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The Sickle Cell Program at Riley Children’s Health provides comprehensive, lifelong sickle cell care so patients can live healthy and active lives.

Riley Children’s Health is home to an all-inclusive treatment program for sickle cell disease. With a strong focus on leading-edge research, Riley Children’s offers access to the latest therapies, exclusive clinical trials and patient- and family-centered care.

Why Choose Riley Children's

Why Choose Riley Children's

Our program provides comprehensive sickle cell care to patients with sickle cell disease as early as possible and effectively manages their condition to adulthood. The team works with children with sickle cell disease to help them live healthy and active lives while helping families deal with challenges when their child has sickle cell disease.

Since sickle cell is a chronic disease that lasts a lifetime, our experts also specialize in transitioning pediatric patients to adult care. Children with sickle cell can still live healthy and active lives.

Our unique program offerings include:

  • Indiana’s only stem cell transplant center for non-malignant transplants.
  • The team includes Riley pediatric specialists in
    • Pulmonology
    • Neurology
    • Nephrology

This collaboration with multiple doctors and healthcare providers allows us to coordinate care for medical complications that coincide with sickle cell disease. Social workers, educational liaisons, psychologists, and other professionals with expertise in sickle cell contribute to complete patient care.

  • Lifespan Sickle Cell Disease Center of Excellence, a partnership between Riley and Indiana University Health, provides lifelong sickle cell care, reducing disruptions and barriers to care in high-risk periods.
  • With a designated nurse coordinator, our state-funded Transition Program supports adolescent patients to prepare for a smooth adult-care transition.
  • Sickle Cell Story Club is offered to provide developmentally appropriate books with positive messages and diverse characters to our patients at every clinic visit.

Conditions & Services

Conditions Treated

Our pediatric specialists provide patient- and family-centered care for most related conditions. The links below provide more specific information about some, but not all, of the conditions that we treat.

  • Sickle Cell Disease

Services Offered

We offer a number of different Sickle Cell Program services. Below are some, but not all, of the services that we provide. If you have a question about a specific service that is not listed here, please contact our program.

  • Blood Tests
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • Pain & Symptom Management
  • Spiritual & Psychosocial Support

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Meghan D. Drayton Jackson, DO, FAAP, MBOE, CPPS

Pediatric Hematology - Oncology

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Derrick L. Goubeaux, DO

Pediatric Hematology - Oncology

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Christopher T. Jackman, MD

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Pediatric Neurology

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Pediatric Hematology - Oncology

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Jennifer M. Kaericher, NP

Pediatric Hematology - Oncology

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Julia E. LaMotte, PhD

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

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Evans M. Machogu, MD, MS

4.7 out of 5 stars

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Pediatric Pulmonary

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Megan C. Matthes, PA-C

Pediatric Hematology - Oncology

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Debra L. Wagner, NP, RN, MSN, CPNP

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Pediatric Hematology - Oncology

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Patient & Family Resources

Patient & Family Resources

Below is a list of services provided by Riley Children's to help support your child and family through their cancer care with us. These are just a few of the support services provided.

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Resources

  • School Program

    With our school program, your child does not have to miss out on important education while receiving treatment.

Related Programs & Departments

Related Programs & Departments

We provide multispecialty care for a number of conditions. Below are links to our related programs & departments.

  • Adolescent Medicine
  • Pediatric Cancer & Blood Disorders
  • Children's Clinical Research Center
  • Children's Health Services Research
  • Comprehensive Hematology Program
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research
  • Pediatric Neurology
  • Pathology & Lab Services
  • Pediatric Pulmonology & Respiratory Care
  • Stem Cell Transplant Program

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Research

Our hematologists actively participate in groundbreaking clinical trials, and we are currently offering more clinical trials for sickle cell disease than ever before. Some are exclusive to Riley, the Midwest or not widely available, including an NIH-funded acupuncture study specific to sickle cell disease and therapeutic trials for Oxbrita and Gleevac.

View open clinical trials for sickle cell disease.

Education

The Sickle Cell Program team at Riley Children’s Health helps train the next generation of pediatric hematologists and oncologists. Pediatric oncology/hematology fellows at the Indiana University School of Medicine learn about the latest advancements in personalized cancer treatment by spending part of their training with our team.

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