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News Release

April 3, 2009

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
e-mail: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu 

Exploring Common Blood Disorders

Free Discovery Series Program at UConn Health Center April 21

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Experts from the Lea’s Foundation Center for Hematologic Disorders at the University of Connecticut Health Center will discuss new developments in the diagnosis and treatment of common blood disorders at a free Discovery Series program Tuesday, April 21.

The program starts at 7 p.m. in the UConn Health Center’s Keller Auditorium. To register, call 800-535-6232, or register online at http://health.uchc.edu/commprograms/discovery/.

Drs. Robert Bona, medical director of the Lea’s Foundation Center for Hematologic Disorders, and Biree Andemariam, a blood disorders specialist, will address the symptoms of anemia, a condition that affects about 3.5 million Americans; sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder; and bleeding and clotting disorders.

More information about the Lea’s Foundation Center for Hematologic Disorders is available at http://cancer.uchc.edu/treatment/services/hematologic.html.

To get to the UConn Health Center main entrance: Entering the campus from Route 4, at the first stop sign, continue straight. Bear left at the fork and continue up the hill. The main entrance is straight past the next stop sign. Visitor parking is available on the other side of the gate. Directions to the UConn Health Center are available at http://www.uchc.edu/directions/home.html.

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