www.thalsite.com is Lisa's own personal site that is still administered by her mom, Shirley.
I don't think anyone on earth deserves thalassemia.com more than Oakland Children's Hospital. Oakland's Dr Vichinsky is my hero and a more dedicated doctor and researcher can not be found.
When choosing the name for our new site after leaving MSN, we did have the option of changing the name of this site to something shorter. However, this is the name Lisa gave her site, because she welcomed all. She made it very clear that it was to include family and friends and had no desire to run some exclusive, patients only site. In her own personal life, Lisa drew much strength from family and friends and recognized the value that everyone had to offer. I know the name is long, but to keep the true spirit of her site, we kept the long name. I like the idea of a short re-direct and wonder if we could find something even shorter.