There are 22 article(s) tagged Dr. James Downing:
St. Jude and WHO said they’d begun delivering lifesaving medicines for children with cancer in pilot countries Mongolia and Uzbekistan, with the next shipments planned for Ecuador, Jordan, Nepal and Zambia.
Maria Megdal comes to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital from Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and will oversee a number of departments vital to the hospital’s operations.
Dr. James Downing, president and CEO of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, is leading a $12.9 billion, six-year strategic plan — the largest investment in the hospital’s history.
Each day this Thanksgiving week, Marlo Thomas will appear on NBC’s “Today” show during segments that feature St. Jude patients and the hospital’s campus in Memphis.
Pizza cutters were used in place of the usual oversized scissors at Wednesday’s ribbon cutting for The Domino’s Village, funded by pizza giant Domino’s as part of a 10-year, $100 million commitment to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
The projects are part of the hospital’s Blue-Sky program, which encourages innovative ideas from employees.
Previous Communicator of the Year Award recipients include Liberty Bowl founder Bud Dudley, Cecil Humphreys, Linn Sitler, D’Army Bailey, Dr. Scott Morris, Fred Jones, Beverly Robertson, Otis Sanford, Penny Hardaway and Joe Birch.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s $13 billion campus expansion, the largest in its history, is progressing.
“Dr. Park brings a wealth of knowledge, deep experience and considerable talent to St. Jude.”
As the hospital’s six-year, multi-billion dollar expansion gets underway, 500 office employees have moved into 150 Peabody Place. And area shops and restaurants are mighty glad to see them.
“Debate is healthy, but not when the debate is about wearing a mask that can decrease the chance of children contracting COVID-19,” Dr. James Downing said.
“All our leaders around the state and region understand the connection between rising case counts and bans on masking,” mayor says.
Children now account for more COVID-19 infections in Shelby County than 18- to 34-year-olds, another record.
“Why are we now debating whether children should be protected amid a raging pandemic that has killed more than 600,000 in the U.S. alone?”
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is launching its largest strategic investment in its nearly six decades in Memphis.
Since 2018, St. Jude and WHO have partnered to address common issues in low cancer survivor rates, including late or incorrect diagnoses.
On "Behind The Headlines," Dr. James Downing talked about the gap between public health and health care as well as the research hospital's $20 million effort to keep the virus off its campus through weekly testing. Data from the testing regimen is also part of a global research effort and St. Jude is participating in clinical trials for a vaccine.
Not long ago, the COVID-19 reports were encouraging. Now, I look at the numbers with a feeling of dread.
Direct from the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, Madan Babu will direct the Center of Excellence for Data-Driven Discovery at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Later this year, St. Jude expects to accept patients for clinical trials in pediatric neurology.
Among the findings was genetic coding that proved there is more than a passing chance that some cancers are inherited.
St. Jude now includes two staff dogs for calming and cuddling.
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