Vivien Sheehan, MD, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and serves as director of Translational Sickle Cell Disease Research at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Sheehan is an attending physician at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. She is a member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
Education
Dr. Sheehan earned her PhD in biochemistry from Texas A&M University and her MD from Emory University School of Medicine. She completed her medical residency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She also completed a fellowship in pediatric hematology and oncology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and a fellowship in internal medicine hematology at University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. She conducted postdoctoral research at Baylor College of Medicine.
Titles & Roles
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine
Director, Translational Sickle Cell Disease Research Program
Emory University School of Medicine
Research
Dr. Sheehan’s laboratory uses genomics to unravel the mechanisms of globin switching and the transition from acute to chronic pain in sickle cell disease to develop new agents to treat people with sickle cell disease. The Sheehan lab also develops biomarkers based on red cell function, using oxygen gradient ektacytometry, adhesive microfluidics, and dense cells as biomarkers for use in clinical trials of novel pharmaceutical agents and to assess curative intent of cell-based therapies.
AA Patwardhan, AP Patel, AK Pasupuleti, S Oshabaheebwa, CA Delianides, Z Sekyonda, JJ Yoo, JW Wade, EN Evans, MA Suster, P Mohseni, UA Gurkan, VA Sheehan
