Dereck "D." B. Davis, MD
Associate Professor
Department:
SOM-Peds-Hematology/Oncology
Email:
ddavis7@umc.edu
Work Phone:
(601) 984-5220
Education
| Emory University/Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Fellowship Certificate, Bone Marrow Transplant | 2018 |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center, Fellowship Certificate, Pediatric Hematology | 2017 |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center, Residency, Pediatrics | 2004 |
| University of South Alabama, MD, Medicine | 2001 |
| Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS Bachelor of Science, Biology, BS, Bachelor of Science | 1995 |
Specialty Certification Licensure
| Licensure, MS State Board of Medical Licensure | 07/2004 - 06/2024 |
| Certification, Drug Enforcement Agency (current), Drug Enforement | |
| Certification, American Board of Pediatrics General Pediatrics Board Certified, American Board of Pediatrics (current) | 10/2011 - Present |
| Licensure, Georgia Medical Board | 04/2017 - 03/2019 |
| Licensure, North Carolina Medical Board, North Carolina Medical Board | 04/2007 - 03/2014 |
Current Positions
| Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics | 07/2018 - Present |
| Director, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics | 07/2018 - Present |
| The University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi 39216 | |
Academic Appointments or Other Previous Appointments
| Affiliate Instructor, University of Mississippi Medical Center, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics | 10/2011 - 07/2014 |
| Vice Chair, Children's of Mississippi, School of Medicine |
Sponsored Program Funding
| Extramural, A Phase 1/2 Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of a Single Does of Autologous Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Gene-edited CD34+ Human Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells ( EDIT-301) in Subjects with Severe Sickle Cell Disease--Site PI, Editas Medicine | 05/2021 - 08/2025 |
| Extramural, AVA-PED-301 A Phase 3b, Multi-center, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Parallel-group Trial with an Open-label Extension Phase to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Avatrombopag for the Treatment of Thrombocytopenia in Pediatric Subjects with Immune Thrombocytopenia for #6 Months ---Site PI, SOBI | 03/2021 - 11/2025 |
| Extramural, Clinical Transplant Related Long Term Outcomes of Alternative Donor Allogeneic Transplantation, Bone Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network | 06/2019 - 03/2025 |
| Extramural, ACCL1633: The Effectiveness of Lactobacillus Plantarum in Preventing Acute Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD) in Children Undergoing Alternative Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplantation (HCT) -- Site PI, Children's Oncology Group | 08/2018 - 09/2022 |
| Extramural, PBMTC SUP1601: Pathogen Identification in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients with Suspected Lower Respiratory Tract Infections Site PI, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium | 06/2016 - 12/2019 |
Publications
Journal Article | |
| Zinter MS, Dvorak CC, Mayday MY, Reyes G, Simon MR, Pearce EM, Kim H, Shaw PJ, Rowan CM, Auletta JJ, Martin PL, Godder K, Duncan CN, Lalefar NR, Kreml EM, Hume JR, Abdel-Azim H, Hurley C, Cuvelier GDE, Keating AK, Qayed M, Killinger JS, Fitzgerald JC, Hanna R, Mahadeo KM, Quigg TC, Satwani P, Castillo P, Gertz SJ, Moore TB, Hanisch B, Abdel-Mageed A, Phelan R, Davis DB, Hudspeth MP, Yanik GA, Pulsipher MA, Sulaiman I, Segal LN, Versluys BA, Lindemans CA, Boelens JJ, DeRisi JL Pulmonary microbiome and transcriptome signatures reveal distinct pathobiologic states associated with mortality in two cohorts of pediatric stem cell transplant patients. Pediatric Transplantation and Cell Therapy Consortium. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Nov 29:2023.11.29.23299130. doi: 10.1101/2023.11.29.23299130 | 2023 |
| Karlson CW, Barajas KG, Seals SR, Britt AB, Schlenz AM, Jackson EA, Davis DB, Morris MC, Valrie CR. Longitudinal Predictors of Pain in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease. Karlson CW, Barajas KG, Seals SR, Britt AB, Schlenz AM, Jackson EA, Davis DB, Morris MC, Valrie CR. Longitudinal Predictors of Pain in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease. J Pediatr Psychol. 2023 Jul 5;48(6):553-561. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsad017. PMID: 37043758. | 2023 |
| Newman LA, Luter MA, Davis DB, Abdul-Rahman OA, Johnson JM, Megason GC, Congenital Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia: A Case Series Indicating 2 Founder Variants in the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology, 2017 Oct;39(7):573-575 | 2017 |
| Davis D, Mashegu H, Majumdar S, An Update on Sickle Cell Anemia in Children and Adolescents. Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association, 2015 Sep;56(9):268-71 | 2015 |
| Davis D, Nowicki M, Giles H, Cricopharyngeal achalasia responsive to balloon dilation in an infant. Southern medical journal, 2005 Apr;98(4):472-4 | 2005 |
| Ogbaselase-Beck, F. A., Williams-Kirkwood, W., Johal, S., Bailey, A., Jackson, E., Davis, D., Karlson, C. W. Medical and Socioeconomic Risk Factors for Academic and Psychological Outcomes in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease. (In press) Clinical Pediatrics. | |
| Davis DB, A sallow infant. Clinical pediatrics, 2004 Jul-Aug;43(6):587-8; discussion 589-91 | |
Presentations
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Changing the Focus of Sickle Cell Disease Care at Children's of Mississippi, Children's of Mississippi | 01/2024 |
| Invited Symposia, Health Care Access in the Mississippi Delta, Together for Hope, Cleveland, Mississippi | 10/2023 |
| Invited Symposia, Perspectives and Challenges in Caring for Patients Living with Sickle Cell Disease, Vertex Pharmaceutical/National Medical Association, New Orleans, LA | 07/2023 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, An Approach to Sickle Cell Curative Therapies, Children's of Mississippi | 05/2022 |
| Expert lecturer, A Review of Sickle Cell and Curative Therapies, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Virtual | 04/2022 |
| State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Transitioning from Chronic Illness to Curable Disease, MS Sickle Cell Foundation, Jackson Medical Mall | 09/2019 |
| Poster Presentation, HSCT outcomes of Native American patients with c-MPL mutations, ASPHO, Phoenix, AZ | 05/2015 |
Honors, Awards, and Recognition
| Best New Faculty, UMMC Dept of Pediatrics | 2019 |
Professional Membership and Service
| Blood And Marrow Transplant Clinical Trial Network, Member | 2022 - Present |
| Pediatric Blood & Marrow Transplant Consortium, Member | 2020 - Present |
| Sickle Cell Transplant Alliance for Research (STAR), Member | 2019 - Present |
| American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Member | 2015 - Present |
| American Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Member | 2014 - Present |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology, Member | 2014 - 2018 |
| Children's Oncology Group, Member | 2014 - Present |
| American Society of Hematology, Member | 2014 - 2019 |
| Mississippi State Medical Association, Member | 2014 - 2018 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow | 2014 - 2018 |
| University of South Alabama College of Medicine Alumni Association (Current), Fellow |
Committee Service
| Family Advisory Support Team (Children's), Member | 2022 - Present |
| STAR Committee on Patient/Parent Advocacy, Co-Chair | 2019 - Present |
| THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS AND CLINICS-BLOOD TRANSFUSION, Member | 2019 - Present |
| Clinical Competency Committee-Michelle Piloskin, Member | 2018 - 2019 |
| Clinical Competency Committee -Erin Jackson, Member | 2018 - 2019 |
| Mississippi Sickle Cell Foundation, Member | 2015 - Present |
| SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-RESIDENCY REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE, Member | 2015 - 2017 |
| Fellowship Program Evaluation Committee, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Member | 2014 - Present |
| Research Council, Peds Hematology Oncology, Member | 2014 - Present |
| Quality Improvement, Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Member | 2014 - Present |
| Pediatric Discovery Council, Member |
Community Service
| Ridgeland High School, Black History Speaker | 04/2022 - 04/2022 |
| Make A Wish/Abraham's Table, Facilitator | 03/2022 - 03/2022 |
| Mississippi Sickle Cell Foundation, Presenter | 11/2021 - 11/2021 |
| Mississippi Sickle Cell Foundation, Speaker | 09/2021 - 09/2021 |
| Together for Hope, Board Member | 08/2021 - Present |
| Mississippi Sickle Cell Foundation, Lecturer | 04/2021 - 04/2021 |
| Northside Baptist Church, Deacon | 10/2020 - Present |
| Make-A-Wish Mississippi, Chapter Medical Advisor | 03/2020 - Present |
| MSCF Teen Retreat, Camp Physician/Chaperone | 07/2019 - 07/2019 |
| Mississippi Sickle Cell Foundation Christmas Carnival, Santa | 12/2018 - 12/2018 |
| CAMP Rainbow Mississippi, Camp Physician | 06/2015 - 06/2019 |
| MS Sickle Cell Foundation, Chair, Education Committee | 04/2014 - Present |
Other Service
| NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Subcommittee | 07/2020 - 06/2023 |
| NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Subcommittee | 10/2019 - 10/2019 |
Teaching Experience
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Medical Pharmacology | Spring 2023 - 2023 |
| Medicine, Small Group, Lecturer, Biochemistry | Fall 2022 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Low Bacterial Diet for Infection Control in Neutropenic Patients | Fall 2022 - 2022 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Basics of Bone Marrow Transplant for Anesthesia | Fall 2021 - 2021 |
| Medicine, Small Group, Facilitator, Sickle Cell Clinical Correlation | Fall 2021 - 2021 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Bare Bones of Bone Marrow Transplant | Fall 2021 - 2021 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Renal Disease Post HSCT | Fall 2021 - 2021 |
| Medicine, Small Group, Facilitator, Sickle Cell Clinical Coorelation | Fall 2020 - 2020 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Facilitator, Gene Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease | Fall 2020 - 2020 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Review of Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm | Fall 2020 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, BMT Jeopardy | Fall 2019 - 2019 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Attending, "Ay Dios Mio" | Fall 2018 - 2018 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Attending, Use of Eltrombopag in Immune Thrombocytopenia | Fall 2018 - 2018 |
| Pediatric Residents, Lecture, Lecturer, Platelet Disorders | Fall 2015 |
| Pediatric Residents, Lecture, Lecturer, Platelet Disorders | Spring 2015 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Pediatric Lymphomas | Fall 2015 |
| Medicine, Lecture, Lecturer, Gamma Delta T-Cell Lymphoma | Fall 2015 |
| Medicine, Small Group, Facilitator, Sickle Cell Clinical Correlation | Fall 2014 |
Fellows supervised
| Peds Hematology/Oncology, Attending Physician, 2 fellows supervised | 07/2018 - Present |
Residency Training
| Pediatrics, Advisor | 2019 - Present |
| Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Attending Physician | 2018 - Present |