Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Gift Planning: John Kriewall and Elizabeth Haehl

John Kriewall and Elizabeth Haehl are loyal supporters of our hospital. In 2000, the couple was instrumental in the establishment of the Pediatric Palliative Care Program, which combines...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Golf Classic supports new mental health program

On September 21, 18 foursomes of donors and friends played in the second annual Golf Classic to help raise funds for the child and adolescent mental health programs at Lucile Packard Children's...
Megan AlpersTuesday, November 17, 2015

Heart and Soul

Nurses in the Heart Center deliver extraordinary care and compassion on the front lines. It’s not uncommon this time of year to see refrigerators covered with holiday cards and warm wishes from...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

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...
By Rina Shaikh-LeskoTuesday, November 17, 2015

Thinking Outside the Box

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...
Stacy FinzTuesday, November 17, 2015

Works of Heart

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...
Megan AlpersTuesday, August 25, 2015

Where are they now? Quadruplets edition

The Wang family is truly one in a million. Born in October 2010, quadruplets Audrey, Emma, Isabelle, and Natalie Wang entered the world with the help of our team at the Charles B. and Ann L. Johnson...
Megan AlpersTuesday, August 25, 2015

Thank you for supporting Summer Scamper!

We are so grateful for the more than 3,200 individuals who ran, walked, Scampered, sponsored, and volunteered to make the 2015 Summer Scamper a huge success. We surpassed our goal of raising $500,000...
Megan AlpersTuesday, August 25, 2015

Building bridges: The role of interpreter services in our hospital

In a bright room within the neurosciences clinic at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, 24-year-old Kirandeep meets with her neurosurgeon, Michael S. B. Edwards, MD. As Edwards speaks to...