Participating Great Clips salons will donate a portion of the proceeds from each haircut during the cut-a-thon to the school re-entry program at Children’s Minnesota.
The first cancerous tumor that was discovered in Anja's liver was when she was 9 month old, at the height of the pandemic. In just two years, Anja has fought and defeated cancer twice!
Jake's mom, Erika, passed away after a fight with acute myeloid leukemia. And now, Jake is fighting for his life too – he was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma when he was in third grade, at just 9 years old.
Congratulations to Teresa Herriage, DNP, APRN, CPHON, who has accepted the position of Vice Chair of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Nursing Discipline. COG is the world’s largest organization devoted exclusively to childhood and adolescent cancer research.
In addition to more than 170 Children’s Minnesota physicians selected by Mpls.St.Paul Magazine as 2022 Top Doctors, several Children’s Minnesota kid experts were featured in an in-depth article highlighting enhancements in delivering outcomes.
Sloan is one of nine students selected as a finalist in her age category for the National Braille Challenge. Very impressive, especially when you consider Sloan’s been living with a brain tumor most of her young life.
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Isadora's story sounds like a movie. A young, aspiring actor begins landing roles on the stage and screen but then gets diagnosed with cancer at age 15. What sounds like a movie, was Isadora’s reality. However, she's back to living her dream after receiving care at Children's Minnesota's Adolescent and Young Adult cancer program.
When kids dream about what they want to be when they grow up, it doesn’t always come true. But for Dr. Jennifer (Jen) Pratt, it did. Her answer to that question was always: a pediatrician. Dr. Pratt is now a pediatric hospitalist at Children’s Minnesota and has been since 2013. A difficult diagnosis at a young age changed her life forever. It ignited in her a passion to care for other kids in an often-unexpected stay at the hospital, just like her when she was a young child.
Jack, who is Minnesota Wild fanatic, got a major boost to his spirit when he got to skate on the ice as the Wild’s flag bearer the same night the team retired Mikko Koivu’s #9 jersey.