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For One Alumna, Financial Toxicity Is More Than Just Academic
In 2005, Fumiko Chino, MD’14, thought she had her future planned out. She was engaged to be married and was working in her dream job as an art director for a video animation company in Houston, Texas. “I got paid to watch cartoons for a living,” she says. “It was fun.”
Former All-American Georgia Beasley to Join Faculty
Georgia Beasley was a student-athlete at Duke when she met Sara, an 11-year-old girl, who was sitting on the bleachers at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The young girl was waiting for her father, who was late to pick her up from a Duke basketball summer camp. Beasley asked her to catch rebounds for her, and Sara happily agreed. Later, her father introduced himself as none other than Henry Friedman, MD, deputy director of the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke.
Alumni Spotlight - Fixing the Unimaginable
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.
Following in Dr. Joe’s Footsteps
Growing up in Fairmont, West Virginia, James R. Urbaniak, MD’62, HS’62-’69, was an active and athletic boy who dreamed of playing professional sports. Then, at the age of 7, he came down with rheumatic fever. For three months he was confined to his bed. He didn’t know when—or whether—he would be able to go back outside and play ball again. But there was one thing he did know he could count on.