Ward Hagar, MD
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Dr. Hagar directs the Adult Sickle Cell Center at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. He helps create, design, and implement clinical studies and transitional research to improve quality of life and care of persons with Sickle Cell Disease. The Adult Sickle Cell Center uses a comprehensive, lifelong care approach.

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The Center has had over 500 patients and provide liaison services for Northern California, as well as nationally and internationally for many patients and providers. An important mission for the Center is their HELP-SC boot camps for education physicians, nurses, fellows, and social workers in the nuts-and-bolts care for persons with Sickle Cell Disease.

Education & Training

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• Residency University of California Davis 1983
• Medicine University of Virginia School of Medicine 1983

Publications (3)

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Iron OverloadAntimicrobial Cationic Peptidesbeta-ThalassemiaAdministration, InhalationCross-Over StudiesIron-Regulatory ProteinsPain ManagementAnemia, Sickle CellAnalgesicsIronHomeostasisMedical MarijuanaFerritinsKetamineErythrocytes, Abnormal

• Adjuvant low-dose ketamine for paediatric and young adult sickle cell vaso-occlusive episodes in the emergency department.
  British journal of haematology 2022 Cooper-Sood JB, Hagar W, Marsh A, Hoppe C, Agrawal AK
• Effect of Inhaled Cannabis for Pain in Adults With Sickle Cell Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA network open 2020 Abrams DI, Couey P, Dixit N, Sagi V, Hagar W, Vichinsky E, Kelly ME, Connett JE, Gupta K
• Iron homeostasis during transfusional iron overload in beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease: changes in iron regulatory protein, hepcidin, and ferritin expression.
  Pediatric hematology and oncology 2007 Jenkins ZA, Hagar W, Bowlus CL, Johansson HE, Harmatz P, Vichinsky EP, Theil EC