Music therapist Mike Mahoney, MA, MT-BC, offers up instruments from his cart: maracas, a drum, a keyboard. The children at the Alex Scott Day Hospital are eager to sing and play music.

Sedation is common before procedures and scans such as an MRI, and as a child life specialist in Radiology’s Sedation Unit, Melanie Hoynoski is there to prepare kids on what to expect.

In the latest report from CHOP’s Division of General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery, we highlight some of the ways our clinicians — with the help of philanthropic partners — are breaking new ground in pediatric and fetal surgery.

Noni Diarra, a biopsy specimen technician at CHOP, will represent her home state as the recently crowned Miss Pennsylvania.