Tag: Strong Kids

Persevering through Loss: Family Support and Skilled Care helps Teen Fully Recover from Tragedy

Jacob Cole is 15. The high school freshman likes Harry Potter, the Buffalo Bills, concerts, fast food and fancy cars, as in Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Though functionally blind from birth and small ...

In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Lucille stood at the bedside of her son, Marquan. She was looking at a shell of what she knew him to be...a gregarious, loving young boy. At 12 years old, the ...

Toddler with Down Syndrome Smiles through Heart Surgery, Chemotherapy

Called the Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Scholars Program, it will help scholars acquire skills to advocate for policy level change addressing health inequity and its impact on groups ...

For Nanda Kerkar, M.D., performing a liver transplant is a ‘team sport.’ Ever since joining Golisano Children’s Hospital in 2017 as the director of Pediatric Liver Disease and Liver Transplantation, ...

When Nick Fioravanti was diagnosed with cerebral palsy before his first birthday, his parents, Julie and Alex, decided he would live as full and joyful a life as possible. To reach that goal, they ...

For children born with lifelong, complex health conditions at Golisano Children's Hospital, the newly formed Transitional Care Medicine team guides them through the sometimes-tricky path from "kid" ...

Nadia Fulford was diagnosed with sickle cell disease very early in life, and she has spent all of her young life learning to live with it. She had no choice, because there is no cure.

Dr. Maura Tappen liked Rochester so much during medical school that she decided to stay here for her residency in psychiatry.