Roland Scott, Medical Researcher

Roland Boyd Scott (April 18, 1909 - December 10, 2002) African-American pediatrician and sickle cell researcher. He received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Howard University. In 1939, he was appointed an assistant professor of pediatrics at Howard, and in 1945 he became chief of the department. He was trained as an allergist but turned his attention to sickle cell anemia in the 1950's after he noticed a high number of African-American children appearing in the Howard Hospital emergency room with complications of the disease. He became an authority on sickle cell, a hereditary blood disorder, and lobbied for a national research and treatment effort. In 1971 he successfully lobbied Congress and gained passage of the Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act. In 1972, with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, He founded the Howard University Center for Sickle Cell Disease and was the director of the center until 1990, when he retired. He died in 2002 at the age of 93

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