International nurses travel to Memphis to learn about sickle cell
Sickle Cell patient Tabatha Marmon (middle) describes her experience with the disease during a panel discussion at last year’s University of Tennessee Health Sciences’ College of Nursing Sickle Cell Bootcamp. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Education about the sickle cell disease in nursing schools is limited, so the University of Tennessee Health Science Center launched Sickle Cell Nursing Boot Camp.
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Sickle Cell Disease UTHSC College of Nursing Sara Day St. Jude Children's Research HospitalAisling 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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