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Monika R. Asnani, DM, PhD

Professor
Caribbean Institute for Health Research, University of the West Indies
The University of the West Indies
Kingston 7, Kingston, Jamaica

Monika Asnani is a Professor of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and the Director of the Sickle Cell Unit at the Caribbean Institute for Health Research, The University of the West Indies (The UWI) in Jamaica. She joined CAIHR in 2003 and has over 22 years’ experience of providing clinical care for persons with sickle cell disease (SCD). Her focus of research is psychosocial outcomes in SCD and sickle nephropathy and she has validated/tested various tools to examine quality of life in children, adolescents, and adults with SCD in Jamaica. She was the local PI for the Phase 1/2 MOMENTUM study of ARU-1801 gene therapy. She is a graduate of the UWI and was awarded the M.B.B.S. degree in 1992. Her thesis work leading up to the award of D.M. Family Medicine in 2006 examined the Quality of Life of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). She completed her PhD in Epidemiology in 2014 with a focus on the Epidemiology of Sickle Nephropathy. Her current projects examine barriers to use of Hydroxyurea in SCD in Jamaica; and Ageing and health status in Jamaicans with SCD

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