Zora Rogers, M.D. - Faculty Profile

Medical School	University of California, San Diego (1983)
Internship	University of Southern California Med. Center-LAC (1984)
Residency	University of Southern California Med. Center-LAC (1986)
Fellowship	University of Southern California Med. Center-LAC (1987)
Fellowship	UT Southwestern / Children's Medical Center (1990)

Characterization of the natural history and improvement of the treatment of children and adolescents with non-malignant hematologic diseases such as aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, and histiocytosis
Development of optimum management approaches to major clinical events in children with sickle cell disease (febrile illness, chest syndrome, painful crisis, avascular necrosis, stroke)
Use of hydroxyurea, stem cell transplantation and other therapies, particularly in young children, to prevent the morbidity of sickle cell anemia

Featured Publications

A two year pilot trial of hydroxyurea in very young children with sickle cell anemia

Wang WC, Wynn LW, Rogers ZR, Scott JP, Lane PA and Ware RE J Pediatr 2001 139 790-796

Outpatient penile aspiration and epinephrine irrigation for young patients with sickle cell anemia and prolonged priapism

Mantadakis E, Cavender JD, Rogers ZR, Ewalt DH and Buchanan GR Blood 2000 95 78-82

Functional asplenia in hemoglobin SC disease

Lane PA, O'Connell JL, Lear JM, Rogers ZR, Woods GM, Hassell KL, Wethers DL, Luckey DW and Buchanan GR Blood 1995 85 2238-2244

Outpatient management of febrile illness in infants and young children with sickle cell anemia

Rogers ZR, Morrison RA, Vedro DA, and Buchanan GR J Pediatr 1990 117 736-739

Priapism in sickle cell disease

Rogers ZR Hematol Oncol Clin N Am 2005 19 917-928

Longterm hydroxyurea therapy for infants with sickle cell anemia - the HUSOFT extension study

Hankins JS, Ware RE, Rogers ZR, Wynn LW, Lane PA, Scott JP, Wanc WC Blood 2005 106 2269-2275

Minor elective surgical procedures using general anesthesia in children with sickle cell anemia without pre-operative blood transfusion

Fu T, Corrigan NJ, Quinn CT, Rogers ZR, and Buchanan GR Pediatr Blood Cancer 2005 45 43-47

Survival of children with sickle cell disease.

Quinn CT, Rogers ZR, Buchanan GR Blood 2004 103(11) 4023-4027

Acquired Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia as part of multiple-autoantibody syndrome in a pediatric heart transplant patient.

Rawal A, Sarode R, Curtis BR, Karandikar NJ, Friedman K, Rogers ZR J Pediatr 2004 144 (5) 672-674

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