Yanis Pelinski^1*, Gonzalo De Luna, MD^2*, Christian Kassasseya, MD^3*, Antonio Morabito, MD^4*, Elsa Ngwem, MD^5*, Jean-Benoit Arlet, MD, PhD^6*, Isabelle Genty, MD^7*, Vasco Honsel, MD^8*, Anoosha Habibi, MD², Sylvain Le Jeune, MD^9* and Pablo Bartolucci, MD, PhD^2*

¹Sickle Cell Referral Unit, HôPital Henri Mondor AP-HP. UPEC, CréTeil, France
²Sickle Cell Referral Center, Henri-Mondor University Hospital- UPEC, AP-HP, Creteil, France
³Henri Mondor Hospital - Emergency Department, Creteil, FRA
⁴Internal Medicine Department, Avicenne Hospital - APHP, Bobigny, France
⁵Centre Hospitalier du Sud Francilien, Corbeille-Essonne, France
⁶Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
⁷Medecine Interne, Centre Hospistalier Intercommunal de Créteil, Creteil, France
⁸Centre Hospitalier St Denis, St Denis, France
⁹Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny, France

Robyn T. Cohen, MD, MPH^1*, Jane S Hankins, MD, MS², Kirsten K Ness, PhD^3*, Lewis L Hsu, MD, PhD⁴, Tracy Baynard, PhD^5*, Amy Tang, MD⁶, Shlomit Radom-Aizik, PhD^7*, Kevin Guerrero^8*, Mark Rodeghier, PhD^9* and Robert I. Liem, MD¹⁰

¹Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
²Departments of Hematology and Global Pediatric Medicine, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
³St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
⁴Sickle Cell Center / Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
⁵University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
⁶Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
⁷University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
⁸Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL
⁹Rodeghier Consultants, Chicago, IL
¹⁰Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Zachary Abramson, MD, DMD^1*, La'Ron Browne, MBBS, MSc^2*, Ayobami Olanrewaju, MBBS, MPH, MTropPaed³, Guolian Kang, PhD, MS⁴, Yunus Olufadi, PHD^5*, Andrew M Heitzer, PhD^6*, Ahsan Bashir, MD^7*, Kevin R. Krull, PhD^6* and Jane S Hankins, MD, MS^2,8

¹Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
²St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
³Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Shreveport Affiliate Hospital), Memphis, TN
⁴Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
⁵Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
⁶Department of Psychology and Biobehavioral Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
⁷Department of Pulmonology, LeBonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN
⁸Departments of Hematology and Global Pediatric Medicine, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Alan Randall Anderson, MD^1,2, Aldiouma Guindo, PharmD, PhD^3*, Kory Cablay, MD^4*, Brett MacLean, MD^5* and Joseph Kamate, BSN^6*

¹PRISMA Health Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease Program, Greenville, SC
²University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, SC
³Sickle Cell Research and Control Centre (CRLD), University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali
⁴Prisma Health Department of Pediatrics, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, SC
⁵Global Partners in Hope (GPiH), Omaha, NE
⁶Hospital for Women and Children, Koutiala, Mali

Angela E Rankine-Mullings¹, Deanne Soares^2*, Karen Aldred^1*, Susan Chang-Lopez^3*, Margaret Elizabeth Wisdom-Phipps^1*, William Schultz^4*, Teresa S. Latham, MA^4*, Susan E. Stuber, MA^4*, Patrice Jackson^1*, Russell E. Ware, MD, PhD⁴ and Marvin Ellsworth Reid^5*

¹Sickle Cell Unit, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
²Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine, The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
³Epidemiology Research Unit, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
⁴Division of Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
⁵Office of the Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica

Sophie Lanzkron¹, Deepa Manwani, MD², Julie Kanter, MD³, Arpan A Sinha, MD, MBBS⁴, Robin E. Miller, MD⁵, Robert Cronin, MD, MS⁶, Seethal A Jacob, MD, MS⁷, James Harper, MD^8*, Alan Randall Anderson, MD⁹, Marsha Treadwell, PhD¹⁰, Amma T. Owusu-Ansah, MD¹¹, Beng R. Fuh, MD¹², Molly Mandernach¹³, Jahnavi Gollamudi, MD¹⁴, Suzanne L Saccente, MD^15*, Stephanie A. Fritch Lilla, MD¹⁶, Melissa McNaull, MD¹⁷, Dana Marie LeBlanc, MD, MS¹⁸, Kay Linn Saving, MD¹⁹, Stephanie H. Guarino, MD^20*, Marisol Betensky, MD²¹, Alice J. Cohen, MD²², Ashok B. Raj, MD²³, Farzana A Sayani, MD²⁴, Sanjay J. Shah, MBBS²⁵, Shalu Narang, MD²⁶, Bindu Kanathezhath Sathi, MD^27*, John J Strouse, MD, PhD²⁸, Trisha E. Wong, MD, MS²⁹, Ofelia A. Alvarez, MD³⁰, Srila Gopal, MD³¹, Jessica Liang^32*, Daniel Semakula, PhD, MPH^33*, Matthew Chang^32*, Kenneth Rivlin, MD, PhD^34*, Sana Saif Ur Rehman, MD³⁵, Lisa M Shook, MA³⁶, Melissa Frei-Jones, MD, MS³⁷ and Jane A. Little, MD³⁸

¹Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD
²Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
³Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
⁴University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
⁵Nemours Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, DE
⁶Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
⁷Riley Hospital For Children, Indianapolis, IN
⁸University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
⁹PRISMA Health Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease Program, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, SC
¹⁰Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology, University of California San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland, CA
¹¹University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH
¹²East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
¹³University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
¹⁴University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
¹⁵Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR
¹⁶Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
¹⁷Nationwide Children's Hospital, Jackson, MS
¹⁸Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA
¹⁹University of Illinois College of Medicine - Peoria, Peoria, IL
²⁰ChristianaCare, Wilmington, DE
²¹Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, Saint Petersburg, FL
²²Newark Beth Israel Med. Ctr., Newark, NJ
²³Norton Children's Hospital, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
²⁴The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
²⁵Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
²⁶Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ
²⁷Valley Children's Hospital, Madera, CA
²⁸Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
²⁹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OH
³⁰Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Univ. of Miami School of Med., Miami, FL
³¹University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, CA
³²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
³³Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
³⁴NYC Health + Hospitals, Bronx, NY
³⁵Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
³⁶Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
³⁷University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
³⁸Division of Hematology and UNC Blood Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC