Colleen Callahan, RN, MSN, CRNP, a Nurse Practitioner on the Cancer Immunotherapy team in the Cancer Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is this year’s recipient of the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Pitcher of Hope Award. Colleen accepted the honor during a ceremony held on June 9 at the Hub for Clinical Collaboration on CHOP’s Philadelphia Campus. This award recognizes a CHOP employee who has gone above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of children with cancer.
Colleen has worked in pediatric oncology for 30 years and has been a nurse practitioner in the Cancer Center for 26 years. For the past 13 years, she has cared for patients before, during, and post CAR T-cell therapy in the outpatient setting. She follows these patients from their initial referral to the cancer immunotherapy team, through their T cell collection, T cell infusion, and then after infusion, monitoring for side effects, adverse events, and long-term effects and responses.
ALSF started with one lemonade stand hosted by its founder Alex in her front yard to raise money to help her CHOP doctors find cures for cancer - she raised more than $2,000 in just one day. Alex was diagnosed with neuroblastoma just before she turned 1, and she and her family moved from their hometown in Connecticut to Philadelphia to seek treatment at CHOP. Alex passed away in 2004 at the age of 8, having raised $1 million and left a legacy that inspired a nationwide fundraising movement. To date, ALSF has proudly donated approximately $20 million to CHOP through philanthropic support and research grants.
This year also marks 22 years of CHOP being a long-standing partner of ALSF. The inaugural recipient of the Pitcher of Hope Award honored Patricia “Pat” Brophy, one of Alex’s nurses at CHOP who passed away in 2008 after her own battle with cancer.
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Colleen Callahan, RN, MSN, CRNP, a Nurse Practitioner on the Cancer Immunotherapy team in the Cancer Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is this year’s recipient of the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Pitcher of Hope Award. Colleen accepted the honor during a ceremony held on June 9 at the Hub for Clinical Collaboration on CHOP’s Philadelphia Campus. This award recognizes a CHOP employee who has gone above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of children with cancer.
Colleen has worked in pediatric oncology for 30 years and has been a nurse practitioner in the Cancer Center for 26 years. For the past 13 years, she has cared for patients before, during, and post CAR T-cell therapy in the outpatient setting. She follows these patients from their initial referral to the cancer immunotherapy team, through their T cell collection, T cell infusion, and then after infusion, monitoring for side effects, adverse events, and long-term effects and responses.
ALSF started with one lemonade stand hosted by its founder Alex in her front yard to raise money to help her CHOP doctors find cures for cancer - she raised more than $2,000 in just one day. Alex was diagnosed with neuroblastoma just before she turned 1, and she and her family moved from their hometown in Connecticut to Philadelphia to seek treatment at CHOP. Alex passed away in 2004 at the age of 8, having raised $1 million and left a legacy that inspired a nationwide fundraising movement. To date, ALSF has proudly donated approximately $20 million to CHOP through philanthropic support and research grants.
This year also marks 22 years of CHOP being a long-standing partner of ALSF. The inaugural recipient of the Pitcher of Hope Award honored Patricia “Pat” Brophy, one of Alex’s nurses at CHOP who passed away in 2008 after her own battle with cancer.
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