Healthcare Heroes 2019
If you ask the men and women in these pages what makes a hero, they point to their teams and teammates and those faithfully...
Bruce Erickson: Cuddling and Caring for Newborns
Bruce Erickson had zero experience with newborn babies when he agreed to see if it was a good volunteering fit at Memorial Hospital. The...
David Steinbruner, M.D.: Serving and Leading
If you talk with Dr. David Steinbruner about why he’s a doctor, he tells stories about getting to meet a boy years after resuscitating...
Frederic Deleyiannis, M.D., M.Phil., M.P.H.: Reconstructing Dignity
Dr. Frederic Deleyiannis is not one to shrink from a challenge when it comes to restoring dignity for the disfigured. Dr. D., as he’s...
John Bealer, M.D.: Keeping Kids First
Dr. John Bealer saw the ups and downs of practicing medicine, growing up with a physician father. But ultimately, walking in his father’s footsteps...
Thomas Ridder, M.D., and M. Sean McKisic, M.D.: Partnering for Precision
Most brain surgeons have dealt with an acoustic neuroma before, but this large tumor was in an especially tricky spot: completely alongside the brainstem...
Dirk Pikaart, D.O.: Fighting for Life
Dr. Dirk Pikaart took an unusual path to medicine, initially working in construction trades. After returning to school, a career counselor inspired him that...
Brittany Nunez, Paramedic: Empowering Emergency Responders
Brittany Nunez has always gravitated toward helping when others would shy away. On hiking or climbing adventures, she instinctually became caretaker when an injury...
Doggy Day Out
You hear the howls, the barks, the whimpers of dogs in their chainlink kennels when you walk into an animal shelter. Then you lock...
Fall Fitness Hacks from Local Trainers
Between the end of summer and the approach of the holidays, it might be easy to let fitness fall to the wayside in favor...
