Dr. Cheryl A Hillery MD
Hematologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
1 CHILDRENS HOSPITAL DR PITTSBURGH PA, 15224About
Dr. Cheryl Hillery is a pediatric hematologist practicing in Milwaukee, WI. Dr. Hillery specializes in treating children that have a blood disease or cancer. Such blood diseases include disorders of red blood cells, white blood cells and/or platelets. The types of cancers that Dr. Hillery treats include leukemias, lymphomas and certain tumors. Dr. Hillery can also treat bleeding disorders in children. Pediatric hematologists can be found in childrens hospitals, community hospitals, university medical centers and more.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hematology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The carboxy-terminal cell-binding domain of thrombospondin is essential for sickle red blood cell adhesion.
- Low-molecular-weight heparin in thrombotic disease in children and adolescents.
- Hydroxyurea therapy decreases the in vitro adhesion of sickle erythrocytes to thrombospondin and laminin.
- Bleeding disorders: A common cause of menorrhagia in adolescents.
- Altered erythrocyte endothelial adherence and membrane phospholipid asymmetry in hereditary hydrocytosis.
- Single-chain antibody fragments derived from a human synthetic phage-display library bind thrombospondin and inhibit sickle cell adhesion.
- L-4F, an apolipoprotein A-1 mimetic, dramatically improves vasodilation in hypercholesterolemia and sickle cell disease.
- Effects of 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine on fetal hemoglobin levels, red cell adhesion, and hematopoietic differentiation in patients with sickle cell disease.
- Increased erythrocyte adhesion in mice and humans with hereditary spherocytosis and hereditary elliptocytosis.
- Hypoxia-induced acute lung injury in murine models of sickle cell disease.
- Erythrocyte adhesion is modified by alterations in cellular tonicity and volume.
- Fibrinogen binding to purified platelet glycoprotein IIb-IIIa (integrin alpha IIb beta 3) is modulated by lipids.
- Histopathology of experimentally induced asthma in a murine model of sickle cell disease.
- Ca2+-CaM activation of AMP deaminase contributes to adenine nucleotide dysregulation and phosphatidylserine externalization in human sickle erythrocytes.
- Methaemalbumin formation in sickle cell disease: effect on oxidative protein modification and HO-1 induction.
Awards
- 2011 Milwaukee Super Doctors
Treatments
- Sickle Cell Disease, Blood Clots (thrombosis), Von Willebrand Disease And More
Fellowships
- University of North Carolina Hospitals - Hematology 1991
- Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 1988
- Medicine and Pediatric Hematology & Oncology - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 1989
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