One Day. Typical. Amazing. Children’s Medical Center

2008 Annual Report ocpueoedyi h ieo hlrns ooeke htt expect. to what knew one no Children’s, of 19 life Nov. the out in set day photographers compassion, one of professional capture 15 moments to When stories, countless patient innovation. of and and hundreds precision in encounters results human of Center Medical thousands Children’s at hours 24 Just 5:50 a.m. On the cover: Some patients are airlifted Above: The illuminated red balloon is a by the Children’s helicopter to the roof- beacon of hope in the early morning sky. top heliport. Others are transported by It’s the people behind the balloon who the Children’s jet or ambulance. And give the hope.Their care takes many many are brought here by personal or hands and hearts: physicians, nurses and public transportation. No matter how researchers; child life specialists, transla- they arrive, Children’s is ready to take on tors and chaplains; IT experts, food the challenges each patient brings — any service workers and cleaning crews, to time, any day. Photo by Louis Curtis name only a few. Whatever their roles, each day brings an opportunity to make a meaningful difference. Photo by Louis Curtis m. 6:02 a.m. 5:59 a.

Staff members ready a marker board Charity Bempong of Food Services moves showing the list of patients scheduled for trays in the hospital kitchen — already surgery in the main hospital. Today, 95 preparing for the lunch rush. With 58 patients will undergo surgical procedures menus for special diets, including gluten- in one of the hospital’s operating rooms free, Children’s ensures each patient — 58 at the Dallas main campus, 23 at the receives a meal tailored to his or her adjacent Dallas Pavilion Surgery Center (a nutritional needs. Photo by Amber Gober day surgery center) and 14 at Children’s Medical Center Legacy in Plano, Texas. Photo by Kim Ritzenthaler

2 6:25 a.m. 6:17 a.m. 6:10 a.m.

Kayla Jackson, a patient access represen- Henry Taylor takes pride in his job of Nurses Emily Wren, center, and Andrea tative at the Dallas Pavilion Surgery keeping the Purple Park garage clean. Torzone discuss a patient’s treatment Center, attaches an ID bracelet to John Photo by Louis Curtis while Molly Hodges, foreground, and Long’s wrist. The 13-year-old football Liaqat Khan, background, tend to their player from Maypearl, Texas, will have duties in the cardiovascular intensive care laser surgery to remove the pink birth- unit. The cardiovascular ICU is near mark on his cheek. Photo by Jeremy Harris capacity today; 14 of 16 beds are full. Photo by Melanie Burford

3 6:35 a.m. 6:25 a.m. 6:34 a.m.

The early shift signs on. Employees swipe At daybreak, construction workers head When time is of the essence, belongings their badges and pull into the Purple Park to their posts at the new tower and front sometimes are left astray in the men’s garage one after the other wearing a mix entrance going up at the hospital. When locker room at the Pavilion Surgery of scrubs, lab coats and business attire. complete, the 10-story, 398,000-square- Center, where clinicians change in and out Children’s employs 5,100 people. Photo by foot tower will house The Heart Center of their scrubs and store their street Louis Curtis (which includes the Annette Simmons clothes and personal items. Photo by Heart Hospital) and expanded surgical, Jeremy Harris cancer, intensive care and neonatal units. Photo by Louis Curtis

4 6:49 a.m. 7:02 a.m.

Zachary Bancook, 2, gets a kiss from his Dr. Everett Moody takes a look at 4-year- mother, Courtney Bancook, in the pre- old Jacqueline Campuzano’s eyes, while operative assessment area of the main her dad, Jose Campuzano, keeps her hospital. The Mineola, Texas, boy will company. Dr. Moody, an ophthalmologist, have multiple operations today. Surgeons helps calm anxious patients by bringing will perform a circumcision, clean the them care packages stuffed with a hat, area around his g-tube and insert tubes in dark sunglasses, a cool pack and a toy. his ears. Read more about Zachary on The sunglasses protect patients’ eyes page 14. Photo by Kim Ritzenthaler after surgery, while the cool pack helps reduce post-operative swelling. The toy is just for fun. Photo by Jeremy Harris

5 m. 7:17 a.m. 7:03 a. 7:03 a.m.

Tom Vargo, an officer with the Parkland Anthony Massey dozes off on a scale in A new day begins. Employees are Memorial Hospital Police Department, the surgical holding area. Massey had reminded with a banner that highlights stops traffic and directs visitors and been at Children’s all night and was the reason they come to work every day employees to the parking lots and garages waiting for his daughter to go into — to be the one to make life better for near the Dallas Ambulatory Care Pavilion surgery. Photo by Kim Ritzenthaler children. Photo by Louis Curtis at Children’s. Photo by Louis Curtis

6 7:18 a.m. 7:40 a.m.

Roxi Sherman, 3, waits in her bed before David Biggerstaff, vice president and surgery — wearing her favorite cupcake Children’s Legacy administrator, and Tina pajama bottoms. Dr. Jay Burns, a plastic Styles, center, director in Development, and craniofacial surgeon, will use a pulse listen to Amanda Greenberg, accountant dye laser and a yag laser to remove the in Financial Services, as she asks a vascular defect on Roxi’s lip and chin. question at Pulse Check. Members of the Photo by Jeremy Harris hospital’s Senior Leadership Team host Pulse Check three times a month so employees can ask questions and raise issues that are important to them and their co-workers. Photo by Juan Pulido

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Dr. Jay Roden cauterizes 2-year-old Zachary Bancook’s g-tube in one of the first surgeries of the day. See Zachary’s story on page 14. Photo by Kim Ritzenthaler

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Medical staff and other clinicians pack From left, Ron Gorney, physician assistant Luke Vance, 6, from Wylie, Texas, focuses Moore Auditorium for Pediatric Grand and cardiac perfusionist, and operating on his breakfast while in an observation Rounds. Community dentist Bob Morgan, room nurse Barbara McRee give each room in the Charles E. and Sarah M. Seay D.D.S., will speak about treatment and other a little moral support for what is Emergency Department. Luke fell on the referral guidelines for dental trauma about to be an intense day on the job. playground at school and developed a pediatric patients. Photo by Amber Gober The two walk arm-in-arm as they head to staph infection through a cut in his elbow the OR for Camila Bojorquez’s heart a week later. After 2½ days of treatment surgery. See Camila’s story on page 28. at the hospital, the staph infection Photo by Melanie Burford resolved and Luke was back in action. Photo by Louis Curtis

9 m. 8:48 a.m. 8:18 a. 8:19 a.m.

Baovy Pham, senior technologist in the Heart surgeon Dr. Kristine Guleserian, Dr. Serena Wang extracts a cataract from Lab, performs a manual dilution to foreground center, discusses patient cases a patient’s eye. Photo by Kim Ritzenthaler confirm an abnormal result from a with cardiac fellows and nurses during Hematology-Oncology patient. Photo by morning rounds in the cardiovascular Juan Pulido intensive care unit. Photo by Melanie Burford

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Arturo Zapien cradles his 6-month-old Carrie Ellison, a physical therapist, Davion Sutton, waking up from son and namesake after a long night in the steadies Jose Gonzalez on his new anesthesia, gets a popsicle in the step- Seay Emergency Department. The baby therapeutic tricycle in the PT gym. The down room, where patients are reunited had not been feeding. “I know they’re tricycle is a donation from the Irving with their families after surgery at the very tired and very anxious,” said Dr. Chapter of the National American Pavilion Surgery Center. Nurses ensure Beatrix Chandra Bansai, who examined Business Clubs. Photo by Amber Gober that patients are hydrated by giving them the child. Photo by Louis Curtis juice or popsicles, and that they are not in any pain. Davion’s mom, Tenia, listens to a nurse’s instructions about post-surgical care before taking him home. Photo by Jeremy Harris

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The state-of-the-art Access Center Angel David Ibarra colors a picture of centralizes staff, technology and improved dinosaurs while he’s waiting for surgery. work processes, enabling community He will have a cyst removed from his physicians to experience a seamless face. Photo by Allison V. Smith admission process to arrange inpatient and emergency services, as well as medical transport for patients. Photo by Erin Blinn

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A cast removal brings welcome relief for Mayra Galaviz gazes out the window at Drayk Taylor, 2, can’t keep his eyes off 8-year-old Kenshawnna Reed, who is Starbucks while she waits for her son’s the Backyardigans on TV as he eats ready to be on the move again. Photo by radiology appointment to conclude. Some breakfast. Drayk just finished his three- Scott Lewis parents, like Mayra, opt for a cup of hot week treatment for Acute Myeloid coffee and a view from the Skybridge Leukemia. Today’s visit is for treatment of rather than one of the more traditional fever and a low white blood cell count, waiting rooms at Children’s. Photo by frequent symptoms for children with Richard Sharum leukemia. Photo by Richard Sharum

13 Superman Returns

Zachary Bancook has been to Children’s before. The 2-year-old spent

the first seven months of his life on a ventilator in the hospital’s

neonatal intensive care unit. He had aspirated meconium during birth, 6:50 a.m.

which caused a cascade of health problems. Because he was on a

ventilator, he could not eat by mouth and has been fed by a g-tube

since he was born. His parents, Courtney and David Bancook, and

sister Abigail, brought him to Children’s today for several surgical 7:09 a.m.

procedures. Zachary had tubes put in his ears to alleviate constant ear

infections. He had a growth removed from around his tracheotomy

tube and was circumcised. He had the area around his g-tube cleaned.

Wearing super hero pajamas his grandmother bought to help him

through surgery, Zachary checked in before 7 a.m. By noon, the little

Superman was on his way home. Photos by Kim Ritzenthaler 8:12 a.m. 9:39 a.m. 12:01 p.m.

14 m. 7:03 a. 15 9:44 a.m.

Dr. James Amatruda of the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s, observes the row of zebra fish in his lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he is a faculty member. He is working to understand cancer at a molecular level. His focus is on defining novel cancer genes and understanding the development of biological tumors to improve treat- ments for childhood cancer. Photo by Allison V. Smith

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Five-year-old Dylan Smith from Arkansas A team of doctors and nurses convene in runs off some energy on the Children’s the Seay Emergency Department. They playground before he is admitted to the are caring for 5-year-old Kihla Robinson in hospital. Tomorrow, he will have his room 2. Kihla has Rett’s Syndrome, a bladder enlarged and one of his kidneys neuro-developmental disorder. She had a removed. Photo by Erin Blinn seizure at school this morning. In room 3 is 13-year-old Kathryn Higgins, who has supraventricular tachycardia (rapid heart rhythm). She became dizzy and had trouble breathing during gym class. Photo by Louis Curtis

17 m. 9:50 a. 9:53 a.m. 9:53 a.m.

At UT Southwestern University Hospital Jose Hernandez carries his son, Jesus Amari Wyatt gets a popsicle as he wakes — St. Paul in Dallas, new mother Amanda Hernandez, down the hall for an up after having caps put on his teeth at Rosales touches her 1-day-old son, echocardiogram. The 6-month-old baby the Dallas Pavilion Surgery Center. Armando Mendoza. Lee Cavins, an EMT from Marshall, Texas, soon will have a Amari’s grandmother, Lisa Wyatt, stood on the Children’s Transport Services procedure to correct a ventricular septal by his bed in the surgery step-down room team, will drive Armando in an ambulance defect of his heart. Photo by Melanie as Amari roused from anesthesia. The to the neonatal intensive care unit at Burford Wyatts are relatively new to the Dallas Children’s. The infant will be treated for area. They survived Hurricane Katrina and hydrocephaly (buildup of cerebrospinal moved to Mesquite, Texas, once they had fluid on the brain). Photo by Juan Pulido transportation to leave New Orleans. Photo by Jeremy Harris

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Jesus Hernandez undergoes an Employee health nurse Jenney Saxton files Kathryn Higgins, 13, of Garland, Texas, echocardiogram to monitor his heart an employee’s chart. The Occupational undergoes testing in the Seay Emergency condition. Photo by Melanie Burford Health and Wellness department at Department for her symptoms — a rapid Children’s houses thousands of employee heart rate, dizziness and labored health charts. Photo by Erin Blinn breathing. Caregivers place leads on her chest to monitor her heart. Photo by Louis Curtis

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The Children’s Transport Services team, Karla Perla, 17, has relapsed acute Nurse Jeff Leftin keeps an eye on an including respiratory therapist Kelley Cole lymphoblastic leukemia and received a 8-month-old baby in the Seay Emergency and EMT Lee Cavins, wheel 1-day-old bone marrow transplant from a non- Department who is being treated with a Armando Mendoza from the Children’s related donor match 80 days ago. She has body cast for a fractured femur. Leftin is a ambulance into the hospital. The crew had serious complications and has been traveling nurse who goes from one transported Armando from the nearby undergoing intensive physical therapy. hospital to another based on staffing facility, where he was born, to Children’s. Photo by Richard Sharum needs and his career goals. Photo by Armando has hydrocephaly, and later, Dr. Louis Curtis Bradley Weprin will insert a shunt to drain fluid from the baby’s brain. Photo by Juan Pulido

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Christopher J. Durovich, right, president Ten-year-old Teufelhunden “Tuf” Priddy, Two-year-old Abigail Luis reads books in and chief executive officer of Children’s, from Garland, Texas, has “been throwing the Low Birth Weight Clinic while her meets with Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky, up worse than I’ve ever seen,” said mom, Cecilia Vega, goes over Abigail’s president of UT Southwestern, to discuss Serena Priddy, his mom. Tuf had been asthma and diaper rash treatment with a variety of business topics. Children’s is vomiting for four days before his mom Sally Adams, pediatric nurse practitioner. the primary pediatric teaching and clinical brought him to the Seay Emergency Abigail was born at 31 weeks gestation research hospital for UT Southwestern. Department. He spent a week at and weighed 2 pounds, 9.9 ounces. She Together, the institutions recruit top Children’s being treated for fever, now weighs 28 pounds, 9.6 ounces. medical minds, pursue cures for diseases vomiting and diarrhea while waiting for Adams provides preventive medicine and and train future generations of pediatric the infection in his stomach to run its health education for patients like Abigail. subspecialists. Photo by Jill Johnson course. Photo by Louis Curtis Photo by Scott Lewis

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A hand-written note illustrates the close Abigail Luis, 2 years old, blows bubbles bond child life specialists develop with with child life specialist Alinda Shelley their patients. Photo by Erin Blinn in the Low Birth Weight Clinic area. Photo by Scott Lewis

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Valet services attendant Eugene Vessels Potential job candidates stand in line to Neurosurgeon Dr. Frederick Sklar drives a patient family — Alejandra receive information about Children’s from explores a large tumor on the brain of a Sanchez (left), 11, her little brother, Jan hospital employees hosting a booth at The 12-month-old patient. The child’s parents Aaron Sanchez, 3, and their mother Dallas Morning News Nursing and Allied were very emotional about today’s Maricella Jasso — in a golf cart from the Health Career Fair at Dallas Market surgery and its outcome. The surgical visitor parking lot to the Dallas Center. Recruiting nurses in the Dallas team will find out within the hour — Ambulatory Care Pavilion. Jan Aaron is market is highly competitive. Photo by while still in the OR — if the tumor is headed to a consultation appointment for Jill Johnson malignant. See page 31 for more on this an eye surgery he is scheduled to undergo patient. Photo by Kim Ritzenthaler in December. Photo by Jeremy Harris

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Three medical staff members are on their Two-year-old Kristy Anaya plays quietly in way to the main hospital from the a hospital playroom with her dad, Eleazar adjacent Dallas Ambulatory Care Pavilion. Anaya. Time for undirected play is Physicians move around the spacious important for hospitalized children, who campus throughout the day caring for may feel a loss of control over what is children admitted to the hospital as well happening to them. Photo by Erin Blinn as those coming in for same-day appointments and procedures. Photo by Jill Johnson

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Dr. Jeannie Kwon, background, a Bassil M. Kublaoui, M.D., Ph.D., an radiologist at Children’s, and Dr. Caroline endocrinologist at Children’s, compares Yang, a resident in Radiology at Children’s, mice in his lab at UT Southwestern, review scans in the reading room. They where he is a faculty member. Dr. are looking at an ultrasound of the Kublaoui studies how the brain regulates abdomen and a frontal radiograph of the eating behavior and controls energy bal- chest and abdomen. Photo by Louis Curtis ance. His research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Photo by Allison V. Smith

25 m. 11:18 a.m. 11:15 a. 11:16 a.m.

Maddie Harrison holds her 1-year-old son, Welcome signs in the Dallas Ambulatory Jessica Espinoza, a cashier at the gift shop Keegan, before he is sedated for a CT Care Pavilion greet patients and their in the Dallas Ambulatory Care Pavilion, scan. Keegan is hospitalized for treatment families in 31 languages. Hundreds of arranges Skittles on a shelf of candy. A of an infection. But this isn’t Keegan’s first patients come to the Pavilion every day purchase of candy, a toy or a book from trip to Children’s. On Sept. 19, 2007, he for appointments with pediatric the gift shop can be just the thing to put a underwent the 99th heart transplant specialists. Photo by Jeremy Harris child’s mind at ease about a doctor visit. performed at Children’s. Weighing just Photo by Jeremy Harris more than 5 pounds and only 1 week old, Keegan was the smallest and youngest in Texas ever to receive a heart transplant. Photo by Louis Curtis

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Three-year-old Natali Maui from Grand Autumn Williams, 8 weeks old, wakes up Carol Miller, medical librarian, reads with Prairie, Texas, was just released from the from a cat nap. Lacy Williams’ baby was Julissa Palacia, 1, and Samuel Robinson, 9, hospital, but has asked to stop by the diagnosed before birth with spina bifida, in the Family Resource Center in the hospital playroom to paint one last picture and she traveled from Midland, Texas, to Dallas Ambulatory Care Pavilion. Samuel before going home. Photo by Erin Blinn deliver Autumn in Dallas. Autumn has was at Children’s for blood tests been at Children’s since she was 2 hours necessary for a blood transfusion the old and has undergone multiple surgeries. following day. Julissa and her mother came Williams says she hopes the two will be with Samuel and his mother for the visit. home for Christmas. Photo by Scott Lewis Photo by Jeremy Harris

27 Camila’s Miracle

Camila Bojorquez — a tiny baby in need of a big miracle. The 7-week-

old from Oklahoma City was referred to Children’s and arrived with

severe anemia and seizure activity, results of PHACE syndrome. 8:06 a.m.

Camila’s rare condition causes a number of problems, among them a

defective heart. Dr. Kristine Guleserian, a cardiac surgeon at

Children’s, prepared Camila’s parents early in the day. They were

shocked to learn that their daughter needed an aortic arch

reconstruction — an uncommon procedure, but one that the team in

The Heart Center at Children’s has performed many times successfully.

As Camila’s parents waited during the surgery, not a minute went by 8:53 a.m.

unnoticed. After five hours, Dr. Guleserian emerged victorious,

Camila’s mended heart beating perfectly. The small scar on Camila’s

chest is a reminder of the miracle that gave her a new lease on life.

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Natali Maui, just released from the Dusti Gaither, 5, and her mom, Michelle hospital and feeling much better, is Gaither, are at Children’s today for an headed home with her family to Grand infusion treatment because Dusti’s blood Prairie. Photo by Erin Blinn counts were dropping. Dusti was diagnosed with leukemia on Sept. 5, 2008. They challenge each other in games on the Nintendo Wii system to pass the time. Photo by Richard Sharum

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Dr. Arthur Weinberg, a pathologist, A construction worker steadies himself on Jose Moya, 12, shoots pool in the Aikman center, and Dr. Michael Spears, a a ladder as he works on the eighth floor Endzone — a haven where patients can pathology resident, far left, let Dr. of the new tower going up on the Dallas momentarily escape medical treatment. Frederick Sklar, chief of Neurosurgery, campus. Photo by Juan Pulido Today, Jose is hospitalized for treatment know that the patient’s tumor is indeed of his cystic fibrosis, an inherited, chronic malignant. A tissue sample had been sent disease that affects the lungs and digestive to the lab earlier in the surgery, and system. Over the next few months, Jose’s pathologists have come to the OR to condition continued to worsen and he was discuss the results with Dr. Sklar while on the waiting list for a double lung surgery is still under way. Photo by transplant when he died on March 11. Kim Ritzenthaler Photo by Erin Blinn

31 m. 11:51 a.m. 11:37 a. 11:42 a.m.

John Bemelmans Marciano, author and A Dallas Cowboys football fan and his Speaking to attendees of a Diabetes 101 illustrator of the newest book in the mom grab a bite to eat in The Dining Car class, registered dietitian Marcia Madeline series, “Madeline and the Cats where more than 2,000 people eat lunch Mackenzie demonstrates the differences of Rome,” talks with Susan Holman, left, every day. Photo by Amber Gober between insulin-delivery systems. The and patient families in the Krissi Holman class is for parents, school nurses and Family Resource Library and Children’s other caretakers of children who have Collection. Marciano, a special visitor to been recently diagnosed with type I the hospital, had just finished reading to diabetes. Patient and parent education is patients in the library named in honor of vital to ensuring the best possible Holman’s daughter who was cared for at outcomes for children with diabetes. Children’s. Photo by Amber Gober Photo by Jill Johnson

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Employees line up to pay at the Construction workers paint a wall in the Tumbleweed Café, a popular breakfast lobby of the new tower at the Dallas and lunch spot for professional and campus. Every day more than 100 outpatient care employees working in the workers provide 24-hour coverage for the Dallas Ambulatory Care Pavilion. Evelyn project. Photo by Juan Pulido Butler, at the cash register, has a reputation for excellent customer service, even during peak lunch rush. Photo by Jill Johnson

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Brett Parham, 4, watches one of the In The Heart Center, Dr. Fran Morriss, UT Southwestern pediatric residents eat largest train displays in the country as right, and nurse Isa Carrillo prep Lucero lunch during their daily conference in The whistling trains chug by in the hospital Hernandez, 11, for a transesophogeal Doctors Dining Room at Children’s. Even lobby of the Dallas campus. Brett had just echocardiogram in the Pogue lunch is used as a time for teaching celebrated Thanksgiving with his Catheterization Lab. A doctor will pass a residents – physicians give lectures on a classmates at First Baptist Preschool in specialized probe into Lucero’s esophagus variety of topics. Photo by Amber Gober Wylie, Texas, and was at Children’s to visit to assess her heart’s function. Photo by his cousin, who was in the hospital. Photo Melanie Burford by Kim Ritzenthaler

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Foreground, nurse Heidi Roan watches Joseph Herrera, 8, a patient in the Nurse Denise Cole keeps an eye on a the monitors with cardiologist Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, plays the Wii in patient in the post-anesthesia care unit. Dr. Thomas Zellers from the viewing the C6 Playroom. The playroom is In the PACU, children who just came out room of the Pogue Catheterization equipped with the same technology as his of the operating room are closely Lab as 11-year-old Lucero Hernandez patient room in the EMU so that monitored as the anesthesia wears off. undergoes a transesophogeal technicians can effectively monitor him Photo by Louis Curtis echocardiogram. even when he is away from the unit. Photo by Melanie Burford Photo by Richard Sharum

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Dr. Susan Arnold, a neurologist, does Physician liaison Brad Sullivan, right, Nancy Belford, right, embraces nurse cognitive exercises with patient Arianna discusses Radiology services at Children’s Wendy Yeater, clinical manager for the Banda, 8, in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit. Medical Center Legacy with Dr. Allan Neurosurgery OR team, at Belford’s Photo by Richard Sharum DeVillaneuve, a Plano pediatrician. lunchtime retirement party in the Sullivan makes rounds to pediatricians’ employee break room. For 28 years, offices in Dallas, Plano and Frisco, Texas, Belford served as a nurse in the OR. Her on a regular basis to update doctors on goodbye is bittersweet. Photo by Kim the services available at Children’s Legacy, Ritzenthaler which opened in 2008 in Plano. Photo by Lara Solt

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Erin Jesionek, an audiologist, enters an Doctors meet at Starbucks to go over Music therapist Lisa Jones strums a guitar audiology exam room. Audiology rooms treatment protocols. Starbucks is located while 9-year-old cancer patient Jayla are intentionally small; however, the small on a skybridge connected to the main Cooper taps a drum. Jayla recently had a spaces sometimes make patients hospital and its adjacent buildings and bone marrow transplant at Children’s. uncomfortable, and the aquarium-themed parking garages. The coffee shop often is After she went home, she developed a mural painted on the walls helps ease used as a meeting place for employees fever and had to return to the hospital. patients’ anxieties. Photo by Jill Johnson and medical staff. Photo by Juan Pulido Jones is one of three music therapists on staff at Children’s. Jayla smiles every time she sees that Jones is coming to her room with instruments. Photo by Erin Blinn

37 1:19 p.m. 1:18 p.m. 1:17 p.m.

Nurses evaluate patients in the triage area Gavin Pearce, 2, identifies objects as Wendy Ochoa, 12, undergoes a lumbar of the Seay Emergency Department for Xiaowei Zhang, a specialist in orthoptics, puncture. Wendy learned one year ago severity of symptoms and conditions. tracks his eye movements. “There’s a that she has relapsed acute lymphoblastic Patients who arrive in the ED with non- boat, an elephant, a car…” he tells her. leukemia. Anesthesiologist Dr. Alan Far- emergent illnesses, such as colds and flu, Zhang can tell that the boy’s recent eye row-Gillespie sedates Wendy as Dr. Paul are transferred to First Care, an urgent surgery (performed by Dr. Serena Wang at Harker-Murray performs the procedure. care center operated within the hospital Children’s) was successful. Using sedation for lumbar punctures has 24 hours a day. Photo by Louis Curtis Photo by Scott Lewis improved care: Patients are unaware of the procedure, safety is enhanced and children wake up quickly without lingering drowsiness. Photo by Richard Sharum

38 1:31 p.m. 1:32 p.m.

Video games keep 7-year-old Anthony Michael Cummings, a supply chain Bell occupied as he recovers. Surgeons technician in Materiels Management, amputated his leg from the knee down unloads medical supplies. Cummings after it was run over by a train. A child life handles internal transportation of supplies specialist has been working with Anthony and equipment, taking them from the every day since the surgery to help him loading dock to the customer. This job understand the severity of the accident. takes stamina — Cummings walks more Photo by Erin Blinn than 10 miles daily as he delivers 75-150 packages. Photo by Louis Curtis

39 m. 1:37 p.m. 1:36 p. 1:36 p.m.

Twelve-year-old Fernando Salas opens Barry Gabbert, a sonographer in The Antonio Howard-Askew is prepped for wide for X-rays at his dental appointment. Heart Center, performs a fetal echocar- surgery on his spine only one day after his Working on Fernando are dental hygienist diogram on Anna Lopez. In 2008, more birth. Photo by Kim Ritzenthaler Kathy Park, left, and dental assistant ex- than 350 expectant moms underwent fetal tern Inez Bernal. Photo by Allison V. Smith echocardiograms at Children’s. Photo by Melanie Burford

40 1:40 p.m. 1:48 p.m. 1:51 p.m.

The mailroom is buzzing with activity as Nancy Ybarra, a pharmacy technician, fills Jorge Gutierrez, 11, isn’t squeamish at the mail comes in throughout the day. Every orders. Specialized pharmacists work in sight of blood. In fact, he watches closely month approximately 26,000 pieces of areas such as the Seay Emergency as he gets his blood drawn at the Dallas mail stream in, and more than 30,000 Department, the Center for Cancer and Ambulatory Care Pavilion. Photo by Juan pieces are mailed out. Photo by Louis Curtis Blood Disorders and the cardiovascular Pulido intensive care unit. Photo by Daniel Driensky

41 2:05 p.m. 2:03 p.m.

“Dr. Monday” balances a hat on his nose Cardiac surgeons Dr. Kristine Guleserian as he sets out on a mission to prescribe and Dr. Joseph Forbess begin the laughter and to put smiles on patients’ procedure to repair Camila Bojorquez’s faces. He is one of eight professionally tiny, fragile heart. Read more of Camila’s trained clowns in the Funnyatrics Clown story on page 28. Photo by Melanie Burford Program at Children’s. Like many programs at the hospital, Funnyatrics is made possible through generous gifts from hospital supporters. Photo by Erin Blinn

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A contract worker cleans the windows on Nikki Wintters rubs the shoulders of her the ceiling in the lobby area of the main son,15-year-old Chris Wahl. Chris has hospital. Most windows at the hospital are Marfan syndrome, a genetic condition that cleaned monthly. Larger projects are done affects the body’s connective tissues. on a quarterly basis. Photo by Jeremy Harris Surgeons at Children’s recently inserted a rod into Chris’s chest to help increase his lung capacity. Photo by Amber Gober

43 Traumatic Times

Julian Duncan was an adventurous kid who loved life. The 12-year-

old’s zeal for exploration, however, ended in a parent’s worst

nightmare. Walking home from school, Julian lost his balance while

crossing a railroad trestle, falling 30 feet to the concrete below. He

was air lifted to Children’s, a Level I Trauma Center, where a highly

specialized, multidisciplinary team assessed and treated his injuries. 5:24 p.m.

The severity of Julian’s head trauma made him a candidate for a

hypothermia trial, which uses a cooling blanket to improve outcomes

for such patients. John Duncan, Julian’s dad, found strength through

prayer with a chaplain at Children’s as caregivers worked to do all they

could to save the oldest of his five children. The pastor of the family’s 5:29 p.m.

church, Julian’s Sunday school teacher and a Children’s nurse also

prayed over him. In spite of every effort to treat and sustain him, Julian

died eight days later on Thanksgiving Day. Photos by Erin Blinn and David Leeson 5:41 p.m. 9:57 p.m.

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m. 2:29 p.m. 2:19 p.

Alexa Bermudez, 3, and her sister, Patient Kyle Velazquez is being fitted for Clarissa, 5, from Plano, Texas, look at the an appliance to help correct his bilateral landscape surrounding the model-train cleft lip and palate. The appliance, which display in the lobby at the main hospital. is similar to a retainer, will cover the hole Eight trains and one trolley car travel in Kyle’s palate and will reform his gum, through terrain, with a variety of themed lip and nose in preparation for a future villages placed along the route. The plastic surgery. Photo by Jill Johnson tracks extend more than 1,000 feet. The generosity of the Goddard family makes the train display possible. Photo by Jeremy Harris

4646 2:29 p.m.

From left, anesthesiology fellow Dr. Vedavathy Vallurupalli, anesthesiologist Dr. Paul Sheeran and neurosurgeon Dr. Frederick Sklar, prepare to operate on 1-day-old Antonio Howard-Askew. The team will repair Antonio’s myelomeningocele, a birth defect in which the backbone and spinal canal do not close before birth. Photo by Kim Ritzenthaler

47 2:46 p.m. 2:40 p.m. 2:39 p.m.

After an appointment, dental hygienist During a mock code, employees watch Nine-month-old Colt Wallace rests the Ester Ball knows just what to do to get the results of how they responded to the day after a surgery to correct 3-year-old Evelyn Flores to laugh. Ball, who SIM baby’s pulse and heart rate. The high- craniosynostosis, a deformity of the skull. is backed with 41 years of experience, fidelity simulator creates urgent situations He will undergo another surgery on Nov. spends her free time advocating for oral in real-time, providing an optimum 25 to create eyebrow bones where his health issues and serves as president of training environment. Photo by Scott Lewis forehead protrudes over his eyes. Photo the Texas Dental Hygienists’ Association. by Amber Gober Photo by Allison V. Smith

4848 2:53 p.m. 2:58 p.m.

A student athlete at Garland High School Medical and clinical staff stabilize undergoes an electrocardiogram to test SIMantha during a real-time mock code the electrical activity of her heart as part addressing issues of high-risk and patient of her participation in a research study. safety. The SIM baby, child and adult will Children’s is one of three institutions become the mainstays of a new 3,000- leading a state-wide study to address the square-foot, high-tech simulation center need for a pre-sports screening program in the Dallas Ambulatory Care Pavilion. in Texas. Pediatric cardiologists at The center — the only one of its kind for Children’s are participating in the study to pediatrics in Texas — will house two identify children who may be at risk for training rooms that recreate patient care sudden death episodes. Photo by Lara Solt settings. Photo by Scott Lewis

49 2:59 p.m. 3:11 p.m.

Paul Riley from Biomedical Engineering Pediatric residents meet during a busy day performs preventive maintenance on the in the Crystal Charity Ball Continuity of centrifuge, which is used to separate Care Clinic. The outpatient care area solids from liquids in the lab. Photo by provides comprehensive pediatric primary Juan Pulido care to children without a pediatrician or primary care physician, allowing children to come to one place that has records of the patient’s history and knows the patient. Residents help run the clinic and report to staff physicians. Photo by Erin Blinn

5050 3:36 p.m. 3:42 p.m. 3:32 p.m.

Joe Don Cavender, director of Advanced Betty Mendolia, a Children’s volunteer, Gabriel Cooper, 12, plays Rock Band at the Practice Services, addresses a group of entertains a 16-month-old with toys in a hospital two days after his fourth open- advanced practice nurses and physician patient room. Mendolia, who volunteers heart surgery. Gabriel’s stepfather says assistants in Moore Auditorium. Today’s as a sitter, has been a volunteer at Gabriel wanted the surgery on Monday so meeting topics include improvements to Children’s for five years. The hospital has that he would be well enough to go see the hospital’s electronic systems, more than 650 volunteers who donate Celtic Thunder, a band, play in Dallas on celebrating nurses’ week and an update approximately 150,000 hours annually Friday, Nov. 21. Photo by Scott Lewis on the hospital’s recent site visit by the working in dozens of departments as Magnet designation committee. Photo by sitters, concierges, playroom assistants, Richard Sharum gift shop workers and recovery room helpers. Photo by Amber Gober

51 m. 3:52 p.m. 3:44 p. 3:50 p.m.

Massage therapist Dalia Seda massages Dr. Juan M. Pascual, M.D., Ph.D., an Two days past her due date for delivering Karla Perla’s feet. Karla has received expert in neurometabolic and her second child, Kaprena Wheatman treatment for leukemia at Children’s since neurogenetic disorders, talks to Cameron strokes 22-month-old Jubilee’s head. It’s February 2008. Karla’s father, Alejandro, Cole’s mother, Sarah Cole, and home been an exhausting day for mom and moved the family to Dallas from El healthcare nurse Alicia Medrano about daughter. Jubilee has been in the hospital Salvador 15 months ago to better Cameron’s seizures. Dr. Pascual works in for more than six weeks to receive accommodate Karla’s medical treatment. the research lab and in clinic to learn treatment for Stage 4 neuroblastoma, a Chemotherapy causes peripheral nerve more about the genetic and molecular cancerous tumor that develops in the problems and soreness for Karla, and basis of diseases. His patients, referred adrenal glands or sympathetic nervous massage therapy reduces the soreness. from around the world, typically have rare system. Photo by Richard Sharum Photo by Daniel Driensky or severe conditions. Photo by Jill Johnson

5252 3:52 p.m. 3:58 p.m.

In his lab at UT Southwestern, Dr. Scott Crystal Bell of Shreveport, La., sits with Cameron studies why cells decide to live one of her twin daughters, Ky’Breigh or die. Defects in this process are Anthony, who is nestled against her chest important to understand, because medical (a technique known as Kangaroo Care) in treatments work by telling cells to “turn the neonatal intensive care unit. Ky’Breigh on” the process to die. His work relates and her sister, Kai’Leigh, were born Aug. to the genes of children with leukemia, 23, 2008, in Longview, Texas, more than suggesting that mutations in certain genes three months before their due date. “It’s contribute to the disease by preventing really been a journey,” says Bell, who the programmed cell death of holds each baby for three hours every lymphoblasts. Photo by Allison V. Smith day. Photo by Scott Lewis

53 4:06 p.m. 4:01 p.m.

Vivian Tran holds her daughter, Kayla, 2, Ivett Acosta dresses her son, 7-month-old as she rouses from anesthesia after having Jesus Martinez Acosta, at his follow-up her tonsils removed. Photo by Amber Gober appointment after heart surgery as, clock- wise from left, cardiologist Dr. Claudio Ramaciotti, medical student Abel Moron and nurse Melanie Coursey discuss the baby’s progress. Photo by Melanie Burford

5454 4:18 p.m. 4:21 p.m. 4:30 p.m.

Hospital stays don’t keep 2-year-old Jair Primero, 4, receives instruction from Zamoriet Callahan, 8, plays a bowling Drayk Taylor from his favorite activity. Nancy Beck, physical therapist and clinical game on the Nintendo Wii with Drayk drops the brushes and lets loose, specialist in Physical Medicine and occupational therapist Ashley Gartrell in painting the table, paper and himself Rehabilitation, during a session at the the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with his fingers during time in one of Children’s Specialty Center in Mesquite, gym at the main hospital in Dallas. Ashley the hospital’s playrooms. Photo by Texas. Jair was born with cerebral palsy is working with Zamoriet on expanding Richard Sharum and is progressing well, even riding his his attention span while building his hand- tricycle out the door as his therapist eye coordination. She says Zamoriet has coaches him. Children’s also has specialty come a long way and is in the final stages centers in DeSoto and Irving, Texas. Photo of his treatment. Photo by Jill Johnson by Lara Solt

55 m. 4:32 p. 4:57 p.m. 4:56 p.m.

Marcus Lankford, 6, from Ferris, Texas, Luis Dorantes, 16 months, waddles down Hospital chaplain Charlotte Nicholson holds his arm out for his blood to be the hall. Luis was transferred from a local guides 3-year-old Bryce Wilson through drawn. Lankford is recovering from a liver hospital on Oct.12 for treatment of Godly play. Bryce is recovering after biopsy performed earlier in the day. chronic diarrhea due to enteropathy, a nearly dying from MRSA, a form of staph Photo by Louis Curtis rare autoimmune disease that causes his infection, and Nicholson is inviting him to body to attack his small intestine. Luis enter into an interactive, sacred story receives follow up care from physicians at where he may relate his situation with Children’s Legacy in Plano, which is closer those of similar characters. The Children’s to his home. Photo by Juan Pulido Godly play program was one of the first in the country to be incorporated into patient care. Photo by Daniel Driensky

5656 5:00 p.m. 5:03 p.m. 5:13 p.m.

Lindsay Bickel, a Speech Pathology A team of Trauma and Emergency Cardiac surgeon Dr. Kristine Guleserian student at the University of Texas at Department personnel gather in an exam pulls up an image of Camila Bojorquez’s Dallas, works with 7-year-old Christopher room to watch local news of a school bus arch reconstruction, which she just Martin. Bickel asks Christopher to accident that has happened in Ana, Texas, performed. Read more about Camila on describe the photos, which will help him north of the metroplex. A Code Yellow page 28. Photo by Melanie Burford increase the length of his utterances and (the hospital’s term for an internal or expand his vocabulary. Photo by Jill Johnson external disaster) has been enacted. Later, responders at the scene determine all injuries are minor, and no accident victims are brought to Children’s for treatment. Photo by Juan Pulido

57 m. m. 5:46 p.m. 5:17 p. 5:35 p.

An infant rests under special lights T.C. Mahupete and his son, Dominic, Shannon Williams, clinical manager for designed to reduce increased bilirubin snooze in the hallway outside of the the pediatric intensive care unit, answers levels. The blue lights help reverse the cardiovascular intensive care unit where a call about a patient’s condition. It is jaundice, or yellowish discoloration of Dominic’s cousin, Megan Mahuwe, hectic in the pediatric ICU today and the skin. Photo by Louis Curtis recovers from heart surgery. Photo by phones are ringing off the hook. Every Daniel Driensky bed is full. Every nurse is handling a maximum number of patients. Photo by Daniel Driensky

5858 5:46 p.m. 6:13 p.m. 6:23 p.m.

Nine-year-olds Wynton Galmon, center, Maryam Abusaad, 10, has dinner with her Lisa Cooper leans over to watch her and DeMorrian Chambers, left, do a mother, Sally Zoubi, at the inpatient daughter, Jayla Cooper, 9, carefully open “raise the roof” exercise — choreographed Psychiatric unit. Maryam came to the the IV line on a doll. Child life specialists to loud, upbeat music — as part of the hospital in August for treatment of an provide medical play to help patients Dean Foods LEAN (Lifestyle Exercise And eating disorder. Maryam’s condition has understand and feel more comfortable Nutrition) Families program. The 12- improved, and she’s been spending nights with their medical equipment and week course teaches children at risk for at home again. Zoubi said she takes procedures. Photo by Scott Lewis obesity how to make healthy food choices comfort in her daughter’s improvement: and improve physical fitness. Photo by “I came by her room; she was taking off Jill Johnson her pajamas. I saw her back, and I couldn’t see any ribs.” Photo by Louis Curtis

59 Children’s Legacy 8:08 a.m.

Hospitals typically aren’t known for serene environments. But serenity

is what 7-year-old Hannah Grisham discovered when she came in for

an MRI at Children’s Medical Center Legacy in Plano, Texas. The

Philips Ambient Environment, a system of fiber optic lights, sound and

images, are projected into the MRI room at Children’s, only the third

dedicated pediatric site in the world to have the system. Hannah, from

Princeton, Texas, picked pink clouds from the menu of graphics 10:55 a.m. because they made her feel “relaxed.” Just like Children’s Dallas,

every detail at Children’s Legacy is designed with children in mind. The

most important similarity is the world-class, specialized healthcare

Children’s Legacy provides every day to children north of Dallas. With

a celebration in September to mark its completion, the hospital 11:22 a.m. opened with full-scale inpatient, outpatient, emergency, surgical and

diagnostic services. Photos by Lara Solt 11:49 a.m. 1:35 p.m.

60 m. 11:44 a.

m. 7:37 p.m. 6:58 p. 7:34 p.m.

Anthony Bell, 7, plays a video game with Mohammad Ali Hashemi of Ennis, Texas, Known as Zippi, the hospital’s automated his cousins while a Fox 4 News crew prays for his baby girl in the Beatrice pharmacy delivery system dispenses interviews and films them. Recovering Menne Haggerty Chapel at Children’s. medications into containers for from a partial leg amputation, Anthony Asiyeh, 2½ months old, is in critical tomorrow’s delivery. Zippi runs twice has been followed by the news media condition after undergoing heart valve- each day, filling 500 to 700 doses of since he was run over by a train. After his replacement surgery. Asiyeh has a twin medications, which allows pharmacists release from the hospital, he returned to sister, Aliyeh, and five other siblings. time to focus on patient consultations. school where child life specialists from Photo by Louis Curtis Photo by Daniel Driensky Children’s counseled his classmates to help them understand his injury, surgery and physical changes. Photo by Juan Pulido

6262 8:15 p.m. 9:14 p.m. 9:30 p.m.

Rowlett, Texas, teen Alex Modesitt Nurse Denise McEwin hangs an IV Mario Murillo, 3½ months, smiles at his researches colleges on his laptop. Because nutrition bag for 18-year-old Amayrani mother, Veronica Murillo, on the C12 of cancer treatments that began in Cutz. At age 5, physicians at Children’s inpatient unit. Mario was admitted to August, Alex has missed most of his senior diagnosed Amayrani with blue rubber bleb Children’s in October and diagnosed with year at school, but he is on track to nevus syndrome — a rare condition that spinal muscular atrophy, a motor neuron attend college in fall 2009. Photo by affects the skin and internal organs. Only disease that affects voluntary muscles Daniel Driensky a few hundred cases of this syndrome used for activities such as crawling, have been diagnosed worldwide. Photo by walking, head and neck control and Daniel Driensky swallowing. Photo by Louis Curtis

63 m. 9:44 p.m. 9:40 p.

Respiratory care practitioner T.J. Oshun Security officer Bryson Triggs performs carefully pats the back of a tiny patient in routine lock checks on the C12 inpatient an effort to loosen the secretions in her floor. Photo by Louis Curtis lungs. Photo by Louis Curtis

6464 10:28 p.m. 10:32 p.m. 10:29 p.m.

With more than 150 patient visits each A young patient leaves a “Do not disturb” Supply chain technician Bobby Daniels of night, the Emergency Department is a hub note on the door. Photo by David Leeson Materiels Management restocks Omnicells of constant activity. From left, Dr. Philip on floor B2. Omnicells are secure cabinets Ewing adds information to a patient’s stocked with medications, equipment and chart. Dr. Mercedes Uribe, pediatric supplies used for patient care. Photo by emergency medicine fellow, leans in to Louis Curtis talk to Dr. Audra McCreight about the patient in Asthma Bay E. Dr. Craig Huang and Dr. Raegan Wetzel look at X-rays of a patient who had been in an early-evening car accident. Photo by Mei-Chun Jau

65 m. 10:53 p.m. 10:45 p. 10:45 p.m.

Parking attendant Terry Jefferson assists Every time 12-year-old Madeline Burke Michelle Smith, a Children’s Transport late-night visitors as they leave the spends the night at the hospital, she Services nurse, wraps Prestyn Armendariz garage. Photo by Louis Curtis passes the time by playing King’s Corners in a cocoon of blankets in preparation for with her mom, Mary Burke. Madeline was his trip from Odessa Regional Medical diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at Center to the Midland International Children’s, and she is in for a routine visit Airport in West Texas. From Midland, the to receive IV antibiotics for two weeks. team will transport Prestyn via the Photo by David Leeson Children’s jet to Dallas, where he will be treated for multiple heart defects. Photo by Juan Pulido

6666 11:27 p.m. 11:35 p.m.

On the Dallas campus, security officer Transport Services staff from Children’s Jerrie Smith patrols the garages and keeps transfer 3-month-old Prestyn Armendariz her eye out for anything out of the to the Children’s jet for his transport to ordinary and for visitors who need Dallas. Prestyn’s parents will make the assistance. Smith is strategic about her 330-mile drive from Odessa, Texas, to patrol duty — sometimes she exits a Children’s by car. Photo by Juan Pulido garage and goes right back into the same one so people can’t predict her timing. Photo by David Leeson

67 m. 11:51 p.m. 11:43 p. 11:45 p.m.

Maria Jalomo comforts her 3½-month-old Grady Pierce, a health unit coordinator in Nancy Proctor, a housekeeping team daughter Kayla Ordonez, who has flu-like the Seay Emergency Department, leader, prepares for a night on her feet by symptoms. Kayla is the last patient of the celebrates the arrival of his shift relief. grabbing a quick meal in The Dining Car. day at the Referral Care Center, which Pierce says the day was especially tense Nightshift housekeeping teams do routine provides urgent care to more than 6,000 because the ED was busy and many hospital cleaning of patient and public areas. patients each year and allows for the beds were full. Photo by Mei-Chun Jau Proctor began working at Children’s in continuity of care between the patient 2000. Photo by Louis Curtis and his or her primary physician. Photo by Louis Curtis

6868 12:13 a.m. 12:54 a.m. 1:04 a.m.

Just after midnight, as the date changes to Anesthesiologists Dr. Dan Davis and In the post-anesthesia care unit, Nicolas Nov. 20, 3-year-old Angie Trujillo is resident Dr. Dung Huynh take a popsicle Ivan Garcia Martinez, 2, slowly rouses sedated in the pediatric intensive care break outside the post-anesthesia care from the anesthesia. In overlapping photo, unit where her bleeding liver is being unit after a surgery. Momentarily, they will surgeon Dr. Michael Skinner, center, helps treated. She was rushed to Children’s head back into the OR to administer surgical resident Dr. Lucy Wallace guide a after a TV fell on her at home. Angie’s anesthesia to a patient undergoing scope down Nicolas’ esophagus. Surgical parents have two younger children and emergency surgery for a hernia repair. technologist Gabriel Carrillo, left, have spent every night at the hospital. Photo by Mei-Chun Jau watches the patient as the two doctors “We’re going to be here for a while, but fish out the dime that Nicolas swallowed we can handle it,” said her mom, Yuliana earlier in the night. Photo by Mei-Chun Jau Martinez. Photo by David Leeson

69 m. 1:33 a.m. 1:09 a. 1:28 a.m.

Serenity Stephens, 11 months, sleeps Mary Stephens, Serenity’s grandmother, Seay Emergency Department Nurse peacefully. On Oct. 26, Serenity was the sleeps with a mask on in the patient Monica Fuller was part of the crew who 400th liver transplant recipient at room. “Someone is always here with cleared the ED earlier in the day to make Children’s. Photo by David Leeson Serenity,” Stephens said. Photo by room for patients expected to come to David Leeson Children’s after a school bus accident. The accident victims did not receive serious injuries and were treated at hospitals near the scene. As a Level 1 Trauma Center, Children’s is equipped to handle the most seriously injured patients. Photo by Louis Curtis

7070 1:45 a.m. 1:57 a.m. 2:08 a.m.

Kamita Harris, left, and Miriam McCullar, Eduardo Gandara from Language Access Miriam McCullar checks on patient sleep technologists, monitor their sleep Services interprets a conversation Connor Tondre during his sleep study. study patients. They will continue to between caregivers and the non-English- Connor’s father, Pat, sleeps on an air monitor the same patients all night. Each speaking family of a 23-month-old girl. mattress while his mother, Carol, sleeps sleep study lasts for a minimum of 6½ Language Access Services takes 375 on a pull-out bed in the room. Photo by hours. Photo by Mei-Chun Jau phone calls a day based on its January Mei-Chun Jau totals of 11,610. Photo by Louis Curtis

71 m. 3:10 a.m. 2:50 a. 3:07 a.m.

In the surgery waiting area, Dr. Michael Willie Davis guides a cart filled with soiled Nurses in the post-anesthesia care unit Skinner reports the status of a 14-month- linens. More than 150,000 pounds of work the overnight shift. Photo by old to the baby’s mother. Dr. Skinner has linens used throughout the hospital are Louis Curtis just completed emergency surgery for an cleaned each month. Photo by Louis Curtis incarcerated hernia, which was causing a threat to the child’s blood supply. Photo by Louis Curtis

7272 4:05 a.m. 5:09 a.m. 5:34 a.m.

Xochitt Juarez works hard to cough as Patient Dylan Smith, 5, shares his hospital Dr. Patrick Hairston, a fellow in the Pauline Ndirangu, respiratory therapist in bed with his mother, Misty Mayburn. pediatric intensive care unit, completes the pediatric intensive care unit, suctions Dylan will have surgery tomorrow to the paperwork necessary to re-admit a the toddler’s lungs. The 2-year-old has remove his kidney and reconstruct his child after a procedure. Photo by Rhinovirus, a respiratory infection, and is bladder. Photo by Juan Pulido David Leeson on a ventilator to aid with her severe respiratory distress. Photo by David Leeson

73 5:56 a.m.

This day, like every day, was extraordinary. We mended broken As people from the overnight shift leave the hospital, a new day begins for Laura bones and repaired defective hearts. We treated children with rare Oates. She’s hard at work in the Sterile diseases. We comforted and grieved with families whose children Processing and Distribution department — preparing a set of instruments for a could not be healed. We educated young physicians and pursued neurosurgery later in the morning. Photo by David Leeson cures for cancer, diabetes and other diseases through research.

And tomorrow we will do it all again.

74 Dear Friends and Supporters:

It is our privilege to share our 2008 Annual Report with 2008 Achievements you — One Day. Typical. Amazing. We hope that it pro- Facilities • Fully opened Children’s Medical Center vided a meaningful glimpse into the life-affirming care Legacy in Plano, Texas, with inpatient and outpatient care and diagnostic, surgical and that is delivered here every day. We were honored to emergency services. The move makes Chil- work with 15 award-winning professional photo-jour- dren’s the first pediatric hospital in the country to have a second, stand-alone, full- nalists who captured 24 hours of images and stories service hospital. • Major progress on the construction of a new from Children’s Medical Center. We chose Wednesday, 10-story tower on the Dallas campus. When November 19, 2008. It was just a regular day, and yet complete in late 2009, the tower will pro- vide expanded space for The Heart Center, these beautiful, dramatic photos serve to remind all of the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Neonatology and other services. us that a typical day here is hardly that. In fact, each day • Began an expansion of the Dallas Ambula- at Children’s offers hundreds of amazing, awe-inspiring tory Care Pavilion to add 53 exam rooms. Recognitions moments. • Ranked among the top 25 pediatric hospitals in the country by U.S.News & World Report 2008 was another year of tremendous progress for Children’s. We are for the third time in four years, with sub- specialty recognition in: Oncology; Digestive especially pleased to have opened Children’s Medical Center Legacy in Disorders; Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery; and Neurology and Neurosurgery. Plano, Texas, realizing a long-term vision to support the healthcare needs • Submitted application for Magnet designa- of our growing pediatric population in that region. We also were pleased tion to The American Nurses Credentialing Center and hosted a site visit in October. to have been ranked as one of the nation’s top 25 pediatric hospitals by Hospital leaders learned in early January that the hospital had received The Magnet U.S.News & World Report. Program designation by a unanimous vote of the ANCC.

2008 also was a year when your generosity continued to help us grow • The hospital was re-verified by the Ameri- and care for more children, in spite of unprecedented economic chal- can College of Surgeons as a Level I Trauma Center, remaining the only pediatric hospital lenges for our nation. We are deeply grateful for the more than $21 mil- in Texas with the designation. lion in gifts to Children’s last year. These gifts are critical to our future. As • Named a Most Wired Hospital for the fifth time in six years by Health Forum. you will see in the year-end financials in this report, we delivered more Science and Medicine than $43 million in totally uncompensated care last year. This is our mis- • The National Institutes of Health selected UT Southwestern as one of 36 centers to sion, our privilege and our responsibility, and we appreciate your unwa- participate in the National Children’s Study, which will follow 100,000 patients from be- vering support in helping us accomplish it year after year. fore birth to age 21. The study, which will involve Children’s patients, is authorized by On behalf of the entire team at Children’s, we would like to express our Congress. Dr. George Lister, pediatrician in chief at Children’s and chairman of the De- gratitude to you, our large community of friends and supporters, for al- partment of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern, is a principal investigator on the study. lowing us to make a difference each day as we are trusted with a family’s • Children’s and UT Southwestern recruited most precious resource — their children. 56 physicians to the hospital’s medical staff in 17 subspecialties, including Anesthesiol- ogy, Emergency Medicine and Neonatology.

• Surgeons successfully performed the hospi- tal’s 400th liver transplant, marking a mile- stone for the transplant program.

Christopher J. Durovich John L. Adams President & Chief Executive Officer Chairman of the Board

75 You Made a Difference

Children’s Medical Center has been caring for children for nearly a century. 2008 Philanthropy highlights

$ 5 million And, although many things have changed, such as advancements in The Constantin Foundation Supports the stem cell transplantation program diagnostic equipment, improved treatment protocols and leading edge clinical at Children’s.

$1.7 million research findings, one thing has remained the same — the passionate The Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Family Foundation commitment of our supporters to help fulfill our mission to make life better Supports the purchase of a Da Vinci surgical robot. for children. The community has remained steadfast in its pledge to stand $1.1 million Sudie and A. Gordon Worsham alongside its local pediatric hospital and further enable it to provide the best Establishes two charitable gift annuities that will endow professorships in pediatric cancer possible medical attention to all children, regardless of their family’s ability research and pediatric hematology-oncology research. to pay for their care. The gifts you made touched a child’s life and made a $1 million The Lupe Murchison Foundation difference. On behalf of the hundreds of thousands of children who sought Supports the stem cell transplantation program at Children’s. care at our hospital in 2008, thank you for your generosity that totaled $1 million The Women’s Auxiliary to Children’s more than $21 million. We will continue to honor deeply your investment Medical Center of Dallas Supports the Children’s Garden waterfall and streambed. and to steward thoughtfully the resources you have entrusted to us. $ 500,000 Carolyn and Mark Speese Supports the REACH Clinic at Children’s Legacy in Plano.

Contributions by fund designation Contributions by constituency $ 500,000 J.L. Williams Foundation Establishes an endowment for cardiac nursing.

$ 351,000 Star Children’s Charity Supports the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders program at Children’s Legacy in Plano, and establishes an endowment for I Operations I Individuals general operations at Children’s Legacy. $ 13,724,882 $4,882,254 $ 350,000 I Education I Mr. and Mrs. William R. Starkey, Jr./ Closely-held Corporations W.R. Starkey Mortgage $ 63,589 $ 175,164 Community First Foundation I Construction I Family Foundations Supports Children’s Legacy in Plano. $ 1,590,259 $ 2,927,147 $ 251,000 I Research I Estates/Bequests Kohl’s Department Stores $ 560,238 Supports the pediatric sports injury outreach $ 728,511 program. I General Patient Care I Associations/Organizations $140,000 $ 2,532,707 $ 3,191,554 The Children’s Trust I Equipment I Corporations Supports medical equipment for furnishing a $ 2,580,443 $ 1,968,453 new ambulance. TOTAL $ 21,052,118 I Other Foundations $ 7,179,035

TOTAL $ 21,052,118

76 childrens.com/give Your Gifts Make Our Care Possible

This year’s annual report showcases the extraordinary work that happens Clown Program Laughter truly is the best medicine, and Harlan at Children’s Medical Center every day. Philanthropic gifts from our many and Amy Korenvaes have supported this senti- ment to the fullest through their philanthropic generous supporters greatly enhanced our ability to provide remarkable investment in the Funnyatrics clown program. care. In particular, we would like to thank the following contributors Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) John and Barbara Stuart understand how for their gifts that made possible the programs and services featured in the important highly specialized care is for each child, and so they continue to give generously 2008 Annual Report: to meet the needs of the tiniest babies. The Crystal Charity Ball created an endowment to support education for the neonatology The Heart Center Neuroscience department and is supporting the construction The J.L. Williams Foundation and Drs. Lisa and The Perot Family Center for the Care of Brain of the Family Support Center in the NICU. Joseph Forbess established endowments to and Nerve Injuries strives to improve outcomes provide much-needed support for cardiac nurses. in brain-injured children. Trauma A generous gift from the Harold Simmons The Crystal Charity Ball Pediatric Emergency Neurology Foundation established the Annette Simmons Services Network, through a highly coordinated Believing in the importance of ongoing support Heart Hospital. and cooperative effort, educates emergency for neuroscience and the education of the next clinicians on how to best care for children. The Pogue Foundation established the Pogue generation of neurosurgeons, Betsy and Jim Distinguished Chair in the Division of Pediatric Sowell established the James E. Sowell Neuro- The H. Lee and Ann V. Hobson Endowment Cardiothoracic Surgery at UT Southwestern surgery Fellowship Endowment. was established for support of the Trauma Medical Center, which is currently held by department. Epilepsy Monitoring Unit Joseph M. Forbess, M.D., co-director of The The Alice Jenkins Endowment provides ongoing Pastoral Care Heart Center. support for the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit within Ecumenical family services such as pastoral care Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Seay graciously provided Neurology. are offered at no charge to patients and their strategic funding for the cardiovascular intensive families thanks to the generous support of phi- care unit, one of the largest intensive care units Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders lanthropists such as Dr. and Mrs. Henry Estess, Jr. for pediatric cardiac care in the region. With a mission to invest in the lives of children by funding cancer research, healing the soul and Endocrinology The establishment of the Joanie and Johnny advocating for a cancer-free tomorrow, Wipe The diabetes program at Children’s will Williams Heart Fund which will further demon- Out Kids’ Cancer has made philanthropic invest- continue to grow and develop through the strate the Williams’ passionate commitment to ments in Children’s that will make meaningful Wendell ‘Del’ Rahn Memorial Endowment. help all cardiac patients and their families. Their differences for generations to come. son, Kirk, was successfully treated at Children’s Day Surgery in 1962 for a congenital heart defect at the Through their generous gift, the Pauline Allen Dr. Ted Votteler was a genuine pioneer in age of 2 which also has led Mrs. Williams to Gill Foundation shares the Children’s commit- pediatric surgery. His legacy will live on through volunteer at Children’s for more than 40 years. ment to provide world-class care for patients in the Dr. Votteler Chief of Surgery Endowment the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Philanthropically more than $20 million has for educational support of the Day Surgery been contributed in support of patients who The Utay Family established an endowment program. visit The Heart Center. These generous for cancer research with the heartfelt belief that Clinical Research Program supporters include: the Harold Simmons research will one day provide the answers to Medical breakthroughs are discovered each day Foundation, the Pogue Foundation, The Frank cure cancer. and Carolyn Ryburn Fund at the Communities thanks to gifts from community members like Foundation, the David Bruton, Jr. Charitable Children’s Medical Center Legacy Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Beecherl, Jr., who support Trust, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Seay, and the Thanks to the generous support of the commu- clinical research. Rudman Family. nity, the Children’s Legacy campaign raised Surgery more than $16 million. Supporters include: Pete The most technologically advanced and mini- Emergency Department and Jerry Abbott, Joyce and Denny Houlihan, the mally invasive surgeries are available to patients Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Seay provided valuable Rudman Family, Carolyn and Mark Speese, The because of the gift of a Da Vinci surgical robot, seed funding for the Emergency Department at Andrea-Mennen Foundation and LegacyTexas provided by The Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Children’s. Bank. Family Foundation.

To learn more about giving, call 214-456-8360. 77 Re-investing in Children, Community

For more than 90 years, Children’s has focused on one mission: to make life Education and Outreach Through a combination of programmatic initia- better for children. That mission drives every program we offer, every physi- tives, organization affiliations and community events, Children’s reinvests its net income into cian and caregiver we educate, every injury we work to prevent and every prevention, research, education, clinical excel- lence and advocacy that benefits all children. disease we seek to cure. However, challenges come from multiple angles — In 2008, the hospital committed its resources a turbulent economy, rising healthcare costs and increasing numbers of directly to the community in numerous ways. The highlights include: under- and uninsured children. Reduced income from Medicaid, insurance • Publishing Beyond ABC: Growing Up in Dallas County, and for the first time in 2008, publish- and other sources also is a factor. In 2008, Children’s provided $43.3 million ing Beyond ABC: Growing Up in Collin County. The biennial quality-of-life reports inform in verified charity care to children whose families could not afford to pay. community leaders and reinvigorate efforts to make North Texas a better place for children.

• Founding member and sponsor of the Coali- Strong financial reputation tion for North Texas Children, whose mem- bership works to keep children’s issues top of In spite of such challenges, Children’s remains committed to balancing fiscal mind for policymakers and the public. In 2008, Children’s led the creation of the Children responsibility with meeting the needs of children in the community. Children’s First! Collin County Coalition comprised of 50 Collin County-based organizations focused on outperforms the median ratios for other major children’s hospitals and “Aa3” the well-being of children.

• Participation in the Dallas Area Coalition to hospitals nationally in the majority of rating categories. Moody’s Investor Prevent Childhood Obesity and related activi- ties. Children’s hosted a visit and roundtable Service has given Children’s its top “Aa3” rating, an indication of the hospital’s discussion by the U.S. Surgeon General and strong financial footing. The rating, affirmed in June 2008, is based on the sponsored the Get Kidz Fit Fest at Dallas’ Fair Park designed to educate children and their strong cash position of Children’s combined with factors such as the hospital’s families about wellness and nutrition. • Educating coaches, parents and athletes with governance/management structure, medical staff, services and service area, sports injury prevention workshops and mate- rials through area sports leagues. competition, financial resources and legal structure. • Leadership of the Dallas Area Safe Kids Coali- tion, the local chapter of Safe Kids Worldwide.

• Participation in community safety activities, in- Patient volumes 2003-2008 cluding the Know Before You Go water safety and drowning prevention campaign; the In 2008, Children’s saw patient volumes increase in inpatient admissions, Summer Safety and Fun Day at NorthPark Center; and an educational booth on eating outpatient visits, Emergency Department visits and surgical cases. disorders at the Dallas Children’s Theater dur- ing the stage production of Eat (It’s Not About the Food).

% increase • Collaboration with the Dallas Area CHIP 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2003-2008 Coalition on numerous events and activities Inpatient volume 17,229 18,402 20,682 21,108 22,436 23,652 37.3% targeted at reaching uninsured families with the message of the Children’s Health Insur- Outpatient volumes 280,815 281,659 306,703 307,250 321,930 350,596 24.8% ance Program. Surgical cases 17,545 18,177 19,687 19,147 19,936 22,008 25.4%

78 childrens.com/give Consolidated Financial Summary

For the periods ending December 31, 2008 and 2007. Dollars in millions. 31.1% 31.0% 27.8% 26.0% 22.9% 21.3%

Summary Income Statement 2008* 2007 Net Operating Revenues $ 744.9 $ 639.4 Operating Expenses (719.2) (591.8) Income from Operations 25.7 47.6 6.5(x) Disproportionate Share, GME Revenue 27.3 26.4 Operating Income 53.0 74.0 Investment Income (55.7) 17.7

2.7(x) Net Income $ (2.7) $ 91.7 2.6(x) 2.5(x) 1.7(x) 1.7(x)

Summary Changes in Net Assets Current Assets 196.2 $ 192.4 Property and Equipment, Net 680.3 568.6 Investments 230.3 286.7 Net Assets of Foundation 224.2 260.1 Other 8.8 16.9 Total Assets $ 1,339.8 $ 1,324.7

Current Liabilities (144.6) (152.7) Long-term Liabilities (370.3) (250.0) Total Liabilities $ (514.9) $ (402.7)

Net Assets $ 824.9 $ 922.0 (x) 6.3(x) 6.1(x) 6.0(x) 6.2

4.7(x)

2.5(x)

* Figures are unaudited at time of printing. Visit www.childrens.com for quarterly financial statements.

To learn more about giving, call 214-456-8360. 79 Children’s Medical Center Ms. Patty Weynand Phoebe D. and Samuel G. Lisa and Joseph Forbess William Joseph Kowalski John Marc Myers Endowment gratefully acknowledges the Mrs. Martha R. Wheeler Catli, Jr. Endowment Endowment Endowment Support for the Center for following individuals, families, Gail White Support for the Neonatal Support for the Heart Center. Support for Physical Therapy Cancer and Blood Disorders foundations, corporations and Joanie and Johnny Williams Intensive Care Unit. within the Physical Medicine and and Child Life department. organizations whose charitable Mr. Ivor P.Wold Genetics Services in honor Rehabilitation department. contributions in 2008 helped to Mr. and Mrs. Blair P.Woodall Keely and William Cawley of Dr. Spencer Johnston Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nearburg further our mission to make life Sudie and A. Gordon Worsham Endowment Endowment Edward J. and Virginia C. Endowment better for children. Ms. Hallie M. Young Support for the REACH clinic. Support for the Genetics Kremer Endowment To Be Designated * Deceased department. Support for the Chaplaincy The Meredith D. Chesler department. Thomas H. and Judy A. THEBRADFORDSOCIETY Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Gruber Neuhoff Endowment Children’s is thankful to the ESTATE GIFTS Research support for the Endowed Fund Grace Lee Endowment Support for the Child Life following individuals who have Children’s is thankful to the Neuro-Oncology department. Support for the Center for Scholarship support for nursing department. named us as a beneficiary in their following individuals for gifting Cancer and Blood Disorders. staff. wills or life-income gifts, such as their estates to help those cared Max and Gayle Clampitt Lauren E. Newman Endowment a charitable trust or gift annuity. for at our hospital. Endowment Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Steven R. and Janet C. Leonard Research support for the Center Support for general hospital needs. Endowment Endowment for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Mrs. Ruth E. Adler Estate of Roberta D. Barton Support for the Chaplaincy Support for the Social Work Anonymous (10) Estate of Bennye Caraway Jennifer L. Clark Endowment department. department. Dr. and Mrs. Hisashi Nikaidoh Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Baker Estate of Josephine H. Huguenin Support for general hospital needs. Endowment Mr. Charles R. Baldwin Estate of Katherine R. Lang Dr. John and Polly Hall Les Femmes du Monde Support for the Chaplaincy Mr. and Mrs. Gene H. Bishop Estate of Helen Fair Peterson Clendening Family Endowment Endowment Endowment department. Mr. A. Wade Black Estate of Eric G. Schroeder Support for general hospital needs. Support for the Anesthesiology Support for the Child Life Dr. Alison Black Estate of Marian M. Schwab department. department. Floyd A. Norman, M.D. Jacqueline and Richard Bowman Harold G. Cole and Ester F. Endowment Ms. Carole A. Bragg Cole Endowment Ed and Randi Halsell Endowment Pam and Tom Luce Endowment Support for the Chaplaincy Frank and Marie Agnes* Bray ENDOWMENTS Support for the Genetics Support for the ARCH center. Support for the Chaplaincy department. Ms. Betty G. Brown Permanent funds at Children’s department. department. Mr. and Mrs.* John S. Brown, Sr. produce annual income for a Arthur L. and Mary L. Harding Oristano Foundation Ms. Lillie Brumit variety of uses, including: patient Harold G. Cole and Ester F. Endowment Wanda L. Lyday Endowment Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bychok care, medical education, Cole Endowment Support for general hospital needs. in honor of Dr. Frank Hawley Support for the Child Life Fran and Bill Carter psychosocial programs, research Support for the Psychiatry Newton department. Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Carter and capital equipment. Named department. Andrea and David A. Hart Support for general hospital needs. Mrs. Mary Lee Casey endowments are restricted to a Endowment Lena Palmore and Charles K. Mr. and Mrs. Brent E. Christopher specific use by the contributors Conroy Family Endowment Support for the Child Life Leah McCulloch Endowment Davis Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Cicherski who create them. General Support for the Center for department. for the Center for Cancer and Support for the Speech and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cicherski program endowments are Cancer and Blood Disorders. Blood Disorders Audiology department. Joyce and John Conroy restricted by the hospital based Heath Family Endowment in Support for the Child Life Jay and Stephanie Courtney on identified funding needs. Leo F. Corrigan Endowment Honor of Sharon Worrell department within the Center The Pausic Family Endowment Bruce and Janiece Crozier Support for general hospital needs. Support for the REACH clinic. for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Support for the Pain Shelby and Scott Dabney Alexander F. Adler Endowment Management department. Dr. Juanita Dale Support for general hospital needs. Jackson David Crowe Robert S. Hendler, M.D. and Lisa McGown Endowment Ms. Bonnie Dixon Endowment Kathleen Muldoon Endowment Support for the Child Life Peter Pan Children’s Fund Robert and Patricia Doffing The Eleanor W. Allen Support for the Heart Center Support for the Psychiatry department. Birthday Club Endowment Frances and David Eisenberg and Marjorie A. Tranchin Intensive Care Unit. department. Support for the Injury Prevention James* and Betty Farnsworth Endowment Bernice and Brudus Meyerson program. Wanda and George Farr Support for the Craniofacial Crystal Charity Ball Eunice Hertenstein Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Fischer department. Neonatology Education Endowment Support for the Chaplaincy Philbin Endowment Jacqueline W. Franey Endowment Support for general hospital needs. department. Support for the Child Life Ms. Gloria B. Graham Andrea Family Foundation Educational support for the department. Judith E. Grant Endowment Neonatology department. The H. Lee and Ann V. Hobson Kerry Edward Meyers Jayne and Don Grimes Support for the Child Life Endowment Endowment Bryan and Mike Pickens Mr. Steve P.Hagemann department. Crystal Charity Ball Support for the Trauma Research support for the Endowment Ms. Louise H. Hanaway Pediatric Emergency Services department. Endocrinology department. Support for the Chaplaincy Ms. Sandra L. Harrington Billie and Bill Aylesworth Network Physician department. John W. and Marlys L. Harris Endowment Leadership Endowment Amelia “Mimi” Lay Hodges En- Paul P.and Dorothy Middleton Ms. Jennifer Sutton Holder Support for general hospital needs. Support for physician leadership dowment Endowment Pittet Family Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Oscar C. Hollis of the Emergency Services Support for the Child Life Support for general hospital Support for the Heart Center. Mrs. Margaret W. Hopkins Bill and Angie Barrett Endowed Network. department. needs. Mrs. Rebecca R. Horner Lectureship Pogue Family Master Clinicians Mrs. Ruth S. Ince Educational support for the Crystal Charity Ball Pediatric Holmberg Family Endowment Mike and Charla Miller Endowment Ms. Jeanne R. Johnson ARCH Center. Emergency Services Network Support for the Child Life Endowment General support for Master Mr. Harvey D. Jones Nurse Leadership Endowment department. Support for the Child Life Clinicians. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Kowalski The Nannie Hogan Boyd Support for nurse leadership department. Cynthia and David Krause Endowment of the Emergency Services The Rebecca and Blake Holmes Preston Hollow Presbyterian Mr. and Mrs. Hans Kunz Educational support for the Network. Family Endowment Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Miller Church Endowment Britt and Beth Langford Genetics department. Support for the Child Life Endowment Support for the Chaplaincy Mr.* and Mrs. George A. Linskie Dallas Heart Ball Pediatric department within the Center Support for the Child Life department. Mr. and Mrs. William R. Lorenz Stephanie Michele Brant Cardiology Clinical Research for Cancer and Blood Disorders. department. Kay and Dennis Magill Endowment Endowment Pringle Family Endowment Sharon and Mike McCullough Support for the Heart Center Research support for the Heart J.L. Huffines Endowment Mike Modano Foundation Support for the Heart Center. Mr. William W. McGinnis Intensive Care Unit. Center. Support for the Social Work Endowment Ms. Marilyn D. McJimsey department. Support for the ARCH Center. Wendell “Del” Rahn Memorial Ms. Melanie Medanich Gregory Breitler Endowment Craig Alan Davis Endowment Endowment John D. and Frankie E.* Montgomery Research support for the Center Support for the Heart Center. Cheryl and Keith Hughes John D. and Frankie E. Support for the Diabetes Mr. and Mrs. James A. Moore, Jr. for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Endowment Montgomery Endowment program. Dr. S. Halcuit Moore, Jr. Joe M. and Doris R. Dealey Support for general hospital Research support for the Center Dr. and Mrs. Gary C. Morchower Cindy Brinker Endowment Endowment needs. for Cancer and Blood Disorders. George “Robbie” and Lynore Jan and J. Marc Myers Educational support for the Support for general hospital Robinson Family Endowment Sandy Kahn Nachman Center for Cancer and Blood needs. Jane and Noble Hurley Chip Moody Endowment General support for the Child Hisashi and Lynn Nikaidoh Disorders. Endowment Support for the Social Work Life Directorship. Jack and Nancy Oliver James Farnsworth Support for the Chaplaincy department. Mr. Paul M. Oliver Carson Brock Endowment Scholarship Fund department. Leon and Leah Rudberg Mark and Lynn Oristano Support for general hospital needs. Scholarship support for medical Robert L. Moore, M.D. Endowment Tina and Duffy Oyster education. Alice Jenkins Endowment Endowment Support for education and Ms. Maurine Pearson Jean Ann and Stephen W. Brock Support for the Epilepsy Support for general research. research in emergency and Sally W. Lyon and Endowment George Farr Endowment Monitoring Unit within ambulatory medicine. Christopher J. Pfeiffer Support for the Social Work Support for general hospital needs. Neurology. Paula F.and James A. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Judson C. Phillips department. Endowment in honor of The Frank S. and Mary Jane Natalie S. Potter The Gladys Fashena, M.D., Dixie Shelley Jones Endowment Adam W. Schwartz Ryburn Endowment Deborah Price, Au. D. Suzy and John S. Brown, Sr. Endowed Lectureship in Support for the Child Life Support for the Child Life Research support within the Mrs. J. Philip Pringle Endowment Pediatric Medicine department. department and research Heart Center. Donna and Gary R. Rahn Support for general hospital needs. Scholarship support for medical support for the Center for Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Lee Raley education. Sue R. Justice Family Cancer and Blood Disorders. Sage Telecom Endowed Fund in Patty and Ben Retta Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Butt Endowment Honor of Denny Houlihan Greg and Joey Robertson Endowment James M. and Nancy Fears Support for the Social Work Dr. Bob and Brenda Morgan Support for general operations Robbie and Lynore Robinson Support for the Chaplaincy Endowment department. Endowment at the Legacy Campus. Janice and Richard Rogers department. Educational scholarship support Support for general hospital Mr. Joseph A. Salgado for nursing staff. Fannie Reeves Kahn Endowment needs. Mary Dupree Scovell Carol and Skipp Schauer Clarlyn and Victor Bychok Support for general hospital Endowment Ms. Beverley Schey Endowment. First Presbyterian Church needs. Morgan Family Endowment Support for the Child Life Charles E.* and Sarah M. Seay Support for the Child Life of Dallas Endowment Support for Translation Services department. Cindy Brinker Simmons department. Support for the Chaplaincy Gina Kay Child Life within the Language Access David and Carol Slover department. Endowment department. Debbie and Ric Scripps Mrs. Miriam G. Star Capital for Kids Endowment Support for the Child Life Endowment Mrs. Sally Seay Stout Support for the ARCH Center. E.E. Fogelson and Greer department. Philip and Eloise Morlan Support for the Child Life Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. Swenson Garson Fogleson Endowment Endowment department. Mrs. James R. Terrell Fran and Bill Carter Endowment Support for the Craniofacial Harlan and Amy Korenvaes Support for the Child Life Joyce and Bennett Tibbs Support for general hospital needs. department. Endowment department. Victor A. and Margaret Trubitt Support for the Child Life Ms. Sandra K. Turner department. Mr. and Mrs. Doug Vanderslice

80 childrens.com/give Nancy and George Seay Votteler Chief of Surgery $10,000 - $999,999 Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Miller Mr. and Mrs. William R. Starkey, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cicherski Endowment Endowment Steven and Carol Aaron Mike Modano Foundation Jr./W.R. Starkey Mortgage Mr. Donald C. Clampitt Support for the Foster Educational support for the Day Mr. and Mrs. Jerome T. Abbott John D. and Frankie E.* Montgomery Community First Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William P. Grandmother program within Surgery department. Wilhelmina and Edward Ackerman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Team Holmes Clements, Jr. the ARCH Center. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Adams Montgomery The Grottoes of North America Ms. Louise G. Cochran Kaitlyn Pearce Wade Mr. and Mrs. David E. Alexander Mr. Bruce H. Morgan United Way of Metropolitan Mr. and Mrs. James E. Coleman, Jr. Seven Bar Endowment Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Alexander Mrs. Charles Gill Morgan Dallas, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Kellam Colquitt Support for the Emergency Support for the Center for The Andrea-Mennen Family Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Morgan Ms. Karen Connell Transport department. Cancer and Blood Disorders. Foundation (TAFF) The Mulford Family $50,000 - $99,999 Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Copley, Jr. Anonymous (8) Pauline and Austin Neuhoff Children’s Cancer Fund Ms. Elizabeth E. Cote Priscilla and Steven D. Craig Walker Family Mr. and Mrs. John C. Avary Mr. and Mrs. William D. Oates of Dallas, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Courtney Shellenberger Endowment Endowment Billie and Bill Aylesworth David and Lisa Adelle O’Brien Clayton Dabney Foundation for Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Courtwright Support for the Urology Support for the Chaplaincy Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Baker Jack & Nannerl H. Ryan Kids with Cancer Ellen and Gary Cozart department. department. Mr. and Mrs. Dan L. Beaird Foundation Jack & Nannerl H. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. John C. Crews Cynthia and Brice Beaird Mr. and Mrs. John C. O’Neill Foundation Gerry and Charles Cristol Bob Smith, M.D. Endowment Arthur G. Weinberg Endowment The Bee Family Tina and Duffy Oyster Junior League of Dallas, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Brenton Croley Support for the Urology Support for the Arthur G. Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Beltz Ms. Marcia Page KidneyTexas, Inc. Mr. Harry Crosby department. Weinberg Award. Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Benson Mr. and Mrs. James H. Pasant Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Stanley L. Crossman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Berutti Ms. Kelley A. MacDougall and Love Life Foundation Mr.* and Mrs. Trammell Crow Kimberly Anne Sowden Carl and Jimmy Westcott David Biegler and Diane Knape Mr. Michael A. Pausic John D. and Frankie E.* Montgomery Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Cullum Endowment Endowment Mr. and Mrs. A. Wade Black David K. Peters Ms. Kelley A. MacDougall Mr. and Mrs. Dan R. Cullum Support for the Craniofacial Support for general hospital needs. The Boone Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Phillip B. Philbin and Mr. Michael A. Pausic Mrs. Robert B. Cullum, Sr. department. Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bowman Mr. Lawrence S. Pollock, III RGK Foundation Ms. Eloise Cullum Jimmy Elizabeth Westcott Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Boyce, Jr. Mr. Robert G. Pollock Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George M. Cunyus James E. Sowell Neurosurgery Endowment Mr. Frank W. Bray Natalie S. Potter Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Van Cleave Dr. Jennifer Cuthbert Fellowship Endowment General support for Mr. and Mrs. Dave M. Brennan, Sr. Mrs. J. Philip Pringle Mr. and Mrs. Lee Danis Support for the Neurosurgery Children’s Medical Center Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bychok Vin and Caren Prothro Family $25,000 - $49,999 Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Daulton department. Pediatric Neurology Chair. Horace C. Cabe Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Karl Rathjen Hall Financial Group Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dauterive Mr. and Mrs. Wililiam R. Cawley Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Reese Speedway Children’s Charities - Mr. and Mrs. Troy Davidson Star Children’s Charity Robert Wiebe Emergency Nancy and Dan Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Kirk L. Rimer Texas in memory of Endowment Center Endowment Donna S. and Robert A. Chereck Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Thomas Scott Davidson Support for general operations Support for the Emergency Mr. and Mrs. Jae Chung Rittenmeyer Ms. Delerna V. Davis at Children’s Legacy. Room Center. Mary McDermott Cook Mr. and Mrs. John L. Roach CIRCLEOFFRIENDS Mr. Mark Davis Michael and Kathryn Crow George “Robbie” and Lynore Children’s extends appreciation Mr. Charles A. Dawson Staubach Foundation Susan and Joel Williams, III Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brooks Robinson to the following individuals for Ms. Linda J. Deloach Endowment Endowment Cullum, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip J. Romano gifts of $1,000 or more in 2008. Hemang and Sejal Desai Support for the Diabetes Support for the Chaplaincy Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Currier The Rudman Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Dick program. department. The Dabney Family Ms. Stacy Schusterman Drs. Rajjit and Amola Abrol Mr. William A. Dickenson Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Dardick Mr. and Mrs. John R. Sears, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell T. Acker Ms. Antionette Diggins The Carter Stephenson, Kathryn Elizabeth and Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Darling Senator Florence and Mr. and Mrs. John Ahmed Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Doramus William E. Walker and Bill Benjamin Edward Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P.Darling Mr. Howard Shapiro Mr. James B. Allin Mr. and Mrs. Jason H. Downie Walker Jr. Endowment Memorial Endowment Mr. and Mrs. William D. Darling Mr. and Mrs. Patrick B. Shelby Mr. and Mrs. Charlie R. Allison Mr. Craig J. Duchossois Support for the Neuro- Support for the Chaplaincy Mr. and Mrs. John S. Delatour Stemmons Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Altabef Mr. and Mrs. David J. Dugger Oncology department. department. Mr. and Mrs. William W. Diehl Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sinacola Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Z. Altshuler Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Duncan Mr. and Mrs. Todd E. Diener Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sinwell Anonymous (4) Ms. Delerna V. Edwards The Barbara White Stuart Cayla and William Woodruff Dr. William H. Dunklin, III Mr. and Mrs. Ellis M. Skinner, II Mr. Aneesh Aravind Mr. and Mrs. Gayne R. Ek Endowment Endowment Christina and Chris Durovich Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Speese Shane, Allison and Brandon Arledge Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Elder Support for the Neonatology Support for the Nephrology Mr. and Mrs. Ray R. Dziesinski Mr. Horace M. Staggs Mr. and Mrs. Robert F.Ashley Ms. Beth P.Ellis department. department. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Eagle Mr. and Mrs. William R. Starkey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Askew Mr. Gary D. Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Engibous Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Staubach Mr. and Mrs. Jerald T. Baldridge Mr. and Mrs. Dwight H. John and Barbara Stuart Sharon and Terry Worrell Mr. and Mrs. Carl F.Ewert Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stroud Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ball Emanuelson, Jr. Endowment Family Endowment Ms. Gail O. Ewing Barbara and John Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Gussie J. Ballew Mark E. Dyslin and Support for the General Surgery Support for the Child Life Dr. and Mrs. Alan C. Peggy and Jere Thompson Mrs. Louise L. Barbeck Cheryl A. Engelmann department. department. Farrow-Gillespie Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barrett Mr. and Mrs. Felipe G. Estrada, III Mr. and Mrs. R. Steve Folsom Thompson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Bartholow Mr. and Mrs. Robert Estrada Roy and Christine Sturgis Sudie and A. Gordon Worsham Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Folsom Carol and Gifford Touchstone Mr. and Mrs. Ben Beaird Mr. and Mrs. Lance S. Etcheverry Endowment Professorship in Drs. Lisa and Joseph Forbess Ms. Sandra K. Turner Mr. Marvin C. Bean Mr. and Mrs. H. Craig Evans Scholarship support for nursing Pediatric Cancer Research Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Ford Mr. and Mrs. Alan M. Utay Mr. and Mrs. Randy Best Mrs. Elizabeth L. Farnsworth staff. Research support for the Center Ms. Katherine L. Friend Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Van Cleave Mr. Rhys J. Best Mrs. Betty Farnsworth for Cancer and Blood Disorders. A. Charles Funai Varrichio Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Betts The John C. Farris Family Timothy J. Sullivan Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Randy Garrett Margaret Bright Vonder Hoya Mr. David L. & Ms. Sheila Davis Mr. and Mrs. Howard Feldman, Support for the Asthma Sudie and A. Gordon Worsham Mr. and Mrs. Richard Greco The Gil & Dody Weaver Beuerlein Jonathan, Jeffrey and Michael Management program. Professorship in Pediatric Mr. and Mrs. William D. Griffin Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Bieler Mr. H. Mark Fewin Hematology and Oncology Kelly and Steven Gruber Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Mr. Ernie L. Black, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Field, III The Alta A. Sweeney Research Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Guise, Jr. Welwood, Jr. Mr. Robert Black Mr. and Mrs. Ed Finer Endowment Research support for the Center Ambassador Kathryn and Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Whann Mr. and Mrs. William A. Blase, Jr. Ms. Laura L. Fink Support for the Craniofacial for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Mr. Craig Hall Joanie and Johnny Williams Mrs. Betsy C. Bolin Mr. and Mrs. Nathan O. Finke department. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Hall Mrs. Jonell H. Williams Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Bowers Lois and Ross Finkelman William and Sylvia Zale Randi and Edward Halsell Judith A. Williams Family Ms. Lara E. Bowman Mr. Mark Finsterwald The James S. Sweeney Endowment Ms. Sandra L. Harrington Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jon Bradley Jared Alexander Fleitman Endowment Scholarship support for nursing David, Andrea, Hunter, Carson Todd and Abby Williams The Honorable and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Foran Support for the Chaplaincy staff. and Parker Hart Mr. John E. Shuey and Mrs. Dan Branch Mr. and Mrs. Monte E. Ford department. Fred, Jan, Peter, Amy, Brian Ms. Patricia U. Winning Mr. Lennard Brasseaux Ms. Angelia D. Foster and Libby Hegi Kevin and Kyle Witt Ms. Robin L. Breitzka Mr. Antoine Foy Charles M. and Nadine Tanner CHILDREN’SCIRCLEOFCARE Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Heller Memorial Foundation Mrs. Faye C. Briggs Mr. and Mrs. James B. Francis, Jr. Endowment Children’s is thankful to each Drs. James and Beverly Herring Mr. Darrell W. Wootton Mrs. Rosemary H. Briggs Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Frank Educational support for nursing individual and family who Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Hickok Mr. and Mrs. Terry N. Worrell Mr. Louis E. Brizzolara and Mr. and Mrs. Craig D. Franklin staff. generously gave $10,000 or Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Hicks Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Wyly, Jr. Ms. H. Kate Hopkins Ms. Melissa K. Free more to help further pediatric Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Hobson Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Zevallos Mr. and Mrs. Scott T. Brock Mr. and Mrs. Barry L. Friedman Paul P.Taylor Pediatric medicine in 2008. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas G. Hock Mr. and Mrs. Kurt A. Zuch Mr. and Mrs. Mason C. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Jeffry S. Fronterhouse Dentistry Association Mr. Roy E. Hock *Deceased M. K. Bryant Mr. Pedro Garcia Endowment Lifetime Members Mr. and Mrs. Houston E. Ms. Donna L. Bryant Mr. Samuel Z. Garcia Educational support for the Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Holmes, Jr. MAJORCOMMITMENTS Ms. Sharon E. Bucher Mr. and Mrs. Jason C. Garrett Dental department. Mr. and Mrs. Gene H. Bishop Mr. and Mrs. N. Bunker Hunt Children’s gratefully acknowledges Mr. and Mrs. John Buffa Mr. and Mrs. Kevin S. Gaskey Mr. and Mrs. B. Gill Clements Gene and Jerry Jones Family each individual, foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Kali Buhariwalla Ms. Joanne Gaskill Texas Attorney General Award Mr. and Mrs. Harlan R. Crow Ms. Vivian Jones corporation for its major commit- Mr. and Mrs. John R. Bunten Mr. and Mrs. Steven H. Gendler Support for underprivileged Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Crow Mr. and Mrs. Fehmi Karahan ment in 2008 to support the Ms. Regina L. Burks Ms. Joan L. Germany children. Mr. Trammell S. Crow, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. King patients cared for at our hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Randall W. Burrow Mrs. Linda H. Gibbons Dr. and Mrs. Henry Estess, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Peter Kline Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Burt Mr. and Mrs. J. David Gillikin JJ Tissing Memorial Endowment The Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Mr. and Mrs. Charles Koetting $5 million + Mr. and Mrs. Carter J. Butler Janie Means Gilmore Educational support for nursing Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Harlan B. Korenvaes The Constantin Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John B. Butler Ms. Robin W. Glowski staff. The Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Kozmetsky Susan and Stephen Butt Mr. and Mrs. James E. Goddard Foundation Mr. Curt X. Kramer $1,000,000 - $4, 999,999 Mrs. Lou B. Cagle Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goff, Jr. Tom Thumb Kindness for Kids Hawn Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Lamb, III The Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Ms. Leslie C. Cain Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Goldstein Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. Houlihan Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Lathem Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Tom G. Calhoun, II Mr. Robert N. Goldstein Support for the ACE program Mr. and Mrs. William H. La Font Mr. John V. Lattimore, Jr. The Lupe Murchison Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David A. Campbell Mr. Thomas P.Goranson within the Center for Cancer and Ms. Pauline Neuhoff Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lavie Women’s Auxiliary to Children’s Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carlin Mr. Mark Graban Blood Disorders. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Perot Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Lee Medical Center of Dallas Mr. M. Carlton Mr. Steve Granzberg Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Pogue Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Lester Fran and Bill Carter Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Green The Dr. Louis R. Turbeville, Jr. Melissa and Blair Pogue Anne J. Logan $100,000 - $999,999 Mr. Jeffrey A. Carter Ms. Leesa Green Pediatric Research Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Ric Scripps Mr. and Mrs. Alan W. Losinger AT&T Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Carter Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Grogan, Jr. Support for general research. Mr.* and Mrs. Charles E. Seay, Sr. Kay and Dennis Magill Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Benson Mr. Robert E. Cashman Mr. and Mrs. Chris Groves Mr. and Mrs. George E. Seay, Jr. Sharon and Mike McCullough Capital One Bank Mr. and Mrs. Sid Cates Cindy M. and Charles L. Gummer The Utay Family Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Simmons Ms. Gail McDonald and Engibous Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Conley and Mr. John W. Hagaman Research support for the Center Dr. Bob and Jean Smith Mr. Jeffrey Murphy Kohl’s Department Stores Linda Cathey Mr. and Mrs. Anthony B. Hairston for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Foundation/Mrs. Bob Smith Mr. and Mrs. Patrick K. McGee Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Mr. and Mrs. Rick Cecil Mr. Perry Hall Mr. and Mrs. James E. Sowell Dr. Phil Foundation Rittenmeyer The Chancey Family Mr. and Mrs. Wallace L. Hall, Jr. Sharon and Robert Van Cleave Mrs. Nadine B. Tanner The Paul Merkle Family Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sinacola Mr. and Mrs. Vinson Chapman Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Endowment Vanberg Family Foundation Deborah and David Michel Carolyn and Mark Speese Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Chauviere Hamlett, Jr. Support for the REACH clinic. Mark and Alison Weinzierl Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mihalopoulos Star Children’s Charity Mr. David Chavez-Cerda Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Hamlin Sudie and A. Gordon Worsham Mr. Robert J. and Dr. Michele R. Mr. and Mrs. Troy W. Childers Ms. Jolynn Hanson Miles Mr. and Mrs. Ralph B. Choppy Ms. Kathy L. Harper

To learn more about giving, call 214-456-8360. 81 Del and Ann Harris Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Metten Ms. Jean D. Smither Ballew Foundation Ivor O’Connor Morgan Trust Stanford C. and Mary Clare for Christian Principles Charla and Mark D. Miller Dr. and Mrs. William H. Snyder, III Bank of America J.L. Williams Foundation, Inc. Finney Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Bob D. Harrison Ms. Yuliya Minkovskaya Mr. and Mrs. William S. Snyder Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & J.M. Haggar, Jr. Family Foundation Starbucks Coffee Company Mr. and Mrs. V. R. Heady, Sr. Mr. Larry Minyard Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sowden Strauss, Inc. Jack & Nannerl H. Ryan Foundation State Farm Mutual Automobile Dr. Robert S. Hendler and Ms. Isabel Miranda Mr. and Mrs. Dan Spears BCSW, LP James and Elizabeth Sowell Insurance Company Mrs. Kathleen A. Muldoon Dr. and Mrs. James B. Montgomery J. Lee and Lillian J. Stambaugh Ben G. Barnett Foundation Foundation Stemmons Foundation Mr. Christian Henning Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mooney Mr. and Mrs. Robert Starzyk Berne Academy James D. & Kay Y. Moran Strom Aviation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Henry Mr. and Mrs. James A. Moore, Jr. Mrs. E. L. Stedman BestofDFW.com Foundation Sulentic Family Foundation Mr. Monta Henry Ms. Laura A. Moore Ms. Elizabeth W. Stephenson BMX Imports Jeffrey A. Carter Foundation Super Tacaso, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Robert F.Hensley Mr. and Mrs. Jon L. Mosle, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin D. Stevenson Borden Milk Products, L.P. Jennifer Lynn Stroud Foundation Susan H. and John C. Farris Mr. C. A. Henson Mr. Jose A. Motta Mr. and Ms. Glenn Stewart Bosworth Steel Erectors, Inc. Jonathan Pace Foundation Family Charitable Foundation Mr. T. G. Henson Mr. and Mrs. Randall F.Muck Mrs. Sally Seay Stout Bray Family Charitable Trust JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Brad Heppner Ms. Elena P.Munoz Mr. and Mrs. Phin W. Stubbs, Jr. Capital One Bank Judith A. Williams Family Foundation Tenet Volunteer Involvement Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Herman Mr. and Mrs. Burk C. Murchison Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Sulentic Carrie S. Orleans Trust Junior League of Dallas, Inc. Program Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Hersh Mr. and Mrs. Randall K. Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Gregory J. Sumner Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Junior League of Plano, Inc. Terrace House Stephen K. Hetey, MS, RPh, FASHP Mr. and Mrs. Chris Najork Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Blumenthal, L.L.P. Kevin and Kyle Witt Memorial Tetco Stores, L.P. Dr. and Mrs. Roy J. Heyne, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jason Nash Swartzendruber CB Richard Ellis, Inc. Foundation Texas Discovery Gardens Ms. Samantha Hindle Mr. Patrick E. Neal Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. Swenson Celeste and Kurt Zuch Family KidLinks Foundation Texas Plywood and Lumber Mr. Paul Hogaboom Dr. and Mrs. Joe Neely Mr. and Mrs. Smokey Swenson Foundation KidsDental - Carrollton Company, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Hollweg Mike and Wende Neitzel Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Swope Central Market - HEB Kimberly-Clark Foundation, Inc. Thank Heaven Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Blake R. Holmes Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O. Mr. Andrew W. Sykes Championship Auto Racing Kline Family Foundation The Elder Family Foundation Trust Jeffrey D. Holt, D.D.S., M.S., P.C. Neuhoff, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul F.Tagg Auxiliary KLTY 94.9 FM Radio The American Academy of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hood Mr. Jeffrey Newman Margarete Talarico Charity Motors, Inc. Kohl’s Department Stores Pediatrics Mr. David J. Hook Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Nicholson Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Tanner Children’s Cancer Fund of Dallas, Inc. KPMGLLP The Andrea-Mennen Family Mrs. Margaret W. Hopkins Mr. Bill Niederstadt Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Taylor Children’s National Medical Center Land Rover Dallas - Frisco Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Don M. Houseman Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Noller Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Taylor Citigroup Foundation Law Offices of Steven M. Rudner The Baldridge Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Matthew P.Hubert Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Northcut Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Terry Clayton Dabney Foundation for Le Hoang Foundation, Inc. The Benefit Store, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. William P.Huckin, III J.M. Haggar, Jr. Family Foundation Ann Davis and Edward H. Thomas Kids with Cancer Le Petit Salon #364 The Boone Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Odlozil Billie and Gillis Thomas Clements Foundation LegacyTexas Bank The Brad K. Heppner Family Trust Huemmer, Jr. Ms. Jann E. Okerlund Mr. and Mrs. Bob Titus Comerica Bank - Texas Les Femmes du Monde The Catholic Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Jared Olfers Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Trubitt Commercial Finance Association Llano Utility Services The Clampitt Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hull In Memory of Krissi Holman Ray and Adela Tsai - Southwest Chapter Lockheed Martin Missiles and The Constantin Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William P.Hull, Jr. Mr. Philip M. Orr, Jr. Mr. Jack A. Turpin Commercial Metals Company Fire Control The Crystal Charity Ball Clark and Tavia Hunt Ms. Maria Ortiz Mr. Nicholas Tyler Communities Foundation of Texas Love Life Foundation The Dallas Foundation Mr. Douglas H. Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Owen Mr. and Mrs. Rick L. Usrey Community Foundation of Lowdon Family Foundation The Dan and Martha Lou Beaird Mrs. Norma K. Hunt Dr. Geetha and Mr. Paul C. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Van Acker North Texas Luttrell Trust Foundation Mr. Thomas M. Hunt Pandian Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne R. CompuCom Systems, Inc. M. R. and Evelyn Hudson The Eleven Agency Mr. and Mrs. Todd M. Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Gerd Pasedag Van Besien CSC - Financial Services Foundation The Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Huntress Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Patrick Mrs. D'Ann D. Walker Currier Construction, Inc. Marie Keese Lelash Foundation, Inc. Family Foundation Kelly Vaughn Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Peinado Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Wallace Dallas Child Magazine Maverick Capital Charities Ltd. The Empowerment Project, Inc. Mr. Alan Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Penn Tommie Bradford Walton Dallas Father of the Year Mazuma Holding Corp. The Eugene McDermott Mr. Jose Jaramillo Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Todd Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Ward Awards Luncheon McCarty Family Foundation Foundation Mr. and Mrs. M. Nicholas Jent Mr. and Mrs. John T. Pickens Mrs. Joan Weil Dallas Jewish Community McKesson The First American Corporation Dr. and Mrs. Alvis F.Johnson, Jr. Jane and Charles Pierce Dr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Weinberg Foundation Mike Modano Foundation The Florence Foundation Mr. Elvis J. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Raymond D. Pittet Mr. and Mrs. Cam S. Welch Dallas Rotary Club Foundation Mizzou Alumni Association The Gerald J. Ford Family Ms. Jeanne R. Johnson Mr. J. B. Pogue Lisa and Jeff Wellen Darling Homes MMK Foundation Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Page Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Claude B. Prestidge Mr. and Mrs. David L. Whisenant David Chasey Photography Morton Feldman Family Foundation The Gil & Dody Weaver Dr. and Mrs. Richard E. Jones, III Mr. and Mrs. Will Pryor Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. White David M. Crowley Foundation National City Bank Foundation Ms. Mona Kanther Ms. Dorothy Pustejovsky Mrs. Heather Wilhite David McDavid Acura - Plano National Marrow Donor Program The Greg Mitchamore Memorial Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Kelley Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Quirk Mr. and Mrs. Andrew R. Williams Dean Foods Company NCT TRAC - North Central Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John S. Kemp, II Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Rabin Gretchen and J.L. "Sonny" Deloitte LLP TX Trauma Regional Advisory The Harlan B. and Amy B. Mr. and Mrs. Don F.Kendall Mr. and Mrs. William L. Rafkin Williams Design Industries Foundation Council Korenvaes Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James H. Keton Donna and Gary R. Rahn Mr. and Mrs. Joel T. Williams, III Fighting AIDS Neiman Marcus The Hersh Foundation Ms. Caryl M. Keys Mr. and Mrs. Arch H. Rambeau Mr. and Mrs. Max Williams Dick’s Sporting Goods Northcut Financial: The Hillcrest Foundation Mr. Leon D. King, III Mr. Leoncio Ramirez Mr. and Mrs. John C. Willingham Dr. Phil Foundation Financial Advisors The Impeccable Pig Mr. and Mrs. Roger King Mr. Jose Ramos Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Willis Ebby Halliday, Realtors Northern Texas PGA Junior Golf The Jack in the Box Foundation Mr. Homer J. Kirby Mr. and Mrs. Jodie N. Ray Sue and Don Wills Edith and Herbert Stehberg Foundation The Jess Merkle Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ben Koch Mr. and Mrs. Melvin L. Ray Mr. David H. Winans Charitable Trust Northpark Shopping Center The Luck Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Mark Koulogeorge Ann Duckett Reed Mr. and Mrs. James B. Woods, Jr. EDS Foundation Northwood Woman’s Club The Lupe Murchison Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Kowalski Mr. and Mrs. George T. Mr. Chad Woodward Edward and Wilhelmina Ovaltine The Marilyn and Sonny Oates Ms. Lisa M. Kupniewski Reynolds, III Ms. Sylvia Work Ackerman Foundation OxyChem Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Kusterer Mr. and Mrs. Bill D. Richards Mr. and Mrs. Phillip D. Worthen Employees Community Fund of PageSoutherlandPage, LLP The New York Community Trust Joyce and Larry Lacerte Mr. Larry Richter Denise and Geoff Yates Boeing Company-Richardson Park Place Dealerships The Perot Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Lafitte Ms. Carolyn S. Rider Mr. and Mrs. John F.Young Employees Community Fund of Passage Events The Pogue Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John L. Lancaster, III Mr. and Mrs. David S. Riemer Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Young Boeing Company Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty The Potter’s House of Dallas, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Landen Dr. and Mrs. Leonard M. Riggs, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Zellers Employees of McCormick Flavor Foundation The Purple Balloon Dr. N. Louis Lane, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. W. Steves Ring Mr. Dan Zheng and Division-Dallas Pauline Allen Gill Foundation Foundation, Inc. Mr. Mitchel LaRocca, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Ms. Sue Chien EnCana Cares (USA) Foundation Pediatric Associates of Dallas The Robert J. and Helen H. Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Lauinger Robinson, II *Deceased EnerQuest Corporation Pediatric Dentistry of The Glaser Family Foundation Mr. H. Ward Lay, Jr. Mr. Pablo Rodriguez Engibous Family Foundation Woodlands, P.C. The Rudman Family Mr. Gregory Le Vezu Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Rose, III Equine Medical Associates, PA Perkins-Prothro Foundation The Sarah Hollins Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David Lee Mr. Francisco Rubio COMMUNITYCIRCLE Eunice S. Justice Trust Phoenix Property Company The Staubach Company Dr. and Mrs. Brett D. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Hugh W. Rucker Children’s acknowledges each Fannie and Stephen Kahn PlainsCapital Bank The Theodore and Beulah Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Lee In Honor of Blake Landua and association, corporation, private Charitable Foundation Plano Sunrise Rotary Club Beasley Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Turner Mark Deramee foundation and organization Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Plano Tennis Center, Inc. The Wachovia Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Christian W. LeLash Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Rudner for its gifts of $1,000 or more in Finkelstein Partners Ltd. Pollock Foundation The Food Allergy & Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Lentzsch Dr. Richard N. Rudnicki and 2008. First American Real Estate Preston North Lion's Club Anaphylaxis Network Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Levy Mrs. Gail M. Bohdan Information Services, Inc. ProComputing Services, Inc. Thompson & Knight Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Milton P.Levy, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Tim Ryan 6 Day Dental & Orthodontics First Baptist Dallas Progressive Services, Inc. Thompson & Knight, LLP Mr. John C. Lewis William Ryan Homes Abbott Laboratories FKP Architects, Inc. Raymond James Charitable Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy Mr. and Mrs. Rick J. Link Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Ryburn Acron Flooring Services, Ltd. Endowment Fund United Healthcare of Texas, Inc. Mr. Michael Lister Mr. Paul Sack ADL High Voltage, Inc. Folsom Charitable Foundation, Inc. Raymond James Financial, Inc. United Way of Mr. and Mrs. John P.Locke Mr. Joseph A. Salgado Adolfson & Peterson Construction Frost Bank RBC Dain Rauscher Central New Mexico Mr. and Mrs. Timothy W. Looney Mr. Mark Salmon Advanced Neuromodulation Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. RGK Foundation United Way of Kaufman County Ms. Angela M. Loza Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Salzberger Systems, Inc. Garland Soccer Association Mark Richardson-North Dallas United Way of Ms. Pilar G. Lozano Ms. Judy Sanders in honor of AEGON Direct Marketing Deramee Cup Tri Delta Alumnae Chapter Metropolitan Dallas, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis L. Lutes Jessica Sanders Services, Inc. GEICO Riggs Family Foundation United Way of Tarrant County Rebecca and Bobby Lutz Mr. Nicholas Sandoval, Jr. Affiliated Communications, Inc. Georg Fischer Connectra, LLC Romano Enterprises United Way of Tri-State In Memory of Russ Mahlke Mr. Prabhu Sankaran and Mrs. AGC of Texas Gilbane Building Company Rowlett Lions Club USA Mobility Wireless, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Vanitha Prabhakaran Agility Communications Give With Liberty Rudy Mitchell Investments Vanguard Charitable Endowment Mahowald Carol and Skipp Schauer Group LLC Granite Properties, Inc. Ruth C. and Charles S. Sharp Program Mr. and Mrs. David R. Mann Ms. Elizabeth Schimmel Aline K. Porter Guaranty Bank Foundation, Inc. Varrichio Family Foundation Ms. Rebeca Marez Mr. and Mrs. Alan C. Schoellkopf Charitable Lead Trust Guns and Hoses Foundation Safe Kids Worldwide Verizon Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John H. Martin Dr. and Mrs. Martin A. Allergies InCourage H. Ward Lay Foundation Salina Regional Health Center Vin and Caren Prothro Mr. Richard Martin Schuepbach AllianceBernstein Hall Financial Group Sam’s Club Foundation Foundation Mr. Daryl Martini Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Schwab, Jr. Allied Advertising, Halliburton Company Sayles | Werbner W. P.and Bulah Luse Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Jeff and Kim Scrivener Public Relations Harry S. Moss Foundation Sears Holding Company Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club Matthews, Jr. Mr. and Ms. Charles P.Scullion Amelia Lay Hodges 2002 Harry S. Moss Heart Trust SEK Enterprise LLC Wells Fargo Community Dr. William Mauch Ms. Lynda L. Scurlock Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Heart of Gold Foundation Seven Bar Enterprises, Inc. Support Campaign Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Searcy, Jr. American Airlines, Inc. Hicks Sports Group, LLC Sigma Sigma Sigma Foundation Welwood Family Foundation McClendon Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sender American Girl Highland Park Presbyterian Church 2008 Love Field Golf Classic: Westbrooks Dugger & Jennifer Lynn Stroud Mrs. Adele Seybold American Legion Auxiliary Unit140 Highland Park United Methodist Hosted by Westbrooks Financial Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. McCord Mr. and Mrs. Mark Shepherd, Jr. American Legion Auxiliary #310 Highside Capital Management, LP Signature Flight Support William and Sylvia Zale Mr. Jonathan B. McDougal Mr. Steve Shrader American Legion Auxiliary DBA Hillcrest Foundation Skidaway Foundation Mr. Garrick W. McDuffie Mr. and Mrs. David W. Shuford 8/40 Salon 108 HKS Architects Sodexho Healthcare Services William Noble Rare Jewels Mr. and Mrs. A. Patrick McEvoy Ms. Alexandra H. Sizemore ARAMARK Healthcare Horace C. Cabe Foundation Southwestern Medical Foundation William Ryan Homes Mr. and Mrs. Brian McFarlane Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Sloan Atmos Energy Corporation Houston Christian Foundation Southwestern Toy & Hobby Women’s Auxiliary to Mr. and Mrs. James J. McGinley, III Ms. Brenda L. Smith Austin and Pauline Neuhoff Hunt Construction Association Children’s Medical Center Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. McGuire Marina and David Smith Foundation Integrity Golf Solutions Speedway Children’s Charities - of Dallas Ms. Marilyn D. McJimsey Don and Betty Smith Austin Commercial, Inc. Interstate Battery System of Texas WorldVentures Holdings, LLC Drs. Karen and Robert Meador Ms. Elaine M. Smith Ayco Charitable Foundation America, Inc. Spirit Halloween Superstores LLC W.R. Starkey Mortgage Mr. Walter L. Meclazcke Mr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Smith Balfour Beatty Construction Irving Healthcare Foundation Sprinkles Cupcakes Community First Foundation

82 childrens.com/give Yim’s Tae Kwon Do Fort Worth Museum of Science Studio Movie Grill DOWNTOWNDALLAS Beth and Bryan Thomas Sally Dutter and History Clint Sumrow Ebby Halliday, REALTORS Thompson & Knight, LLP Ann McCurdy Four Seasons Resort and Club Tangle Ridge Golf Club First Baptist Dallas Tom Thumb Paige McDaniel MATCHING GIFTS Dallas Terry Ulrich Jewelers Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. True.com JoAnne Moore Children’s extends special thanks Frontiers of Flight Museum Texas Star Golf Course J&S Audio Visual Services Value Incorporated Brandy Ratchford to the local and national Ms. Jill Gill Texas Woman's University Land Rover Dallas-Frisco Walker Sewell LLP Lizzie Routman corporations that matched the Glen Garden Country Club Pioneer Golf Course The Magnolia Hotel Charlya and Mike Ward Karee Sampson gifts its employees made to Gleneagles Country Club The Adolphus McKesson WhiteHorse Capital Partners, L.P. Beth Wallace support our patients in 2008. Golf Summerlin The Lancaster Shakespeare Club MetroPCS Joanie Williams Judy Werner Goo Goo Eyes The Sixth Floor Museum at Ovaltine Angie Worthen AT&T Foundation Hackberry Creek Country Club Dealey Plaza Park Place Dealerships Aon Foundation Ms. Joyce L. Hall The Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa PlainsCapital Bank Special thanks to the Women’s AXA Financial Companies HALL Wines Tiffany & Company Reel FX and Radium Auxiliary for nearly 50 years CHILDREN’SMIRACLE Bank of America Mr. Timothy Headington Timarron Country Club Six Flags Over Texas of service to help support NETWORK Countrywide Care Heavenly Hugs Tony’s Wine Warehouse & Sodexho Health Care Services Children’s patients and their Thanks to each of the Del Monte Foods Henry’s Homemade Ice Cream Restaurant Starbucks Coffee Company families. corporations and organizations Dell Computer Corporation Heroes for Children The Trails at Frisco Texas Discovery Gardens that have given to support Deloitte & Touche High Point All Attitude The Tribute Thompson & Knight, LLP 2008-09 Board of Directors Children’s through Children’s Electronic Check Clearing House High Point Animal Hospital TNT Custom Creations Univision 23 Nancy Monning Miracle Network. Organization High Point Ball Busters Twin Lakes Golf Course, Inc. Wal-Mart/SAM’S CLUB President Ericsson, Inc. High Point Dream Team Urban Taco - Modern Mexican WFAA-TV Kim LeMay $200,000+ Expedia, Inc. High Point Greenhill Roadies Restaurant President-Elect Wal-Mart /Sam’s Club ExxonMobil Foundation High Point Mixed Nuts W Dallas - Victory 103.7 Lite FM - Radiothon First Data Corporation High Point Net Rushers Warwick Melrose Hotel WOMEN’SAUXILIARY Paula Dross Frito-Lay Hight Point Net Returns Waterview Golf Club TOCHILDREN’SMEDICAL Treasurer $50,000 - $100,000 GE Foundation High Point Park Tennis Center Ms. Karen Newman White CENTEROFDALLAS Lee Gleiser Dallas Credit Unions Geico Philanthropic Foundation High Point X-girls Women’s Auxiliary to Children’s The Women’s Auxiliary raises Treasurer-Elect Marriott International Goldman, Sachs & Co. Hilton Anatole Hotel Medical Center of Dallas funds to support Children’s Cynthia Looney RE/MAX Harley-Davidson Financial Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre Woodbridge Golf Club through five major efforts: The Recording Secretary Valero Services Hilton Dallas Park Cities Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wooden Children’s Corner Gift Shop; IBM Corporation Horseshoe Bay Resort Ms. Elizabeth J. Wright sales of greeting cards; sales of Jane Switzer $10,000 - $49,999 Illinois Tool Works Foundation Hotel Intercontinental of Dallas Write Selection cookbooks; Breakfast with Santa; Corresponding Secretary ACE Hardware Lexmark International, Inc. House of Blues Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Wyly, Jr. and Family Night at Six Flags. To Cindy McGeoch Brookshire’s Grocery Stores Maverick Capital Charities Ltd. Mr. Tim Inserra Mr. Nick Young the many sponsors who sup- Parliamentarian Goody’s Merrill Lynch & Co. Japon Steakhouse and Sushi ported the Auxiliary’s fundraising Kroger Foundation, Inc. JD’s Chippery efforts in 2008, thank you. 2008-09 Committee Chairs Love’s Country Stores Microsoft Gene and Jerry Jones Family/ 2008 EVENT SPONSORS Advisory RE/MAX Dallas Suburbs Mobil Dallas Cowboy Charities Children’s receives widespread Sponsors Cindy McGeoch NFL Films Junior League of Richardson, Inc. support from throughout the 94.9 FM KLTY $5,000 - $9,999 PepsiCo Foundation Mrs. Sahar Kazemi community. Thanks to those Allie Beth Allman & Associates Advocacy Dairy Queen The Boston Consulting Group Dr. Mark H. Kogut who thoughtfully sponsor our Angiel Electrical Construction Kim LeMay Foresters The IAC Foundation, Inc. Kohl’s Department Stores anchor events. Corporation Breakfast with Santa Kiwanis International The Meadows Foundation, Inc. L’Amour Des Fleurs, Inc. Anonymous (3) Stephanie Carvell Lone Star Credit Union The Neiman Marcus Group Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort Children’s Medical Center B. C. Williams Bakery Service, Inc. Terri Patrick Cox MORARS at the Motorplex The Prudential Foundation Le Peep Chip Moody Golf Classic Bailey, Crowe & Kugler Cookbook NHRA Verizon Foundation Lingerie Collection American Airlines Balfour Beatty Construction Angela Burke RE/MAX DFW Associates I Wachovia Foundation Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie Adolfson & Peterson Construction Bank of America Barbie Cobb RE/MAX DFW Associates III Los Rios Country Club Affiliated Communications, Inc. Beaird Commercial Realty Texans Credit Union GIFTSINKIND Marquis Management Alliance Data The Bee Family Deck the Hospital Halls Underwater Explorer It is with many thanks that Marriott Dallas/Plano at Legacy ARAMARK Healthcare Bob Lilly Professional Promotions Melanie Jackson United Supermarkets/ Children’s recognizes each Town Center Austin Commercial, Inc. Kasey and Bo Bond Meredith McBee Market Street of the following individuals and Marriott Hotel DFW Airport Balfour Beatty Construction Browning Enterprises, Inc. Deck the Hospital Halls-Elect organizations for its support in Mariano Martinez Borden Milk Products, LP Cain Capital, LLC Margaret Cowan $1,000 - $4,999 2008. McKinney Youth Theatre CompuCom Capstar Commercial Real Estate Jenny Esquivel American Airlines Federal Credit Medieval Times Dinner & CSC Services Gifts Union III Forks Tournament FKP Architects, Inc. Nancy and Clint Carlson Gini Florer American Legion Ms. Judy Adams The Melting Pot Restaurant GEICO CEB Construction Boston’s Gourmet Pizza Addison Improv Comedy Club Mirabelle Restaurant LegacyTexas Bank Charis Portrait Studio Gift Shop CEFCO Adventure Landing Ms. Kelly Moore Maverick Capital Charities Ltd. Tracy Cheathan Carolyn Lane Clubcorp Charity Classic American Airlines Muslim American Society - OxyChem Chicago Title Insurance Company Anne Massey Combined Federal Campaign Animal Crackers Youth Department PageSoutherlandPage, LLP Christ the King Catholic Church Gift Shop Treasurer Crossmark Anne La Croix Neiman Marcus Park Place Dealerships Coca-Cola Enterprises Bottling Nancy Gottsacker Express Employment Anthropologie Mr. and Mrs. Norman Neuweiler PlainsCapital Bank Companies Holiday and Professionals Highland Park Village Nick & Sam’s Sayles│Werbner Terri Patrick Cox All-Occasion Cards Extra Life for Kids Art-A-Rama Plano Northwestern Mutual Financial St. Andrews Products Cross My Heart Cards Becky Gould Fred’s Stores Arthur Murray Dance Studio Network Terrace House Kathryn and Michael Crow Beth Mikeska Golf Galaxy AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic Omni Mandalay Hotel USA Mobility Wireless, Inc. Kathy and Harlan Crow Great Clips Babolat P.F. Chang’s China Bistro WFAA-TV Dallas Baseball Academy of Holiday and IHOP Bachendorf’s Mrs. Wendy Piltz Texas, Inc. All-Occasion Cards – Elect Panda Express Mr. and Mrs. Rich Bailey Plano National Charity League Children Helping Children Ann and John Delatour Cari Marchetto Race with Trace Baker’s Ribs, Inc. Pocket Sandwich Theatre Junior Singles Tennis Tournament Rebecca and James Farnsworth Shay Sides RE/MAX DFW Associates II Bandito’s Tex-Mex Cantina Prestonwood Country Club - Presenting Sponsor The Family of Joe E. Funk, Jr. Hospitality RE/MAX DFW Associates V Billy Bob’s Texas The Hills Capital One Bank Carolyn and Randy Garrett Ruthie Lightbourn RE/MAX DFW Associates VI Ms. Lyndsay Bland Law offices of Harold B. Price Gene & Jerry Jones Family Betsy Ramey RE/MAX Premier Babolat Blinc Ms. Kayei Prince Charities Membership RE/MAX Premier IV Blue Goose Cantina Prospering Farm, Inc. BestofDFW.com Graham Investments, Inc. RE/MAX Premier Properties I Central Market - Plano Kathleen Neely Buffet Partners, LP The Purple Cow Diner Grand Homes Kathy Sockwell Security Finance Ms. Nel Byrd Q Shirtmakers Dallas Stars Sarah L. Helfand, M.D. Cafe Pacific, Inc. Radisson Hotel & Suites Dallas Granite Properties, Inc. Hip Hip Hooray Children’s Wear New Year’s Eve/ Candice White Photographer Love Field Head HKS Architects Mother’s Day Dinners Every attempt has been made to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Canterbury Rafa’s Cafe Mexicano Keith A. Heier, MD Horchow Family Charitable Trust Leslie Baker ensure the accuracy of this list. 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1 A combination of a love for writing and story- eral awards in the All Navy Photography Com- 6 Jeremy Harris took up photography on an ad- telling led Erin Blinn to photography. A manda- petition and the Interservice Photography Com- venture in Central and South America in be- tory photojournalism class put a camera in her petition. In 2004, Curtis joined Children’s tween semesters at the University of Texas. It hands, and passion for creating storytelling im- Medical Center, becoming the hospital’s first was there that he discovered clicking a camera ages was born. She works alongside fellow staff photographer. Curtis’ love for children and was easier than a written journal. The results photographer Amber Gober in family, lifestyle Children’s drives his desire to share the hospi- were encouraging. After several attempts in the and wedding photography. Their work at Fly tal’s legacy and the vision not just of today but business world, Harris found himself back in Photography combines their distinct but compli- tomorrow. Dallas, assisting and teching for photographers mentary styles for their clients throughout the all over the country. He is currently working at DFW area. 4 Daniel Driensky has been interested in mak- ImageTap studios where he has collaborated ing art for as long as he can remember. He has with top agencies to help convey brand mes- 2 Melanie Burford, a photographer at The been around photography his whole life due to sages with a fresh, unique perspective. Jeremy is Dallas Morning News since 2003, is known for his father Dana Driensky being a professional married and enjoys being a kid with his 4-year- her perseverance in pursuing a story and her photographer since before he was born. Daniel old daughter Emma. profound empathy for her subjects. Burford was first took interest in his own photography in part of the team of The Dallas Morning News 2000 where he enrolled in his first black-and- 7 Mei-Chun Jau is an Emmy Award-winning photographers who received the 2006 Pulitzer white darkroom class in high school, and has journalist working in video and still photography. Prize for breaking news photography for their been making pictures ever since. He went on to A Taiwan-born immigrant proudly naturalized to visual narrative of the devastation wrought by study photography and graphic design at Rich- the United States at the age of 3, Jau presently Hurricane Katrina. Her work also has been rec- land College in Dallas and The University of works as a freelance videographer, video editor ognized by numerous other organizations and Texas at Arlington. He currently works in Dallas and still photographer. She lives in Dallas with competitions. Burford’s career began in New as a professional event and portrait photogra- her energetic 4-year-old son. Over a career Zealand in 1990 at the Ashburton Guardian pher. He aspires to travel with his camera, mak- spanning 14 years, Jau has won numerous where she won Qantas Junior Photographer of ing portraits of people all over the world. awards, including from the Society of News De- the Year before attending the 1992 Missouri sign for her work alongside fellow photojournal- Photo Workshop. Back home in New Zealand 5 Amber Gober’s interest in photography came ist Kim Ritzenthaler in chronicling the life of she worked for eight years at The Evening Post out of loving the darkroom in high school. An Egyptian conjoined twins separated in a surgery before leaving for America in 1999. appreciation for vision and process came from at Children’s Medical Center in 2003. working with film and developing her own im- 3 Louis Curtis was first introduced to photog- ages. She has four children who inspire her daily 8 Jill Johnson is a Fort Worth-based freelance raphy as a senior in high school, purchasing his with their laughs, cries, words and love. She has photographer specializing in photojournalism, first 35mm camera prior to graduating in 1979. been a photographer for 10 years; however, travel, editorial and portraiture. She launched That same year he joined the US Navy as a Navy photography became her profession five years her freelance career in 2008 after 12 years as a Hospital Corpsman. He became aware of the ago when she and best friend Erin Blinn started staff photographer for the Fort Worth Star Navy’s Biomedical Photography School and was Fly Photography. They photograph love and life Telegram. Johnson has also been a staff photogra- accepted into its program in 1986. Curtis served at whatever stage they can — from newborns to pher for The Kansas City Star and worked as a as lead photographer at the National Naval Med- teens, couples and kids. “We are blessed to be production assistant for Austin-based photogra- ical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and at the able to see and capture so much beauty to- pher Zigy Kaluzny. Johnson graduated from the Naval Hospital Corpus Christi in Texas handling gether,” Gober says. University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor of numerous assignments for Navy Medicine Maga- journalism/photojournalism in 1994. zine and other Navy publications. He won sev-

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9 Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David in high school, he knew he wanted to pursue the along the Pacific and lived in various towns for Leeson began his career at the Abilene Reporter- craft professionally. Having received a bachelor three years, learning to meet people and photo- News in 1977. In 1982 he moved to New Or- of arts degree in photography from Texas graph along the way. He now works profession- leans as a staff photographer for the Times- Woman’s University in 2000, Pulido set out to ally in Dallas. Since then he has had major Picayune. He joined The Dallas Morning News in gain as much experience as possible in the real commissions resulting in extensive essays in sev- 1984 where he remained until 2008 as both a world of professional photography by working eral locations including Washington D.C.; New photographer and videographer. His assignments with veterans of the Texas photography scene. York City; New Orleans; Bay Minette, Alabama; for newspapers took him to more than 60 coun- But he quickly transitioned from photographer’s Marfa, Texas; and Dallas, where he resides tries and numerous world conflicts. He now assistant to landing his own clients shooting edi- today. owns Protégé Films, a video production com- torial, commercial, and fashion assignments for a pany specializing in documentary films. Leeson variety of local and national clients and publica- 14 Dallas native Allison V. Smith took her first was a finalist for the Pulitzer three times prior to tions. In 2008, Pulido joined Children’s Medical snapshot when she was 8 years old, and she’s winning the award in 2004 along with colleague Center as a photographer. He also is a photogra- been taking pictures ever since. After earning a Cheryl Diaz Meyer for photographs on the front phy staff member at NorthLake College in Irv- degree in journalism from Southern Methodist lines with the US Army 3rd Infantry Division ing, Texas, and has taught photography for University, she worked as a staff photographer during the invasion of Iraq. He also has won nu- Tarrant County College and Dallas County Com- for newspapers such as The Dallas Morning News, merous regional, state and national awards. Lee- munity College District. the Fort Worth Star Telegram and the Santa Fe son is a graduate of Abilene Christian University, New Mexican. In 2004 she become a freelance is married and has five children. 12 Kim Ritzenthaler has been a professional photographer, yet her newspaper experience photographer for more than 15 years. Her continues to make itself evident in her portraits, 10 Scott Lewis is a freelance photographer clients have included People magazine, the New magazine work and personal art projects. based in Philadelphia, PA, where he lives with his York Times, the Washington Post and a wide array Smith’s portraits have appeared in a number of wife and son. Lewis spent 15 years photograph- of industrial, educational and corporate publica- publications, including the New York Times, Spirit ing for newspapers across the United States be- tions. She worked as a photographer for The and Dwell Magazine, and her Marfa, Texas, series fore going out on his own. Lewis’ work has been Dallas Morning News from 1993-2004. Her work has been exhibited at galleries in Dallas, Atlanta, published by most major American newspapers for the newspaper earned her many major na- Houston and Los Angeles. and magazines including having worked on as- tional and regional awards. Many also know signment for National Geographic magazine. He Ritzenthaler worldwide as an accomplished na- 15 Lara Solt joined The Dallas Morning News as has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize ture photographer whose specialty is finding the a staff photographer in 2003. Her photographs, and has won more than 60 major awards for his extraordinary details of the natural world in essays and multimedia projects have intimately photography. Lewis was born in New York City urban environments. She has a bachelor of arts explored the lives of everyday subjects, from but grew up in Dallas, and attended the Univer- degree in photography from Texas A&M in Com- victims of violence to those wounded by war. sity of Texas for undergraduate studies where he merce. She also works with her husband, David Solt’s in-depth storytelling, on these issues fell in love with the power of photography later Leeson, in documentary filmmaking. They live in among others, has been recognized with an pursuing a master of arts degree in photojournal- Dallas with their two children. Emmy from the Lone Star Chapter of the Na- ism from the University of Missouri School of tional Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Journalism. 13 Richard Sharum grew up in Corpus Christi, Advanced Media Awards, as well as numerous Texas, but moved to Dallas in 1996. From there other national and regional awards. Solt is a 11 Juan Pulido already had a fascination with he started his artistic career painting and playing graduate of Ohio University’s School of Visual photography’s ability to tell a personal story. music, but it wasn’t until moving to the West Communications. Upon completing his first photojournalism class Coast that he took up photography. He traveled

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Children’s Medical Center is a not-for-profit pediatric hospital system with two campuses — Dallas and Legacy. Children’s is governed by a community volunteer board. Children’s is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and is UT Southwestern’s primary pediatric teaching hospital. Children’s is accredited by The Joint Commission and approved by the Council of Medical Education of the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association. Children’s also is accredited by a variety of educational programs in related healthcare fields. Children’s is a member of the American Hospital Asso- ciation, the Texas Hospital Association, the Children’s Hospital Association of Texas, the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions and the Council of Teaching Hospitals.

Children’s Medical MEDICAL STAFF EX OFFICIO MEMBERS
Barbara Stuart Center OFFICERS Dan Chapman Smokey Swenson Board of Directors Immediate Past President Julio Pérez Fontán, M.D. Michael Tanner Michael E. Brown, M.D. Joel T. Williams, III Burton Tansky DIRECTORS Richard “Dick” Terrell President Children’s Medical John P. Thompson, Jr. Chairman Zora R. Rogers, M.D. John L. Adams Center Foundation
Gifford Touchstone President-Elect Board of Trustees Suzy Welfelt Vice Chairman Christopher S. Abel, M.D. Jimmy Westcott Tom Baker TRUSTEES EMERITUS
Joel T. Williams, III Surgical Representative at Ann Goddard Corrigan Sue Wills William A. Blase Large 2008-2009 James B. Goodson
Darrell W. Wootton Robert Chereck Alan C. Farrow-Gillespie, M.D. H. Grady Jordan, Sr. Sharon Worrell Michael Dardick Medical Representative at H. Leslie Moore, M.D. Terry Worrell Christopher J. Durovich Large 2008-2009 Ann Duckett Reed Sandra Estess Korgun Koral, M.D. Sarah M. Seay EX OFFICIO MEMBERS Elba Garcia, D.D.S.
David W. Biegler Kathleen Gibson Surgical Representative at TRUSTEES
Christopher J. Durovich Elaine Nelson Large 2007-2008 Chairman Kim Gleason David R. Weakley, M.D. Marcia Page
Dan Chapman Gretchen and Chris Groves Gifford Touchstone Medical Representative at John L. Adams Lucille Grubb Large 2007-2008 Marilyn Augur Cindy McGeoch EX OFFICIO MEMBERS Joe B. Neely, M.D. Christopher S. Abel, M.D. Martha Lou Beaird Nancy Monning M. Douglas Baker, M.D. Secretary/Treasurer Samuel J. Beard
Connie O’Neill David W. Biegler Maeve Sheehan, M.D. David Beuerlein Robin Ziegler Dan Chapman Sheila Beuerlein Cordelia Boone Robert Foglia, M.D. MEDICAL EXECUTIVE

Foundation Executive Committee Julio Pérez Fontán, M.D. COMMITTEE Lloyd S. Bowles, Jr. Zora R. Rogers, M.D. Chairman Susan E. Brown Julio Pérez Fontán, M.D. Bill Carter Marie Crowe INVITED GUESTS R. Brooks Cullum, Jr. Ron Anderson, M.D. Thomas Zellers, M.D.
Zora R. Rogers, M.D. Sissy Cullum George Lister, M.D. Scott Dabney Michael E. Brown, M.D. Willis Maddrey, M.D. Ann Delatour Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D. Christopher S. Abel, M.D.
Sandra Estess Maeve Sheehan, M.D. Lance Etcheverry ASSOCIATES BOARD Roberts P. Foglia, M.D. Susan Farris Peter Altabef M. Douglas Baker, M.D. Steve Folsom Robert M. Farrell Joe B. Neely, M.D. Gerald J. Ford Lois Finkelman Korgun Koral, M.D. Linda Gibbons Monte E. Ford David R. Weakley, M.D Leslie Greco Craig Franklin Alan C. Farrow-Gillespie, M.D
Steven Gruber Richard Knight, Jr. Desmond B. Henry, M.D. Cindy M. Gummer Thomas Leppert Paul W. Sheeran, M.D.
Randi Halsell William A. McWhirter George Lister, M.D. Juli Harrison J. Marc Myers Beverly B. Rogers, M.D. Susan Hoag Albert Niemi, Ph.D. Nancy K. Rollins, M.D.
Joyce Houlihan Richard L. Rogers Carolyn Wilson, D.D.S. Ward Hunt Marcos Ronquillo Gene Jones Paul Sadler MEDICAL EXECUTIVE Ken Klaveness Florence Shapiro COMMITTEE
Caren Kline Patrick B. Shelby EX OFFICIO MEMBERS Tracey Kozmetsky Julia Wellborn Christopher J. Durovich C.S. Lee Roy Heyne, M.D.
Anne Logan SENIOR LEADERSHIP Douglas G. Hock Dale Hawkins Long President and CEO Mary Stowe, RN, MSN George Mason Christopher J. Durovich Sarah Dacey, M.D. Karen Matthews Albert McClendon Executive Vice President of Karen McClard, M.D. Damien Mitchell, M.D. Jill McClung Medical Affairs P. Mike McCullough Julio Pérez Fontán, M.D. ADMINISTRATIVE Gail McDonald John P. McNamara MEMBERS Senior Vice Presidents Melanie Medanich Ray R. Dziesinski James W. Herring Jerry M. Meyer James W. Herring Anne E. Long, RN, JD Vikki Moody Douglas G. Hock Fiona Howard Levy, M.D. Dian Moore Patricia U. Winning Anne Roberts, CPMSM, Ginny Moore CPCS Robert Morgan, D.D.S. Vice Presidents Randall Muck Pamela Arora Children’s Health John B. Muns David G. Biggerstaff Services of Texas Burk Murchison Christopher J. Dougherty Jan Myers Jolynn Hanson HONORARYLIFE Crickett Rollins Olmsted Brett Daniel Lee MEMBERS Stephen C. Owen Fiona Howard Levy, M.D. Gene H. Bishop
Teresa Parravano Anne E. Long, RN, JD Joel T. Williams, III Chris Patrick Elizabeth Field MacKay Pamela Dealey Petty Karen Meador, M.D. DIRECTORS John T. Pickens Thomas Zellers, M.D. Chairman Claude Prestidge, M.D. David W. Biegler Deborah Price, Au.D. Chief Nursing Officer Debbie Raynor Mary Stowe, RN, MSN John L. Adams Raymond Reed, Ph.D. Paul Bass
Richard L. Rogers Director of Medical Ann Goddard Corrigan Steven M. Rudner Services Mardie Schoellkopf M. Douglas Baker, M.D. Christopher J. Durovich Sandra Estess Betty Schultz John Field Scovell Director of Surgical Richard Knight, Jr. P. Mike McCullough
Debbie Scripps Services Ric Scripps Robert Foglia, M.D. Connie O’Neill Debbie Scripps John R. Sears, Jr. Barbara Stuart Mary Louise Sinclair Senior Directors Frank Sloan Mazie Jamison Gifford Touchstone Darrell W. Wootton Sandra Snyder Nancy Templin Robert C. Stegall Sally Seay Stout

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