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Article: Doctor works to improve lives of children with sickle cell disease.
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- March 17, 2003
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Byline: Deborah L. Shelton
ST. LOUIS _ Dr. Michael R. DeBaun sat tapping on his computer keyboard. Voices rang out from a speakerphone as he simultaneously typed and carried on a phone conference about a college scholarship for high school students with sickle cell disease.
DeBaun, 42, is director of the Sickle Cell Treatment and Education Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.
He has a long list of academic titles, which include assistant professor of pediatrics and biostatistics at Washington University School of Medicine and associate director of the medical school's Doris Duke Medical Student ...