UT Health Sciences News – Leading the Fight: Dr. Kenneth Ataga’s Mission to Advance Sickle Cell Care

When Kenneth Ataga, MD, talks about his work, his focus is always on his patients. He has spent more than two decades caring for people with sickle cell disease and searching for better treatments for the condition that often causes unpredictable pain, threatens organs, and shortens lives.

"I was attracted to medicine because I wanted to help people," says Dr. Ataga, the Plough Foundation Endowed Chair in Sickle Cell Disease, director of the Center for Sickle Cell Disease, and chief of Hematology at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences College of Medicine. "When I began to understand sickle cell disease and how it affects every aspect of a person's life, I knew this was where I could make a difference."

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