“Go Robert!” shouted 12-year-old Isabel Miranda as her older brother sprinted across the finish line. That morning at Summer Scamper , Robert outran 2,019 other racers to take third place in the 5k...
This summer Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, (pictured above) became the new Adalyn Jay Physician-In-Chief at Packard Children's and the chair of pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. She...
After six years of being deprived of his hearing, we're so thrilled to report that 9-year-old Joshua of Morgan Hill has his hearing back! Many patients can be treated with in-ear hearing aids, but...
Peeking inside the expanding Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Ever since I started my job in 2008, I’ve been hearing about the huge expansion of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford that is slated to open in 2017. First it was an abstract idea, then a...
Shoreline Bill’s Golf Marathon raises $7K for the Heart Center
Bill Mykytka and his wife, Megan, were home watching TV one night, when they saw a story on Dateline NBC featuring the Bingham family from Haines, Oregon. Three of the five Bingham children were...
Helping the ‘good guys’: Silicon Valley family sees connections between IT network security and medicine
Sichao Wang’s professional passion is IT security—as he says, “keeping the bad actors out and making sure the good information stays in and is not vulnerable.” A senior principal product manager at...
