Partners MERI and Genesis push past COVID impact to continue medical training
Medical professionals practice procedures at Medical Education and Research Institute (MERI), a medical teaching, training school and bioskills lab located at 44 S. Cleveland St. in MIdtown. The cadavers on which surgeons practice procedures are acquired through Genesis Legacy Whole Body Donation Foundation. (Courtesy MERI)
COVID-19 resulted in fewer donations for Genesis Legacy Whole Body Donation Foundation, a non-transplant anatomic donation organization that shares space with the Medical Education and Research Institute.
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Aisling Mäki
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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