Donor Spotlight
As we have been for nearly a century, we are here 24/7 for sick and injured children and their families, thanks to generations of individuals and corporations who have invested in us. Today’s cures and treatments are their legacies. Tomorrow’s can be your’s. Meet some of our remarkable supporters.
A Family Works to Fill Void
In his pint-size white doctor’s coat, Adam, 4, hands over a check to help fund the research that will help him grow up. In return, he gets a hug from his physician, Emily Germain-Lee, in the Pediatric Clinical Research Unit at Hopkins Children’s.
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Sahara Marathon For Hopkins Children's
As if raising four children and working as a portfolio manager for T. Rowe Price isn’t demanding enough, Marylander Jeff Arricale trained for months to take on what is considered the toughest foot race on earth. During the six-day, 156-mile marathon across the Sahara that ended in early April, Arricale ran for Hopkins Children’s pulmonary team.
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Repaying a Favor
At five months of age, Carson Harris began to exhibit behaviors that perplexed her first-time parents. Following crying fits, the infant would stare off into space. When she began periodically to shrug her shoulders, lifting her arms into the air as if to say “I don’t know,” recalls her father, her mother began videotaping what appeared to be a cute mannerism. When Carson began banging her head on a toy, the Glen Arm, Md., couple called her pediatrician, who recommended they take her to the pediatric neurology clinic at Hopkins Children’s.
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Providing a Safe Harbor
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When her daughter, Katie, was diagnosed with pediatric diabetes at the age of 13, Wanda King turned to Johns Hopkins. “I wanted the best for her,” she says, “and that’s what I got.” In the care of pediatric endocrinologist Leslie Plotnick, pediatric nurse educator Loretta Clark and the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center diabetes team, Katie’s life was returned to a normal and healthy trajectory.
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Hitting the Great Wall of China
Jeff Arricale thought of the blessings in his life. Chief among them was his family – particularly his 5-year-old son Jake in whose honor Arricale and two intrepid T. Rowe Price colleagues were traversing some of the steepest and harshest terrain in the world. Their endeavor would raise more than $60,000 to fund an internationally known visiting professor to deliver an annual lecture to teach and foster new research and therapies for the treatment of chronic interstitial lung disease in children. Jake was diagnosed with the disease at Hopkins when he less than 6 months old.
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Henry and Harriet Lane Johnston
In 1912, with an endowment bequeathed by grieving parents, the nation’s first pediatric hospital affiliated with an academic research institution opened at Johns Hopkins. The Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children – named for banker Henry and his wife Harriet Lane Johnston, niece of the American president James Buchanan (and “First Lady” during his administration) – opened alongside Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
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