Friends of Patients at the NIH Annual Golf Tournament

Friends at NIH is very happy to announce that Dr. Courtney Fitzhugh has agreed to be our featured guest and speaker at our golf tournament luncheon. Dr. Fitzhugh, a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar, is part of the NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

The NHLBI is the nation’s leader in the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. Dr. Fitzhugh is exploring new avenues of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for sickle cell disease, while also studying the currently underexplored cardiovascular complications arising due to this genetic blood disorder.

Dr. Fitzhugh will be speaking to us about her work, the NHLBI-led collaborative research effort, Cure Sickle Cell Initiative, that will accelerate the development of gene therapies to cure Sickle Cell disease and how Friends at NIH is assisting in that effort.

Courtney Fitzhugh received her B.S. magna cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996, and her M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco in 2001. During medical school, Dr. Fitzhugh participated in the NIH Clinical Research Training Program, where she studied with Dr. John Tisdale at the NHLBI.

After receiving her M.D., Dr. Fitzhugh completed a joint residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center, and in 2005 she did a combined adult hematology and pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship at the NIH and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Fitzhugh returned to the NHLBI in 2007 and was appointed as Assistant Clinical Investigator in 2012 and Clinical Tenure Track Investigator in 2016. She is a member of the American Society of Hematology.