Alumni News
Working at the Top Hospital: Christine (Maus) Joyce ’99 Saint Anselm nurses who go on to careers at Massachusetts General Hospital are working at the hospital that leads the honor roll of the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals 2012-2013. One of those nurses is Christine (Maus) Joyce, whose photo happens to be on the cover of the report. Joyce has worked at MGH for nine years as a nurse in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, and enjoys working in the rapidly changing field of interventional cardiology. As part of a multidisciplinary team, she cares for patients undergoing coronary angioplasty and stenting for acute heart attacks; those with congenital, structural and valvular heart diseases; and those with critical heart failure. “It’s gratifying to watch patients come to our lab in such distress and leave well on their way to full recovery,” she says. “We see the results of our work almost immediately.”
Tears and Cheers for a Life-Saver: Katelyn D’Entremont ’09
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Bone Marrow Registration Drives at Saint Anselm 13 in the past 5 years. 962 students/staff have registered. 5 students/staff have donated stem cells.
A three-year-old boy named Gregory, in the state of Washington, was diagnosed with acute leukemia. When his mother learned that a bone marrow donor match had been found, she said, “We have a chance. Oh my God... Gregory might live!” More than three years later, Gregory and his mom got to meet the donor—Saint Anselm College alumna Katelyn D’Entremont ’09—at the 2012 DKMS Fight Blood Cancer Gala held in New york City. DKMS is the world’s largest bone marrow donor center. At the celebrity filled event, fashion model Heidi Klum introduced D’Entremont on stage. “It just brings this full circle,” said the Saint Anselm nursing grad after a long, teary hug with Gregory’s mom. “you get that call and you do the procedure… you’re always thinking of them, on a daily basis almost. you have this unique connection with this little kid somewhere in the world—whether it’s in Africa or the United States, you never know.” D’Entremont is one of nearly 1,000 Anselmians who have registered as potential bone marrow donors, and one of five who have completed the transplant process. “It was one of the best experiences of my life,” says D’Entremont, a registered nurse who works at Massachusetts General Hospital. The emotional meeting was captured on youtube in “Katie Saves Gregory: A Donor and Patient Meet.”
Photo by Sarah Jaye Weiss
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