Healthcare

It was a good day for children. Children’s National and Johnson & Johnson Innovation collaborate on a pharmaceutical, device and technology incubator.

Healthy children come from healthy homes

Whether it is a city the size of D.C. or Dayton, healthy children come from healthy homes. Understanding the social determinants of good health doesn’t happen from reading a book. You really have to take a walk in someone else’s shoes to learn what it’s like…

Exchanging ideas and best practices in China

I will remember for a long time the connections I made on a recent visit to China. As part of the visit we joined together with a group of children’s hospital leaders to sign a ceremonial proclamation renewing our mutual dedication to investments in…

Storytelling with the spiritual leaders of our children’s hospitals

I talk a lot about the doctors and nurses who care for kids physically and emotionally. I also talk about the importance of the non-clinical staff like social workers and child life specialists, who try to make…

Economic Club’s 2018 Medical Panel on the future of medicine.

Last week I had the opportunity to talk with David Rubenstein as part of the Economic Club’s 2018 Medical Panel on the future of medicine. It was a super opportunity to bring pediatric health care and children’s needs into…

Midwest Opinion Radio

Last week, I had a great talk with Midwest Opinion Radio about Healing Children. We talked about my passion for children’s medicine, and why I think it is so important for parents to advocate for their child’s needs at the pediatrician and hospital the same way they advocate for them on…

I love running into patients like Dominic.

When writing Healing Children, my early drafts included numerous stories of brave, resilient kids and families — many more than we could cover in the space available in the book. When I started looking back, it was amazing to think of the many, many…

Press Ganey Executive Leadership Conference

I recently spoke at the Press Ganey Executive Leadership Conference about Delivering on the Promise of Patient- and Family-Center Care to an audience of nearly 300 health care executives. I was honored to be asked, given the esteemed list of attendees.

‘Wonderful’ screening, wonderful evening

Recently a number of us from Children’s National were privileged to be among the first people in country to see the new movie Wonder in the company of the movie’s director, Stephen Chbosky, and the book’s author, R.J. Palacio. It’s a terrific film depicting…