Facts about Children's Hospital Boston

Based in Boston. Serving the World

Since 1996, Miles for Miracles Team Boston has raised more than $11.8 million to support the areas of greatest need at Children’s Hospital Boston. Here at Children’s, life-changing care and worldchanging research come together to fuel breakthroughs that improve the lives of children and adults everywhere.

The following are examples of the impact Children’s has had, and continues to have, on Boston and around the world.

Life-Changing Care

Named among the top two children’s hospitals nationwide for 20 years, Children’s breadth and depth, and its ability to solve medical problems no other hospital will attempt draws patients from around the globe.

-World-leading programs in cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, orthopedic surgery, cancer,
advanced fetal care and neonatal care.

-Delivered life-saving care to more than 3,000 patients from beyond Massachusetts in 2007, including hundreds from abroad; Interpreter Services aided patient families 80,000 times, translating into 35 languages.

-Achieved Magnet status for nursing excellence—among only 5 percent of hospitals nationwide.

World-Changing Research

The nation’s premier pediatric research facility, Children’s receives more NIH funding than any other pediatric hospital and ranks fifth in NIH funding among all hospitals.

-World-class research team includes 13 Howard Hughes Medical Institute appointees, 7 Institute of Medicine members and 9 members of the National Academy of Sciences.

-Two Children’s scientists have won Nobel Prizes—John Enders, PhD, for culturing the polio virus, and Joseph E. Murray, MD, for the first successful organ transplant.

-Founded the world-changing field of angiogenesis, which holds promise for treating more than 60 diseases; drugs to control angiogenesis are now extending life for cancer patients and reversing blindness for macular degeneration patients.

-World leaders in stem cell research. In 2008 our scientists reprogrammed mature human cells to simulate embryonic stem cells, creating 10 disease-specific cell lines that will shed light on root causes of disease; all Children’s cell lines are available to the international research community.

-Home to top pediatric obesity experts whose groundbreaking studies have directly influenced public health policy.

Training

-Children’s is one of nation’s most competitive pediatric residency program: 1,000 applicants vie for 35 resident positions annually.

-Many of the nation’s division chiefs, department chairs and top academic researchers trained at
Children’s—we are an incubator for the star practitioners of the future.

Welcome!

Hello everyone!
I wanted to get this thing up and running so that anyone who is interested can start to follow my progress!

This upcoming April I am going to be running the Boston Marathon and I will be running with Children's Hospital Boston, a truly amazing hospital for kids and families and also for researchers and physicians. Those of you who know me might be aware of my other blog, HopeMD, a fabulous blog (if I do say so myself) about navigating the pre-med adventure in college and one that chronicles my desire to be a pediatrician down the road. So the Children's Hospital Boston Miles for Miracles Team really is the best possible fit for me to run this historical race!

I envision this blog to serve two major purposes. First and foremost it is to serve as a linking mechanism to my Miles for Miracles homebase website which is where you all can help me fundraise for hospital research. I need to raise $4000 (but $5000 is an even better goal!) and I need as much help from my support base as possible. If all my friends and family chip in, I'll have that goal met and more!

The second purpose of this blog is to update anyone who is interested in my path to becoming a marathon running rock star, of course! I'll begin really hardcore training toward the end of the year (think mid December or so) and that's when the posts here will shift a little from fundraising efforts to let you all know how bad my shin splints are! I plan on posting my training schedule and milage, plus links to relevant running information as well as information about what Children's Hospital Boston has going on (pretty innovative research going on over there!)

So that's that for now! I'll be tinkering around a bit, trying to get up some Miles for Miracles banners and whatnot with some very visible links to my fundraising page, haha.

Let me know if you are interested in helping me raise the goods for a really excellent cause!

Talk to you all soon,

~E