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The cells are stiff and sticky and can block blood flow to organs. <\/p>\n<p><TABLE border=\"0\" width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"10\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Savitt312.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture disc.\"><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:7pt; line-height:150%;\">Todd Savitt, Ph.D.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>Scientific discovery of sickle cell disease occurred more than a century ago. Its history is the focus of the fourth Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D. History of Medicine Lecture.<\/p>\n<p><B>When:<\/B> Noon, March 26. Lunch will be provided for the first 75 attendees starting at 11:30 a.m.  <\/p>\n<p><B>Where:<\/B> Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater<\/p>\n<p><B>Who:<\/B> Todd Savitt, Ph.D., professor in the department of bioethics and interdisciplinary studies at East Carolina University&#8217;s Brody School of Medicine, will discuss the history of sickle cell anemia. His lecture is titled, &#8220;Race, Medicine, Authorship and the &#8216;Discovery&#8217; of Sickle Cell Disease, 1910-11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Savitt is an historian of medicine, primarily African-American medical history and medical history of the American South and West. He has written or edited six books, most recently: &#8220;Race and Medicine in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century America.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><B>What:<\/B> The Richard B. 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