Campaign Stories

Diagnosed with autism at age 2, Franco has come a long way thanks to therapy at CHOP. Next up for his family? Tacking the Eagles Autism Challenge in May.

Jessica Giannasca, Senior Director of IS Business Operations at CHOP, gained an intimate understanding of the patient family experience when her daughter Lily was treated at CHOP at 5 years old.

Drs. Hanna and Zinman's planned gifts to CHOP will provide scholarship funds to first-year physician fellows in Cardiology and Pulmonology, and support the overall fellowship budgets for each division.

When Olivia was just 4 days old, she had open-heart surgery to repair her coarctation of the aorta, a congenital heart disease.

Parker is an energetic, fun-loving 2-year-old. When he was a year old, a liver transplant saved his life. The live donor was his mother’s best friend.

Claire, 3, is loving her new-found energy after having a liver transplant at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Pediatric Transplant Center.

Diagnosed with osteosarcoma at age 14, Arnav and his family sought the expertise of CHOP, where a limb-sparing surgery gave him a chance to keep pursuing his passion for cycling.

Frantic to save Paulina’s life, her family brought her to the Cancer Center at CHOP where an experimental trial of CAR T-cell therapy cured her cancer.

Juliet is the first patient in the world to be diagnosed with a rare form of mitochondrial disease. The breakthrough discovery led to the diagnosis of 80 additional patients worldwide.

Kayla’s parents founded a nonprofit and have raised more than $1 million for pediatric brain tumor research at CHOP.