Professor Uma Athale
Uma is a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist and Professor at McMaster University and McMaster Children’s Hospital. Her clinical interests are pediatric leukemias and hemoglobinopathy. She was a co-founder of pediatric and adult joint lifespan hemoglobinopathy clinic at McMaster University and Hamilton health Sciences (HHS). She is a Chair of Disease-specific Working Group for Hemoglobinopathy for Ontario Newborn Screening Program and on the advisory committee for the same. Uma is actively involved in global health especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). She is consultant to various projects in SSA including Sickle hemoglobinopathy research in Zimbabwe and Zambia. She has received funding support from CIHR, Heart & Stroke Foundation as well as C17 Research Network. She is currently developing tiered curriculum for health care providers at different levels in the care of sickle cell disease.