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Sharl Azar, MD

@thesickledoc.bsky.social
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(he/him) Medical Director, MGH Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Center • Husband • Dog Dad •Tweets reflect only my opinion and are not endorsements

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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Thank you @ruthzee.bsky.social for tirelessly guarding our immigrant community. The deportation orders our patients are receiving are tantamount to death sentences. Never have I seen so many patients identify their primary medical concern as “I’m afraid I’m going to be deported.”
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The murder of George Floyd wasn’t a moment. It was a revolution. We’ve fought for five years since his murder and we are prepared to fight for fifty more if we must to assure that history finally stops repeating itself.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Join us this weekend as we work to break down barriers to access and envision a united, well community. Thank you @javawithjimmy.bsky.social for continuing to lead while honoring Dr. Betancourt’s commitment to better health for everyone.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Thank you @bostoncitycouncil.bsky.social @boston.gov @ruthzee.bsky.social for your incredible support of our bill before the state legislature! Your commitment and support to our #SickleCell warriors is critical. Thank you for making Boston a true medical home for SCD www.boston.gov/news/council...
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Council Backs Bill to Improve Sickle Cell Care
During this week’s meeting, the Council passed a resolution in support of House Bill H.1347, An Act to Improve Sickle Cell Care. This state legislation seeks to improve care for individuals living wit...
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DEEP_DAB @dirtyclinch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
YES SIR!!!
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
To our patients who are losing their Temporary Protected Status as this myopic and cruel administration continues to carry out their daily acts of racism, please reach out to us. We will fight with everything we have to assure your care is not interrupted. #SickleCell #SCDWarriors
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I’m reminded every day now that our work is protest. #SickleCell #SCD #DEI
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The challenges our #SickleCell warriors face echo the lived experience of Black and Brown people in this country. This is and always will be #BlackHistoryMonth no matter what the federal government says.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
To our #SickleCell warriors, if you are struggling to access your healthcare, SNAP, or social support benefits or if you are being threatened with deportation, please reach out to us. We want to support you in any way we can.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We can’t keep trying to play a friendly game of checkers when the other side is playing chess. There are no rules if both sides don’t acknowledge them.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
HELL YES: Michael Steele delivers a genius game-plan to absolutely DERAIL the GOP. Democrats need to STOP helping Republicans. “Let them choke on (their majority).” His words were BLUNT: “Y'all need to chill on this, all this kumbaya partisan bi-partisan crap.” He added. 🔥🔥🔥
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Our Center stands firmly committed to protecting our patients. No one can threaten their safety and wellbeing. That will never change. #SickleCell www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/i... via @statnews.com
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Allowing ICE in hospitals is a public health catastrophe in the making
Allowing ICE to conduct raids in hospitals and medical clinics is not only cruel; it is a public health catastrophe in the making, writes Eric Reinhart.
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Invisible Histories @invisiblehistories.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
My husband works for a federal department. He was just told that he is no longer able to wear his rainbow lanyard to work and that his year long project on equity must be terminated immediately. I am simultaneously horrified and driven.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
As the Robert K. Kraft chair in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion I will continue to empower the meaning behind every word in that title. We ignore history at this moment at our peril. The current administration can’t hide behind their white robes. #SickleCell www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Latest News on Executive Orders and D.E.I. Crackdown
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Senator, with all due respect, we can’t keep trying to play by the rules when the other side has set the rule book on fire.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
On this day, we attended to the arc of the moral universe. Thank you #MassSickleCell for an extraordinary event honoring the legacy of Dr. King through the stories of our #SickleCell warriors.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Join us on MLK Day (and in protest of the other event happening on that day) to educate the community while celebrating and supporting our #SickleCell warriors on Jan 20 in Brockton.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A new legislative session begins today in Massachusetts and we have so much work to do for our #SickleCell #warriors this year. A new year—a new energy to bring change that’s a century overdue.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
The indescribable joy as a gay man of watching my husband and my mother making Christmas dinner together. Can’t quite put it into words. Merry Christmas everyone.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Among the things Musk and Trump stripped funding for by blocking the bipartisan budget bill last night? Desperately needed funds for #SickleCell care! The next four years are going to be a battle for our #warriors. Luckily we have some experience fighting the system.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
THIS. #SickleCell #ASH24 We’ve been waiting for this data for 25 years since SC was left out of the original MSH study.
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Can’t be there this year Have several drinks for me The FOMO is real @ash-hematology.bsky.social #ASHaiku #ASH24 #hematology #SickleCell
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Hey @ash-hematology.bsky.social any new #SickleCell providers and advocates making the journey across the @bsky.app bridge after yesterday’s talk by @shematologist.bsky.social #ASH24 #SickleCellDisease
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This is critical to standardizing a fundamental component of #SickleCell care.
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American Society of Hematology @ash.hematology.org · 02/12/2024
CMS is considering the adoption of ASH’s quality measure assessing timely pain treatment in the ED for patients w/ #SickleCell. Comment to support inclusion in the Hospital Outpatient & Rural Emergency Hospital Quality Reporting Programs. 🔗 p4qm.org/media/3166 #Hematology #ConquerSCD #HemeSky
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
An important and amazing step by the Biden Harris administration to advance access to care for our #SickleCell #Warriors but we now need to put pressure on the states to buy in. We have the foundation. Now we need to finish the work state by state. www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre...
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Biden-Harris Administration Takes Next Steps to Increase Access to Sickle Cell Disease Treatments | CMS
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that two drug manufacturers with Food and Drug Administration-approved gene therapies for sickle cell disease have entered into agreements with the Cen...
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My #SickleCell patient this morning tearfully begged me, “Please please don’t let Trump deport me. If I go back home, I’ll die.” This is going to be what the next four years are like. But our Center will use every resource we have to fight for our #Warriors
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
go.bsky.app/Gf3JzR A work in progress! We will add friends as they cross the Bluesky bridge
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It looks like we need to create a #SickleCell Starter Pack on here to bring all of our friends, community, and #Warriors together. Who have we got here amidst the bluer skies? #SCD #SickleCellDisease
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Sharl Azar, MD @thesickledoc.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hi @bsky.app I’m just making the jump! I’m Sharl. I direct the #SickleCell Center at #MassGeneral I’m an angry fierce patient advocate and a strong believer in creating change ourselves. Looking forward to exploring this new platform!
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