What is Sarcoidosis?
Sarcoidosis is a multi-organ system disease with no known cause. It commonly affects the lungs, skin, eye and lymph nodes where the abnormal tissue development is seen in multiple areas.
Cathy Trumbull, an American Traveler Travel Nursing Clinical Coordinator, has formed the East Tennessee Sarcoidosis Support Group (ETSSG) and is involved in a national Sarcoidosis research project spearheaded by Dr. Wonder Drake, at Vanderbilt University, as part of a unified effort to one day beat this incurable disease.
The East Tennessee Sarcoidosis Support Group had their first Sarcoidosis Walk & Talk on May 31st at Campbell Station Park and Trails, in Tennessee. Cathy shared with us these details about the event (Read more ... )
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