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Category Archives: volunteers
On a mission to help: Doctor’s intensive-care skills help poor children with heart trouble in Peru
BY JIM HOWE A career spent caring for very sick children, plus some mechanical ingenuity, helped I. Federico Fernández Nievas, MD, when he accompanied a medical charity team to Peru. He joined about two dozen other medical professionals from around … Continue reading
‘Can Man’ closes in on cancer fundraising goal
BY JIM HOWE A local fundraising effort is close to reaching its goal of cashing in a million returnable bottles and cans to fight cancer in Central New York. With participating redemption centers offering 6 cents per container for the … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, community, fundraising, health care, research, volunteers
Tagged Can Man, Cans for Cancer
Giving hope to youth affected by cancer
BY SUSAN KEETER Charlie Poole, 16, went hiking in Highland Forest last spring. It was an accomplishment for a young man who, 26 months earlier, was diagnosed with a brain tumor that left him with weakness in the right side … Continue reading
Posted in adolescents, brain/neurology, cancer, drugs/medications/pharmacy, health care, patient story, Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital/pediatrics, volunteers
Tagged diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma}, H.O.P.E. (Helping Oncology Patients and Families Engage)
Baseball-loving former patient, family pitch in to comfort kids with cancer
BY JIM HOWE In a baseball movie, Jack and Jordan Sheridan’s story might sound something like this: Pitcher goes on injured list, recovers and, together with energetic manager and support staff, helps and inspires his teammates. The pitcher is Jack, … Continue reading
Scientist walks political tightrope: He deals with Taliban to help his native land rebuild
BY JIM HOWE An Upstate faculty member who lost his mother as a baby and grew up in a refugee camp hopes he can help his war-scarred homeland, Afghanistan. To do this, he has secured the permission of the local … Continue reading
Posted in community, education, fundraising, health care, HealthLink on Air, international health care, public health, research, volunteers
Tagged Afghan charities, Afghan education projects, Afghan NGOs, Afghan nonprofits, Afghanistan, Afghanistan charities, Afghanistan education projects, Afghanistan nonprofits, Afghanistan school projects
Calming kids with teddy bears
Glenda Stowell and her husband, Fred, donated 10 teddy bears to the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital in 2011. After they retired, they wanted a new way to spend their time, and they liked the idea that the stuffed animals would … Continue reading
Posted in health care, Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital/pediatrics, volunteers
Tagged CNY Bear Team
Rural care: How a small-town PA found a niche career
BY JIM HOWE “Physician extenders” — such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners — have proved their worth to health care, especially in small towns and rural areas, where doctors are often scarce. “Doctors have found out that there is … Continue reading
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St. Baldrick’s money to boost clinical trials
Upstate is one of 39 institutions nationwide selected to share $2.2 million in grant money from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to advance patient access to clinical trials. Having access to clinical trials is vital to the treatment of childhood cancers. … Continue reading
She provided care in Ghana
Brandy Baillargeon of Watertown, a family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, traveled to Ghana through Upstate nurse Lauri Rupracht’s Americans Serving Abroad Project. She was touched by the gratitude of those she helped in several villages during the eight-day … Continue reading
From Elbridge to Ethiopia, with an Upstate nurse
BY AMBER SMITH Brooke Fraser, a 20-year veteran nurse from Elbridge who works in the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital, saves her days off for mission trips to countries in need. Last summer she travelled to Ethiopia and spent two weeks … Continue reading