Dr. Issac Odame is the Hematology Section Head, Division of Hematology/Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto. He is Professor and Director of the Division of Adult and Pediatric Hematology in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Toronto. He holds the Alexandra Yeo Endowed Chair in Hematology at the University of Toronto.
Currently, Odame is the Medical Director of the Global Sickle Cell Disease Network based at the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health that is building enduring collaborations between clinicians/scientists worldwide to further research and advance care of patients with sickle cell disease, particularly in LMICs that shoulder the heaviest disease burden. As a member of Steering Committees, Data Safety Monitoring Boards, and site Principal Investigator, he is actively involved in several clinical studies aimed at developing novel disease-modifying and curative therapies for SCD. Odame is currently Associate Editor of Pediatric Blood & Cancer journal and serves on the Editorial Board of the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.
From 2000 - 2006, Odame was Associate Professor of Pediatrics at McMaster University, where he was the Director of the Residency Programme in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
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