How Your Support Helps in the Children’s Heart Center
Every day, the Children’s Heart Center at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford delivers unsurpassed outcomes for patients with complex heart conditions. As a not-for-profit hospital, we are...
Stephen Roth, MD, MPH, Director, Children’s Heart CenterTuesday, November 17, 2015
Shaping a Brighter Future
In medicine we often refer to the “natural history of disease”— the normal course that a disease takes in an individual if no treatment occurs. In the case of congenital heart disease, the “natural...
With some of the nation’s most innovative researchers in pediatric cardiology, the Children’s Heart Center is transforming the health and well-being of children with heart disease in our community...
Giving birth to her first child was a surreal experience for Tawny Aye—and not the way it is for most mothers. That evening in February 2007, there were as many as 14 doctors, nurses, and other staff...
In August, George Lui, MD, gave the Stone family of Aptos news that none of them, including Lui himself, had expected. Brooke Stone, 27, had spent the day undergoing rigorous evaluation of her heart...
Frank Hanley, MD, Executive Director, Children's Heart CenterTuesday, November 17, 2015
Bringing the Best to Every Child
A baby is born near New York City. He has a condition called pulmonary atresia with aortopulmonary collaterals, one of the most complex of all congenital heart defects. His pulmonary arteries never...
Everything Changed in a Heartbeat: Q&A with Kavin Desai, MD, and Maya Desai
What happens when a 25-year veteran pediatric cardiologist suddenly finds himself with an unexpected new patient—his own daughter? Earlier this year, 15-year-old Maya Desai, an accomplished high...
Children's Circle of Care: Dianna and Timothy Murphy
Dianna and Timothy Murphy of San Ramon believe in paying it forward. Thankful that their 18-year-old son, Kevin, is alive today because of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, they now...
Special Delivery: Volunteers go the extra mile to make a patient’s day
Recently the Roth Auxiliary volunteers who staff our hospital’s gift shop received a special note from Don Goad of Nashville, Tennessee. Don’s 4-year-old grandson, Micah, has a rare heart defect...
