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Ways Our Families and Friends Are Helping
Individual contributions help us to continue our mission of improving the health of sick children through excellence in patient care, teaching and research. Individual gifts can be made to the Hopkins Children’s to support various programs, services or research projects – all of which benefit our patients and their families.
Baker Family Funds Playground for New Hopkins Children's Building
Pediatric patients will have their own retreat in the new children’s hospital, two stories of it, in fact. The family of Julia Scott Clayton Baker, a Baltimorean by marriage and devotion, is bringing some of the outside in to them. In what Hopkins’ architects dub “The Great Escape” – an enclosed playroom on the building’s top two levels – patients will be able to leave some worries behind and delight in a sunlit expanse of “nature” with a simulated beach and garden, and a real playground.
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Funding a Fellowship in Ethics
Pediatric neurologist John Freeman, who directed the Division of Pediatric Epilepsy from 1972 to 2002, and Elaine Freeman, former vice president of Corporate Communications, together gave nearly a century of their lives to Johns Hopkins Medicine. Now they’re giving even more in creating and funding a fellowship in a much-needed area – clinical ethics.
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Reinhard Family Funds Professorship to Combat Food Allergies
In Bethesda, Md., Julie Reinhard ignored her former pediatrician’s suggestion that she feed her 9-month-old peanut butter as a source of protein. “A red flag went up,” she recalls. “I didn’t understand then anything about ‘sensitization’ and ‘exposure,’ but I’d heard warnings against giving very young children peanut products because of possible allergic reactions.”
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Running the Great Wall of China for Pediatric Pulmonology
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 help foster new research and therapies for the treatment of chronic interstitial lung disease in children.
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Mental Health in Pediatric Primary Care
Concerned by the growing numbers of children with mental health issues in Hopkins Children’s community clinic and the consequences for untreated children, The Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Hopkins Children’s Harriet Lane Clinic have developed, with the help of private funding, a new model for mental health services in a pediatric primary care setting.
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Shattucks Donate $1 Millon for Burn Unit in New Building
Constellation Energy Group CEO Mayo Shattuck and his wife, Molly, have given $1 million through their family foundation toward construction of a new pediatric burn center at Hopkins Children's. The burn unit in their name will be housed in the new hospital building, now under construction.
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A Family Invests in Finding Answers to Prevent Biliary Atresia
More than 100 golfers braved a wet and stormy course May 30 in the name of Zachary Meehan. They gathered at the Oakmount Green Golf Course in Hampstead, Md., for the 11th Annual Zachary Meehan Memorial Golf Tournament to help fund research at Hopkins Children’s to prevent the leading reason for all pediatric liver transplants: biliary atresia.
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A Family Works to Fill Void For Rare Endocrine Condition
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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Blogging from the Sahara for Hopkins
Sahara desert in Morocco. Excerpts from Jeff Arricale’s emails home during the Marathon des Sables, Mar. 28-April 3, 2008, during which Arricale, with the help of colleagues, family and friends raised more than $80,000 for pediatric pulmonology at Hopkins Children's.
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Carson Harris Fund Commemorates End of Seizures
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 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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Hard Travelers in the Spirit
Musicians Mack Bailey, Kenn Roberts and the Hard Travelers make it their business to bring music and lots of fun to Hopkins Children's patients and their families.
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Pediatric Cardiology Seeks Fellowship Support
In the Helen B. Taussig Children’s Cardiac Center in the Department of Pediatrics at Hopkins Children’s, director Joel Brenner wants to ensure that its legacy as a world leader in advancing pediatric cardiology continues. He is engaged in building the Division of Pediatric Cardiology’s endowment to support its fellowship program. “Our fellows represent the future of this specialty,” says Brenner who had led the division for nearly a decade, and overseen its growth from five to thirteen faculty members today.
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Providing a Safe Harbor for Children with Diabetes
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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 pediatric diabetes team, Katie’s healthy life was restored.
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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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Sara’s Garden: A Sanctuary for Families Planned for New Hospital
Cheryl and Steve Wilhide and their family are raising funds toward the design and creation of “Sara’s Garden” in the new hospital building's open courtyard. Drawn from the images of Sara’s favorite book, "The Little Prince," the garden captures interactive elements from the children's story such as volcanoes, a water pump, birds-in-flight and stars that light up when brushed. “Sara would have loved it,” says her father.
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Swimming from the Heart for Pediatric Cardiology
Kade Hannan was among those who swam to help others last summer. In his little turtle-print swimming trunks, the 4-year-old dog-paddled in the shallow end of the Towson Golf and Country Club pool, surrounded by children and adults swimming lap after lap in his name. His sister, Margo, 7, swam 76 laps. By day’s end, they had raised more than $16,000 for the Division of Pediatric Cardiology fund to support Hopkins Children’s cardiac patient families.
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Tutoring In the Harriet Lane Clinic
Fifth-grader Daja Bailey is reading about flamingos in Hopkins Children’s Harriet Lane Clinic. In a nearby exam room, her younger sister Keyona reviews spelling words. And around the corner in a small conference room, Antuane Breeden, 9, concentrates on math flash cards. Each is in the engaged company of a Johns Hopkins University student devoting two afternoons a week to tutor one of the 15 Harriet Lane patients after clinic hours.
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Tyrin Burton Fund to Benefit Hopkins Children's Burn Program
The family of Tyrin Burton has set up a memorial fund in his name at Hopkins Children's to help others afford many of the items critical to the best rehabilitation possible after pediatric burn patients leave the hospital. To help support the Tyrin Burton Fund at Hopkins the family is hosting a charity ball, Sat., April 5, 2009, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., at Martin's East, featuring "L.A. and the Unusual Suspects." For tickets, $100 each, call 410-866-1820.
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Valentine from the Heart: Parents Thank Pediatric Cardiology
We knew our son was sick before he was born. It was evident something was wrong with his heart. Two months after his birth, Joseph underwent open heart surgery at Hopkins Children’s to repair multiple congenital heart defects. Throughout his infancy, he was weak and fragile, requiring constant medical care and trips to Hopkins. It was a rough recovery, with scary moments, but he came through it like the fighter he is.
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Hopkins Pediatric Burn Unit Charity Ball Planned
In appreciation for the compassionate care her son Tyrin received in the pediatric burn center at Hopkins Children’s, Marylander Tanaya Banks and her family are organizing their first fundraiser to support their new Tyrin Burton Fund at Hopkins in his memory.
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Marriott Chef Cooks Up a Fundraiser
Executive Chef Tim Mullen put his culinary expertise to good use – raising money for Hopkins Children’s – with a reception at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. The culinary extravaganza supported Mullen and Iron Chefs participation in “Team Leah II” in the American Odyssey Relay Adventure from Gettysburg to Washington, D.C.,“to give back” to Hopkins Children's for his daughter's care.
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Mental Health in Pediatric Primary Care
Concerned by the growing numbers of children with mental health issues in Hopkins Children’s community clinic and the consequences for untreated children, The Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Hopkins Children’s Harriet Lane Clinic have developed, with the help of private funding, a new model for mental health services in a pediatric primary care setting.
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Raffles, In-Store Promotions Among CMN Fundraisers
Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) sponsors, including Wal-Mart, SAM'S CLUB, Marriott, Rite Aid, RE/MAX and Costco, are among the many national corporations that support Hopkins Children's with in-store promotions, employee contests, customer contributions, and fundraisers like car washes and those paper CMN balloon sales.
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Ravens' Stover Helps Kick Off Hopkins Children's Fundraiser
Baltimore Ravens kicker Matt Stover demonstrated again his longtime support of Hopkins Children’s with a generous check to help launch the kick-off of Mix 106.5 FM’s annual Radiothon, that galvanized corporate and community support for Hopkins Children’s.
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Reading to Patients at Hopkins Children's
Simone Thompson sweeps her blue velvet cape over one shoulder to reveal her matching velvet bag, weighted by a half-a-dozen story books. “I am the story lady today,” she tells, with aplomb, an enquiring passerby on the pediatric patient unit. Most days she is a social work supervisor in the pediatric emergency department and coordinator for Hopkins Children’s Child Protection team.
Thompson is among a growing number of staff volunteers in the new Mobile Reading Program on pediatric inpatient floors.
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Running for Sydney Moss to Cure Biliary Atresia
Feeling helpless against the chronic disease threatening their little daughter Sydney, but about which so little still is known, Lindsay and Stephen Moss decided to fund Johns Hopkins research that may finally explain its cause. Avid joggers, the Mosses organized and hosted a charity foot race to help fund biliary atresia research.
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Tri to Help Fuels Epilepsy Research at Hopkins Children's
Johns Hopkins employee Trent Stroup ran (biked and swam) his fourth “Tri to Win” triathlon in March, 2009, to help support the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Hopkins Children’s and the research of epilepsy specialist Eric Kossoff, who has cared for Stroup’s daughter since infancy. This year’s event took place at two local clubs, Brick Bodies and Merritt Athletic Club.
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Providing a Safe Harbor for Children with Diabetes
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 pediatric diabetes team, Katie’s healthy life was restored.
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Dr. Cathy DeAngelis Endowment Fund Established For Child Life
Catherine DeAngelis, M.D. — editor-in-chief of JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Scientific Publications and Multimedia Applications and former vice dean for academic affairs and faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine — has designated a $100,000 grant for the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center to establish the Dr. Cathy DeAngelis Endowment Fund.
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