Omar Niss, MD^1,2, Cara Morin, MD, PhD^3*, Sean M Lang, MD^4*, Tarek Alsaied, MD, MSc^5,6*, MacKenzie Tasset^7*, Punam Malik, MD⁸ and Charles T. Quinn, MD, MS^9,10

¹University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
²Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
³Department of Pediatric Radiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
⁴Cardiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
⁵UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
⁶University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
⁷Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
⁸Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
⁹College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
¹⁰Division of Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Med. Ctr., Cincinnati, OH

Haiou Li^1*, Xunde Wang, PhD^2*, Nancy Asomaning, MS^2*, Anna Conrey, NP^2*, Britney Kruah, MS^2*, Kylie Haymaker^2*, Colin O. Wu, PhD^3*, Vandana Sachdev, MD^4* and Swee Lay Thein, MBBS, DSc, FRCP, FRCPath, MRCP, MRCPath²

¹Sickle Cell Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Arlington, VA
²Sickle Cell Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
³Office of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
⁴Echocardiography laboratory, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes, NIH, Bethesda, MD

Abdelrhman Mohammed, MD^1*, Najibah Galadanci, MBBS, PhD, MPH¹, Gerhard S Hellemann, PhD^2* and Julie Kanter, MD³

¹Lifespan Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
²Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Marti Goldenberg, DO¹, Sarah C. Cromack, MD^2*, Jessica Walter, MD, MSCE^2*, Jayla Lynn Scott^3*, Howard J. Li, MD^4*, Julia Varga, RN^5*, Alan Decherney, MD^4*, Courtney D. Fitzhugh, MD⁶, Emily Limerick, MD⁶, Matthew Hsieh, MD⁷, Margaret Rush, MD^8*, Clarisa Gracia, MD, MSCE^8*, Lisa Shandley, MD, MSc^9*, Kerri Andre, MD^9*, Jennifer Fay Kawwass, MD^9*, Kamaria C. Cayton Vaught, MD^10*, Katherine Cameron, MD, MS^10* and Lydia H. Pecker, MD, MS¹¹

¹Department of Pediatric Hematology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
²Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
³Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
⁴National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD
⁵National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
⁶Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
⁷NHLBI, NIH-NHLBI-MCHB, Bethesda, MD
⁸Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
⁹Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
¹⁰Department of Reproductive Endocrinology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
¹¹Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Jeffrey D Lebensburger, DO¹, Guolian Kang, PhD², Sara Rashkin, PhD^3*, Rima Zahr, DO^4* and Malgorzata Kasztan, PhD⁵

¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
²Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
³St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, MEMPHIS, TN
⁴University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
⁵Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology-Oncology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Jonathan St-Onge, MD^1*, Tzvetena Hristova, MD, MSc^1*, Janick Caron-L'Ecuyer¹, Chrystelle Charles, MD^1*, Mia Stevanovik^1*, Sara-Maude Desforges, MD¹, Costa Kazadi, MD, MSc^2*, Céline Nkoue, MD^3*, George Nilton Nunes Mendes, MD^4*, Olivier Pouliot, MD^1*, Gregory Jacquin, MD^2,4,5*, Olena Bereznyakova, MD^2,4,5*, Christian Stapf, MD^2,4,5* and Stephanie Forte, MD, MSc^1,2,6

¹Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
²CRCHUM, Montreal, QC, Canada
³Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
⁴Division of Neurology, CHUM, Montreal, QC, Canada
⁵Department of Neurosciences, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
⁶Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, CHUM, Montreal, QC, Canada