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Executive Committee > Associate Director for Health Disparities and Special Population Initiatives: Alexis Thompson, MD, MPH
In this new senior leadership position, Alexis Thompson, MD, MPH, will strengthen the community outreach and service programs of the Office of Health Disparities and Special Population initiatives. Dr. Thompson is currently the Medical and Scientific Director of Hematology at Children's Memorial Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Her clinical interests include hemoglobinopathies, bone marrow failure syndromes and stem cell transplantation in pediatric patients. Her laboratory research is focused on developmentally regulated genes in early hematopoieses. In 2001, Dr. Thompson was named the A. Watson and Sarah Armour Endowed Chair for Blood Diseases and Cancer at Children's Memorial Hospital. She has served on the Board of Directors for the National Marrow Donor Program and is on the Medical Advisory Board for the Cooley's Anemia Foundation and the Sickle Cell Disease Association of Illinois. In her current position, Dr. Thompson is an investigator on NIH-funded multi-center clinical trials as well as her own institutional clinical studies in thalassemia, sickle cell disease and hemophlia. |
