June 25, 2026

Where Personal Story Meets Purpose

A patient access representative who’s the father of a child with autism uses lived experience to connect with families As the dad of a daughter with autism, Garwin Enriquez knows how overwhelming a diagnosis can feel. He remembers the uncertainty, the questions and the effort it took to coordinate care and support. That experience shapes…

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March 22, 2026

From Patient to Physician: A childhood cancer diagnosis and care at Rady Children’s shaped a young doctor’s career

Turning a Diagnosis Into a Calling A childhood cancer diagnosis and care at Rady Children’s shaped a young doctor’s career When Alexis Doll was 15, her life changed forever. After months of persistent pain in her right knee, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. She was referred to the Peckham Center…

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December 17, 2025

Getting to Know: Justin Ryan, Ph.D.

Director, 3D Innovations (3DI) Lab at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego Justin Ryan blends art and science in a way few others do. With a background in intermedia art and biomedical engineering, he leads Rady Children’s 3DI Lab — a space where creativity meets clinical care. His work helps bring clarity to complex medical conditions…

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December 11, 2025

Every Step Counts

Rady Children’s laces up its sneakers for the American Heart Association Heart & Stroke Walk When San Diego comes together to support heart health, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego leads the way. As a presenting sponsor of the American Heart Association’s San Diego Heart & Stroke Walk, the Hospital is taking meaningful steps toward preventing…

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October 6, 2025

A Legacy of Care: A Father-Daughter Duo at Rady Children’s

Dr. John Bradley and Dr. Erin Bradley share a mission—and a meaningful bond At Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego, some connections go beyond medicine. For John Bradley, MD, medical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and his daughter, Erin Bradley, MD, a critical care physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), working side by…

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January 17, 2023

Nurses Find Belonging, Inspiration at Rady Children’s

Not many people come home from work knowing they’ve made an impact on a person’s life. But at Rady Children’s Hospital, it’s an everyday feeling. Rady Children’s is supported by 1,500 nurses who help care for more than 280,000 patients each year. Although the diverse team members come from all walks of life and from…

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August 23, 2022

Nurses Share Top 3 Reasons to Join Team Rady

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a nurse at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego? We spoke with three nurses who transitioned from treating adults to kids, why they enjoy working at Rady Children’s…and why nurses should work here! If you are a nurse looking for a new adventure, check out the top…

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April 19, 2022

Getting to Know: Christina Baker, PsyD, clinical psychologist

The American Psychological Association recognizes the third week in April as Psychology Week. Psychologists often wear many hats and can specialize in health care, education, research, workplace improvement and technology. Psychologists at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego are working in both inpatient and outpatient settings to ensure they are meeting the behavioral health needs of patients…

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April 14, 2022

Poway Resident Is ‘the Rock’ at Rady Children’s Hospital

By Angela Brandt, Staff Writer, Poway News Chieftain Chris Abe is made for emergencies. Whether it’s a nurse being accidentally pricked by a needle or a worldwide pandemic, she is able to to remain calm and think of solutions under pressure. Her coworkers at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego say Abe is always available by…

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April 11, 2022

Getting to Know: Yesenia Mejia, PhD, trainee with San Diego LEND

Yesenia Mejia, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar at the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego. She received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is currently a trainee with the San Diego LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and…

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September 23, 2021

Getting to Know: Cassidy Callahan, Clinical Research Navigator

Ever wonder how medicine and science converge to create new opportunities and new hope for the tiniest patients around the world? Cassidy Callahan, Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego’s clinical research navigator, can certainly fill you in. Working in step with investigators and physician-scientists across Rady Children’s research team and partner organizations, Cassidy is a central part…

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May 20, 2021

Getting to Know: Keri Colio, AuD, CCC-A, Cochlear Implant Clinical Coordinator and Clinical Audiologist

Health care isn’t magic, but some aspects of the field can certainly feel that way. Take it from Keri Colio, AuD, CCC-A, cochlear implant coordinator and clinical audiologist with Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego’s Audiology Department: Her work revolves around helping children with hearing differences or hearing loss experience sound, often for the very first time.…

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March 30, 2021

Getting to Know: Sandy Mueller, LCSW, Senior Director of Behavioral Health Services

Mental well-being has increasingly become a major focus in our conversations about overall health, and for Sandy Mueller, LCSW, senior director of Behavioral Health Services at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, that’s a very good thing. Our whole-child approach means the team supporting children includes a growing list of care providers, including pediatricians; psychologists, psychiatrists and…

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December 15, 2020

Getting to Know: Hikosuke Leon, Environmental Services Attendant and Relief Lead

Photo taken before COVID-19 pandemic Keeping Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego’s hundreds of rooms and plentiful hallways clean is no small task, but the EVS team handles it like the professionals they are. Following specialized training and using specific chemical and disinfecting procedures (they even have a manual outlining steps and products), team members help to…

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September 14, 2020

Collaborating Against COVID-19

The world has learned a great deal about COVID-19 since the pandemic began, but a significant gap remains between what we know and what we need to know to fully prevent, treat and work to defeat this newfound viral foe. Medical and scientific research is the driving force behind progress, and experts from Rady Children’s…

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March 2, 2020

Getting to Know: Carlos Morfin, Action Station Chef

It’s been said that a good meal feeds the soul as well as the stomach, and for Carlos Morfin, one of the chefs behind the action stations in the Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego cafeteria, that sentiment drives everything he does on the job. While our clinical staff get lots of (well-deserved) recognition for their contributions…

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November 22, 2019

Intuitive Eating: Eat to Live or Live to Eat?

by Monica Wing, RD, CNSC, CLEC Everyone gets caught up in daily routines and multitasking, making it difficult to stop and listen to what our body really wants and needs. Fueling the body with food is a necessity and is important for many crucial physiological and chemical processes, but eating should also be a pleasurable…

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November 12, 2019

Getting to Know: Kim McNamara, RN, BSN, CDE — Diabetes Nurse Educator

With proper care, type 1 and type 2 diabetes are generally manageable conditions. Even so, treatment options are vast and care plans can be complex — a lot to navigate for anyone, especially a child. In Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego’s Division of Endocrinology/Diabetes, diabetes nurse educators like Kim McNamara, RN, BSN, CDE, (pictured on the…

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September 5, 2019

Getting to Know: Jenny Kim, MD — Director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center

Around the Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, Jenny Kim, MD, is a familiar face to patients and families, staff, and up-and-coming health care professionals alike. As director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and a clinical professor of pediatrics at University of California San Diego School of Medicine,…

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July 8, 2019

Getting to Know: Peter Chiraseveenprapund, MD — Pediatric Rheumatologist

Peter Chiraseveenprapund, MD, (you can call him “Dr. Chira”) is a man on a mission. He’s a pediatric rheumatologist at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, and cares for kids with conditions including juvenile arthritis, lupus and scleroderma. He’s an associate professor of clinical pediatrics at University of California San Diego School of Medicine. And he’s working…

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July 8, 2019

Celebrating 10 Years of Fresh Start Surgical Gifts at Rady Children’s

Over more than two decades, San Diego-based nonprofit Fresh Start Surgical Gifts has been enacting positive change throughout the local community, across the nation and even around the world. How? By offering underserved youth with physical differences — due to congenital conditions, trauma or health conditions — reconstructive surgeries and applicable health services, such as…

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May 6, 2019

The Wellness Team at Juvenile Hall: How Classes in Nutrition and More Aim to Shape Healthier Futures for Detained Youth

Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego’s Center for Healthier Communities (CHC) is home to nearly 20 initiatives that focus on building and maintaining healthy lifestyles from an early age. Through accessible, resource-rich programs that draw upon in-depth child and community health research, the CHC and its partners work to enact positive change all over San Diego, with…

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March 18, 2019

Heroes “fur” Real

There are few things cuter or more joy-inducing than dogs. Their ability to connect with humans: uncanny. Their cuddling prowess: unparalleled. And their positive effects on health: pretty darn undeniable. Scientific studies have shown that simply petting a pup increases one’s output of the feel-good hormones serotonin, oxytocin and prolactin, in turn reducing anxiety and…

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February 1, 2019

Getting to Know: Justin Ryan, Ph.D. – Director of the 3D Innovations Lab

Justin Ryan, Ph.D., is an artist — a very specialized, highly technical, life-improving artist. After all, as director of the new 3D Innovations (3DI) Lab at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, he and his team craft 3D models of hearts, brains, bones and more to streamline surgical plans and improve outcomes for even the Hospital’s most…

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December 21, 2018

Getting to Know: Karen Miller, B.S.N., R.N., C.E.N. – Neuro-Oncology Case Manager at the Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders

Karen Miller, B.S.N., R.N., C.E.N., (pictured in the birthday hat with some of her neuro-oncology teammates), has been a nursing pro for the past 12 years, and has been overseeing all aspects of brain tumor cases at Rady Children’s Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders since June 2018. We chatted with the San Diego…

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December 18, 2018

Rady Children’s ECMO Expertise Goes Global

George Sutherland, M.B.A., R.R.T.-N.P.S. (pictured middle right), is going places. And while he certainly excels in his role as Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego’s extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) coordinator, we mean this literally. That’s because in Nov. 2018, Sutherland led a group of Rady Children’s ECMO experts on a volunteer trip to China, where they helped…

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December 12, 2018

A Continuum of Care: Kelly’s Story

If you take a walk by our inpatient pharmacy on the weekend, it’s likely you’ll catch Kelly Chan, a 23-year-old Doctor of Pharmacy candidate at UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, hard at work as an intern. For Kelly, vying for this role was an easy decision — after all, Rady…

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November 21, 2018

The Bedtime Cart: Creating Sweeter Dreams for Rady Children’s Patients

It’s a Wednesday night. The lights in the Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego are low, and a lull has fallen over halls that were full of hustle and bustle just a few hours ago. But in the midst of the evening quiet, there’s still activity afoot. From patient…

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