Wally R. Smith, MD, Florence Neal Cooper Smith Professor Sickle Cell Disease at Virginia Commonwealth University Health, and Medical Director of the VCU Adult Sickle Cell Medical Home, is a world authority on pain in sickle cell disease, and Executive Editor of the Journal of Sickle Cell Disease, published by Oxford University Press. He attended medical school at University of Alabama Heersink School of Medicine, and finished residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Tennessee.
Thokozeni Lipato, MD, is a general internist specializing in Sickle Cell Disease at Virginia Commonwealth University Health. He is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. He attended medical school at University of Alabama Heersink School of Medicine, and Internal Medicine resident at the University of Minnesota.