Meet David, Your Summer Scamper Patient Hero
“Being in the hospital isn’t scary to me. Having a new problem isn’t scary to me anymore because it’s happened so many times. I…
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Meet Avi, Your 2021 Summer Scamper Patient Hero
Kristin Stecher and Rushabh Doshi can walk to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford from their home. “Rushabh went to graduate school at Stanford. We ran…
Meet Denielle, Your Summer Scamper Patient Hero
“I was diagnosed with my first cancer when I was 8 years old,” Denielle smiles confidently, fiddling with her beloved ukulele. “It was stage 4…
Meet Nataly, Your 2021 Virtual Summer Scamper Patient Hero
Pablo and Damaris Sánchez found out they were having a little girl 20 weeks into their pregnancy. But the exciting news took an unfortunate turn…
Meet Finn’s family, Your Summer Scamper Patient Heroes
After eight months of perfect doctor appointments, what began as a simple check-up at the local hospital unexpectedly turned into a chaotic emergency C-section….
WATCH: Association of Auxiliaries for Children Celebration Luncheon
Yesterday, our Association of Auxiliaries for Children held its annual Celebration Luncheon. It was an honor to be joined by Stephen Roth, MD, MPH, and…
Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation’s Gift Supports Innovators in Pediatric Health Technology
Did you know that medical devices designed for children lag well behind adult technologies? To speed up pediatric medical device research and development for the youngest…
Can a Self-Help Platform Provide Treatment for Youths with Eating Disorders?
Learning that their teen has an eating disorder can be difficult and deeply troubling news for parents. Even more daunting for families is finding that…
Curing the Incurable: Breakthrough Therapies Transforming the Future of Medicine
“There is no cure.” These words haunt millions of families whose children face a lifetime of incurable illness. While medications and surgical interventions can improve…
Heart Patient Sets the Stage for Giving
Nathan Zingg has big dreams. A freshman at Chapman University, Nathan is studying screenwriting with plans to one day write movies, star on the big…
