Centers of Excellence
Diggs-Kraus Sickle Cell Center

Dr. Patricia Adams-Graves, Medical Director

In 1989, Dr. Adams-Graves joined the UT faculty as an instructor of medicine for one year while securing a three-year fellowship in Hematology/Oncology. She aspired to be an oncologist specializing in breast cancer, but after working in the Diggs-Kraus Sickle Cell Center, she saw a need for improvement in patient care that impacted all aspects of a patient’s life. “I realized that we needed to educate the patient’s school administrators and teachers, employers, family members, caregivers, and the community. I recognized that each individual patient needed holistic care. People living with sickle cell have unpredictable interruptions, not knowing when the next painful episode will occur.”

 

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