Zora Rogers, MD

Professor
Pediatrics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

zora.rogers@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-730-KIDS (5437).

Education

FellowshipUT Southwestern / Children's Medical Center (1990)
FellowshipUniversity of Southern California Med. Center-LAC (1987)
ResidencyUniversity of Southern California Med. Center-LAC (1986)
InternshipUniversity of Southern California Med. Center-LAC (1984)
Medical SchoolUniversity of California, San Diego (1983)

Research Interests

Characterization of the natural history and improvement of the treatment of children and adolescents with non-malignant hematologic diseases such as aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, and histiocytosis
Development of optimum management approaches to major clinical events in children with sickle cell disease (febrile illness, chest syndrome, painful crisis, avascular necrosis, stroke)
Use of hydroxyurea, stem cell transplantation and other therapies, particularly in young children, to prevent the morbidity of sickle cell anemia

Publications

Featured
A two year pilot trial of hydroxyurea in very young children with sickle cell anemia

Wang WC, Wynn LW, Rogers ZR, Scott JP, Lane PA and Ware RE , J Pediatr , 2001; (139):790-796

Featured
Outpatient penile aspiration and epinephrine irrigation for young patients with sickle cell anemia and prolonged priapism

Mantadakis E, Cavender JD, Rogers ZR, Ewalt DH and Buchanan GR , Blood , 2000; (95):78-82

Featured
Functional asplenia in hemoglobin SC disease

Lane PA, O'Connell JL, Lear JM, Rogers ZR, Woods GM, Hassell KL, Wethers DL, Luckey DW and Buchanan GR , Blood , 1995; (85):2238-2244

Featured
Outpatient management of febrile illness in infants and young children with sickle cell anemia

Rogers ZR, Morrison RA, Vedro DA, and Buchanan GR , J Pediatr , 1990; (117):736-739

Priapism in sickle cell disease

Rogers ZR , Hematol Oncol Clin N Am , 2005; (19):917-928

Minor elective surgical procedures using general anesthesia in children with sickle cell anemia without pre-operative blood transfusion

Fu T, Corrigan NJ, Quinn CT, Rogers ZR, and Buchanan GR , Pediatr Blood Cancer , 2005; (45):43-47

Longterm hydroxyurea therapy for infants with sickle cell anemia - the HUSOFT extension study

Hankins JS, Ware RE, Rogers ZR, Wynn LW, Lane PA, Scott JP, Wanc WC , Blood , 2005; (106):2269-2275

Survival of children with sickle cell disease.

Quinn CT, Rogers ZR, Buchanan GR , Blood , 2004; (103(11)):4023-4027

Acquired Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia as part of multiple-autoantibody syndrome in a pediatric heart transplant patient.

Rawal A, Sarode R, Curtis BR, Karandikar NJ, Friedman K, Rogers ZR , J Pediatr , 2004; (144 (5)):672-674

Honors/Awards

American Cancer Society

Texas Division Oncology, Research Fellowship (1989)

American Cancer Society

Clinical Oncology Fellowship (1988)

Phi Beta Kappa

Alpha of California (1978)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Society of Hematology

Society for Pediatric Research