Does Attendance at a Sickle Cell Educational Conference Improve Clinician Knowledge and Attitude Toward Patients with Sickle Cell Disease?

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic disease associated with both chronic pain and acute painful events referred to as vaso-occlusive crisis. Individuals suffer from a multitude of medical complications in addition to pain. Patients are often stigmatized as “drug-seeking” and receive inadequate pain management