St. Jude’s Downing to be inducted into Health Care Hall of Fame
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital CEO Dr. James R. Downing speaks before hundreds of St. Jude and ALSAC employees leave their campus for a 465-mile run from Memphis to Peoria, Illinois, on July 30. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Dr. James Downing joins St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital founder Danny Thomas and Church Health founder Dr. Scott Morris as an honoree.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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