Dr. Carla W Roberts MD
Hematologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
7 Medical Park Rd Suite 203 Columbia SC, 29203About
Dr. Carla Roberts is a pediatric hematologist practicing in Columbia, SC. Dr. Roberts 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. Roberts treats include leukemias, lymphomas and certain tumors. Dr. Roberts can also treat bleeding disorders in children. Pediatric hematologists can be found in childrens hospitals, community hospitals, university medical centers and more.
Education and Training
Med Univ of Sc Coll of Med, Charleston Sc 1995
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Interactions of biomedical and environmental risk factors for cognitive development: a preliminary study of sickle cell disease.
- Short-term memory in children with sickle cell disease: executive versus modality-specific processing deficits.
- The association of oral hydroxyurea therapy with improved cognitive functioning in sickle cell disease.
- Neurobehavioral impact of sickle cell disease in early childhood.
- Neurodevelopmental screening in toddlers and early preschoolers with sickle cell disease.
- Validity of the Pediatric Quality Of Life Inventory for youth with sickle cell disease.
- Use of handheld wireless technology for a home-based sickle cell pain management protocol.
- Language processing deficits in sickle cell disease in young school-age children.
- Criterion and convergent validity for 4 measures of pain in a pediatric sickle cell disease population.
- Relationships between somatic growth and cognitive functioning in young children with sickle cell disease.
- Cerebral blood flow velocity and language functioning in pediatric sickle cell disease.
- Responsiveness of the PedsQL to pain-related changes in health-related quality of life in pediatric sickle cell disease.
- Sensitization to acute procedural pain in pediatric sickle cell disease: modulation by painful vaso-occlusive episodes, age, and endothelin-1.
- Information-seeking coping behaviors during painful procedures in African-American children with sickle cell disease.
- Association between somatic growth trajectory and cognitive functioning in young children with sickle cell disease.
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