Mariane De Montalembert, MD, PhD¹, Pablo Bartolucci, MD, PhD^2*, Gonzalo De Luna, MD^3*, Anoosha Habibi, MD⁴, Scylia Alexis-Fardini, MD^5*, Maryse Etienne-Julan, MD^6*, Gylna Loko, MD^7*, Giovanna Cannas, MD^8*, Jean-Benoit Arlet, MD, PhD^9*, Latifatou Boukari, MD^10*, Sylvain Le Jeune, MD^11* and Laure Joseph, MD^12*

¹Department of General Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Sickle Cell Center, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France
²Service de Médecine Interne, CHU Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
³Sickle Cell Referral Center, Henri-Mondor University Hospital- UPEC, AP-HP, Creteil, France
⁴Sick, Hopital Henri Mondor, Creteil Cedex, France
⁵Hôpital RICOU - CHU Pointe-à-Pitre Abyme, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe
⁶CHU De Pointe-à-Pitre, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
⁷CHU Martinique, Le Lamentin, Martinique
⁸Hopital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France
⁹Hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France
¹⁰Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France
¹¹Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny, France
¹²Necker Hospital (APHP), Paris, France

Modupe Idowu, MD¹, Michael R. DeBaun, MD, MPH², Arthur Burnett, MD, MBA^3*, Deepika S. Darbari, MBBS, MS⁴, Soheir Adam, MD, FRCPath⁵, Alan Randall Anderson, MD⁶, Julie Kanter, MD⁷, Henny H. Billett, MD⁸, Darla K. Liles, MD⁹, Robert S. Nickel, MD, MSc¹⁰, Laura M. Decastro, MD¹¹, Biree Andemariam, MD¹², Gershwin Theophilus Blyden, MD, PhD^13*, Matthew M. Heeney, MD¹⁴, Poornima Ramadas, MD¹⁵, Morgan L. McLemore, MD^16,17, Yogita Kolekar^18*, Dramane Laine, PhD^19*, Jincy Paulose, MD^19*, Rajendra Sarkar^18*, Mary Beth Vignogna^19* and Fuad El Rassi, MD^16,17

¹UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
²Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
³Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
⁴Division of Hematology, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC
⁵Duke Adult Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
⁶PRISMA Health Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease Program, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, SC
⁷Adult Sickle Cell Program, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
⁸Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
⁹East Carolina University Health, Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC
¹⁰Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease Program, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC
¹¹University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
¹²New England Sickle Cell Institute, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, CT
¹³Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research, Hollywood, FL
¹⁴Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston, MA
¹⁵Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA
¹⁶Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
¹⁷Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System, Atlanta, GA
¹⁸Novartis Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India
¹⁹Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ

Dunia Hatabah, MD¹, Nitya Bakhsi, MD^2*, Lou ann Brown, PhD^3*, Frank Harris^3*, Deborah Leake, NP^2*, Rawan Korman, MD^1*, Christopher Rees, MD^2*, Mark Griffiths, MD^2*, Carlton Dampier, MD² and Claudia R. Morris, MD²

¹Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
²Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
³Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Oleg Sostin, MD, MCR^1*, Rima Pai, MPH^2*, Mehndi Dandwani, MBBS³ and Christian Espana-Schmidt, MD, FACP^4*

¹Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT
²Nuvance Health, Danbury, CT
³University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa, IA
⁴CIFC, Danbury, CT

Julie Kanter, MD¹, Parth Patwari, MD, PhD^2*, Payal Desai, MD³, Kenneth I. Ataga, MD⁴, Shelley E. Crary, MD, MS⁵, Sophie Lanzkron, MD⁶, Joshua Field, MD⁷, Yu-Che Chung^2*, Linda T. Wang^2*, Björn Mellgård², Van Anh (Vika) Nguyen^2* and Victor R. Gordeuk, MD⁸

¹Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
²Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc., Cambridge, MA
³Levine Cancer Institute, Department of Hematology, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
⁴Center for Sickle Cell Disease, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN
⁵Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
⁶Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
⁷Medical College of Wisconsin, Versiti, Milwaukee, WI
⁸Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL

Anna Sowa, MD^1*, William Kudzi^2*, Vivian Paintsil^3*, Amma A. Benneh-Akwasi Kuma, MD⁴, Catherine I. Segbefia, MBChB^5*, Edeghonghon Olayemi, MBBS, MSc^6*, David Adjei^7*, Anastasia Bruce, MD^8*, Jeff Gruen, MD^9*, Ellis Owusu-Dabo^3*, Solomon Fiifi Ofori-Acquah² and The SickleGenAfrica Network^10*

¹Yale New Haven Hosptial, Middletown, CT
²University of Ghana, West African Genetic Medicine Centre, Accra, Ghana
³Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
⁴Department of Hematology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
⁵Department of Child Health, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana
⁶University of Ghana, Accra, Greater Accra, GHA
⁷University of Ghana, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, Accra, Ghana
⁸University of Ghana, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana
⁹Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT
¹⁰West African Genetic Medicine Centre, Accra, Ghana