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In 2020 Srinath Chinnakotla, MD, performed a dual liver-pancreas transplant on 14 year old Khloe Cox at M Health Fairview Pediatrics. Read the letter Khloe wrote to Chinnakotla after the life saving surgery. https://bit.ly/4cUG0Z5

Tumani Jackson, a graduate of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the University of Minnesota, wants to take her experience from working as an emergency and cardiac nurse to create a difference in health care. Read more about Tumani and how you can support students like her today! https://bit.ly/3YgUCNL

Mady Larson, a chemistry student at the University of Minnesota Duluth, is researching drought-tolerant plants and applying it to other crops. Learn more about his study and how you can support students like Mady by making a gift today! https://bit.ly/3Y7dnTV

Childhood friends, Larry Schneiderman and Jerry Vitek, reunite years after high school to take on Parkinson’s disease after Schneiderman was diagnosed in 2010. Read more to learn their story and how you can make a gift towards Parkinson’s disease research and care today. https://bit.ly/4chOzwL

Barbara Champlin started biking to raise funds for breast cancer in 2018 only to find out later that year that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Barbara was then introduced to University of Minnesota’s crowdfunding platform, URaiseMN, and now she fundraises for breast cancer research. Crowdfunding is an easy way to create customized fundraising pages for University and M Health Fairview causes. Create your own fundraiser now at: https://bit.ly/3VItvrR

About 250 baby raptors arrive at The Raptor Center during the spring and summer months in need of rehabilitation, and this work is nearly 100% donor-funded. If you'd like to support The Raptor Center Baby Shower, make a gift here today: https://bit.ly/3KT63Dt

Branden Moriarity, an associate professor of pediatric hematology and oncology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, is using adoptive cell therapy to help ill-equipped immune cells get into shape to fight back against cancer. Read more about his work and how you can make a gift to support his research today! https://bit.ly/4cluiWo

Thanks to the generosity of John Schwartz, a graduate from the School of Public Health, two new initiatives have been added to the MHA program with a DEI focus. This will give students the opportunity to gain experience with issues they will encounter working in healthcare. Learn more about John and the new initiatives today! https://bit.ly/4cDCkKL

Meet DJ Mad Mardigan, the official DJ for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Lynx, and now M Health Fairview Children's Hospital. Once a month Mad Mardigan, also known as Nick Dircz, visits the hospital to throw fun dance parties for the patients and families receiving treatment. Learn how you can make a gift today to support the DJ program along with other fun activities at Masonic today! https://bit.ly/3xcYS5K

Thanks to a partnership with RxART, a nonprofit organization that commissions established contemporary artists to transform children’s hospital settings into engaging and uplifting healing environments at no cost to the hospitals, the imaging suite at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain feels light and calming—even beautiful. Read more about the RxART project or make a gift to support innovative neurodevelopmental research and care at the MIDB. https://bit.ly/3yM5Qzg