Specialty Areas

Adult Sickle Cell Disease

Education and Experience

BA: Sociology, Marshall University, 1995; MA: Mental Health Counseling, Marshall University, 1999; BSN: Marshall University, 2006; MS: University of California, San Francisco, 2010; Adult Nurse Practitioner: Adult Sickle Cell, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, 2010-2019; Adult Sickle Cell Nurse Practitioner: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019-present.

Research and Clinical Interests

Health equity, chronic pain management, effects of stigma on health outcomes.

Selected Bibliography

Ginwalla, M., Al Masoud, A., Tofovic, D., Alin, T., Al-Kindi, S., Oliveira, G., Rajagopalan, S., Schilz, R., Little, J. (2017).  Cardiovascular evaluation and management of iron overload cardiomyopathy in sickle cell disease. American Journal of Hematology Vol 93, Issue 1.