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A Day in the Life
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Catharyn A. Turner II, MD, MEd, is a psychiatrist in the Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) within the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. When CHOP opens its first-ever inpatient psychiatric hospital in West Philadelphia next spring, she will be its medical director. This is a day in her life.
Why I Give
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My husband, Keven, and I wanted our philanthropy to reach as many people as possible. Giving to CHOP lets us have a positive effect on so many children locally and, through scientific research, even globally.
A Century of Breakthroughs
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Beginning as a single laboratory in the hospital’s basement, the CHOP research program has grown into one of the largest in the country, with 525 investigators and a staff of thousands.
Why I Give
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Since I am a mom to five kids, my family has used our fair share of CHOP services through the years!
A Day in the Life
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Kayla Huey, BSN, RN, SANE, is the first nurse hired to work in the Madlyn K. Abramson Emergency Department (ED) at the Middleman Family Pavilion, CHOP’s new hospital in King of Prussia. This is a day in her life.
‘Joy, Happiness and Lives to Be Lived’
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Stan Middleman has a vision for the building that bears his family’s name.
25 Years of Changing Lives, One Book at a Time
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Twins Tamairra and Tiairra were infants when Trude Haecker, MD, now Medical Director of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Reach Out and Read program, gave the girls their first book. Until that moment, their mother, Tamia, was unaware of the importance of reading to her children.
Health on Wheels
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A new Mobile Health Unit brings care and more to adolescents in underserved neighborhoods.
Turning an Audacious Idea into Reality
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Surgery on a baby inside the mother’s womb was once inconceivable. CHOP pioneered the procedure. The Wood family’s generosity is fueling the next era.
A Day in the Life to Realize the Hope of Science
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Let’s say you would like to be Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Here are just a few things you will need: a keen intellect, a sterling CV distinguished by the highest levels of clinical and research achievement, a vision for how CHOP can lead the next great advances in pediatric science, and stamina. Lots of it.