Wally Smith MD

Dr. Smith notes that SCD is a genetic hemoglobinopathy that causes severe, disabling pain throughout the body, immune deficiencies and death from infection, and chronic organ failure, as well as anemia. He reports that SCD has been historically under-researched, underfunded, and undertreated: “The problem with SCD is that it is both rare and prevalent in historically disenfranchised populations. So it is almost invisible to the American eye. For example, we do not know how many people in the United States have SCD.