Tucker Roussin is a four-year-old healthy boy. When his mother, Katie, was 20 weeks pregnant, he was diagnosed with a pericardial teratoma, an extremely rare tumor that grows on the lining surrounding the heart. The tumor was almost as large as his tiny heart, and it was growing quickly. Clinicians at the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) recommended an open fetal surgery to remove the tumor.

Two weeks before her 19th birthday, Samantha Casper, MSN’18, had a car accident. She was headed out for a night of fun with a friend, but ended up at the hospital. The doctors told her mother that Casper had suffered a traumatic brain injury and that she might not survive. Casper has survived, but she was told that due to short term memory loss, she could never go back to college. But she had other plans. “My mother instilled in me ‘Do more, be more, don't give up,’” says Casper.

The 2012 London Olympic Games played out like a fairy tale for Abby Johnston McGrath, MD’18. She stood on the podium, watching her country's flag rise up as they put a silver medal for synchronized diving around her neck, and she was inspired to continue diving at the 2016 Olympics.

Eight-year-old Shania Robinson's life was saved at Duke with a double transplant of a heart and kidney.

Samuel L. Katz, MD, described himself as merely a “young, enthusiastic, and naïve pediatrician” who “came along at the right time, in the right laboratory, with the right colleagues.” This is a remarkably humble reframing of the accomplishments of the pioneering virologist, pediatrician, and chairman emeritus and Wilburt C. Davison Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine.

Scholarship funds enabled wife and mother Sarah Free to pursue a full-time nursing degree at Duke, where she is following her passion to serve women and children.

When Paige Walker was diagnosed with cancer she knew she wanted to best care and treatment possible. She says Duke went far beyond her expectations.

As founder and leader of the World Bank’s Climate Change and Health Program, Timothy Bouley works with governments to safeguard their health programming against potential detrimental effects of climate change.

Vicki Grossmann is director of the Good Shepherd Clinic and Children’s Home in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She and her small medical team care for more than 2,000 indigent adults and orphan children a year.

Peter Morrisette and his family are grateful to Duke for saving his life after multiple tumors were discovered in his lower leg.