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Sarah Currie, RNC, MSN, NEA-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive

Sarah Currie, RNC, MSN, NEA-BC, is a Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Stories by Sarah Currie

First Year of WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer
First Year of WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer
Outreach

Memphis to Myanmar: A Year in the life of the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer

Gary Bridgman

Catherine Lam, MD, of St. Jude Global, has traveled around world to help low- and middle income countries improve children’s access to cancer care.

Highlighting the worldwide childhood cancer problem and how St. Jude is working toward a solution
Highlighting the worldwide childhood cancer problem and how St. Jude is working toward a solution
Outreach

Highlighting the worldwide childhood cancer problem and how St. Jude is working toward a solution

Echelle Rutschman

Read how this group is stepping up to tackle the global problem of pediatric cancer.

Clinical

St. Jude is easing pediatric sickle cell disease patients’ transition to adult care

Echelle Rutschman

Thanks to these efforts, patients with sickle cell disease are transitioning into adulthood and living long, healthy lives.

Chaperones: probing the structural secrets of the cell’s front-line protein protectors
Chaperones: probing the structural secrets of the cell’s front-line protein protectors
Research

Chaperones: probing the structural secrets of the cell’s front-line protein protectors

Charalampos Kalodimos, PhD

Read how this protein, called a chaperone, does more than simply monitor the intracellular dance of protein folding – it protects them from going awry.

A new cancer therapy DAWNs
A new cancer therapy DAWNs
Clinical

A new cancer therapy DAWNs

Martine F. Roussel, PhD

Read how this pre-clinical research fast-tracked a clinical trial for a diabolical pediatric brain tumor.

The St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at Mercy Children’s Hospital celebrates a decade of life-saving care
The St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at Mercy Children’s Hospital celebrates a decade of life-saving care
Outreach

The St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at Mercy Children’s Hospital celebrates a decade of life-saving care

Francisca Fasipe, MD

Read how the Mercy hospital in Springfield, Missouri, has grown since becoming a St. Jude affiliate clinic.

Rare childhood disorders widen window on Alzheimer’s Disease and other diseases of aging
Rare childhood disorders widen window on Alzheimer’s Disease and other diseases of aging
Research

Rare childhood disorders widen window on diseases of aging

Mary Powers

Read how extremely rare genetic childhood diseases offer clues about understanding neurodegenerative disorders common with aging.

How do you tackle a rare cancer?
How do you tackle a rare cancer?
Clinical

How do you tackle a rare cancer?

Alberto Pappo, MD

The rarest pediatric cancers are poorly understood, and more information can inform progress on disorders that plague children.

Adult pediatric cancer survivor represents St. Jude on Capitol Hill
Adult pediatric cancer survivor represents St. Jude on Capitol Hill
Outreach

Adult pediatric cancer survivor represents St. Jude on Capitol Hill

St. Jude Progress

Medical student and pediatric cancer survivor goes to Washington D.C., to advocate for children’s health.

This proposed solution to a long-standing cellular mystery comes with a visual aid
This proposed solution to a long-standing cellular mystery comes with a visual aid
Clinical

This proposed solution to a long-standing cellular mystery comes with a visual aid

Eric Enemark, PhD

It may look like some sort of strange modern art – but it’s a simple machine describing a very complicated, and mysterious, process.