Roland Scott, American Medical is a photograph by Science Source which was uploaded on January 13th, 2021.
Roland Scott, American Medical
Roland Boyd Scott (April 18, 1909 - December 10, 2002) African-American pediatrician. He was trained as an allergist but turned his attention to... more
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Roland Scott, American Medical
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Roland Boyd Scott (April 18, 1909 - December 10, 2002) African-American pediatrician. He was trained as an allergist but turned his attention to sickle cell anemia in the 1950's after he noticed a high number of African-American children appearing in the Howard Hospital emergency room with complications of the disease. He became an authority on sickle cell, a hereditary blood disorder, and lobbied for a national research and treatment effort. In 1971, Congress passed the Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act. In 1972, with a grant from the NIH, he founded the Howard University Center for Sickle Cell Disease and was its director until 1990, when he retired.
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