Allan Platt, PA-C, is a physician's assistant serving as program coordinator for the Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center. He also oversees the Sickle Cell Information Center an informational website built on a partnership between the Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, the Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia, Inc., the Emory School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, and the Morehouse School of Medicine. Mr. Platt also is a clinical instructor in the Physician Assistant Program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
More about the Sickle Cell Center
The Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System is the world's first 24-hour comprehensive primary-care clinic for patients with sickle cell syndromes. The center is staffed and designed to evaluate and treat sickle cell emergencies quickly and efficiently. Besides providing care for northwest Georgia's sickle cell patients, the center participates in clinical research to improve sickle cell care everywhere and expand knowledge about the disease.
Services provided include:- 24-hour Urgent Care for adults over 16
- Health-maintenance care for adults and children
- New patient evaluations
- Patient counseling and sickle cell education
- Inpatient consultations
- Newborn screening and genetic counseling
- Professional education: annual meetings and speakers
- Research center for new treatments and pain management
- Leg-ulcer and hydrea clinics
- Chronic transfusion services
- Support groups for teens, parents, and adults
- Transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound testing for stroke prevention
- Computer-based education
- STARS Clinic for transfusion therapy and stroke rehabilitation
