interactions between biomedical and psychosocial SCD complications, healthcare teams, inequities in access to healthcare, racial/ethnic and community factors in social determinants of health. She works daily to increase communication and build trust with patients to provide excellence in care. Her immersion in research includes pharmaceutical clinical trials and the NIH-funded implementation science project RECIPE. She contributes to sickle cell research and clinical team meetings, spanning clinical care, patient health education, community engagement, professional training, clinical and translational research, and multi-level dissemination and implementation. She is fully engaged in medical education of residents and students. In her busy clinical schedule she has carved out time for a UIC Masters in Science for Clinical Research through the CCTS program.
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Post-exchange transfusion hematocrit in sickle cell disease & vaso-occlusive complications
Sunday, June 9, 2024
2:27 PM – 2:45 PM ET