Childrens health 2014 annual report

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Children’s Medical Center Foundation raised nearly $40 million in 2014.

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$ Dr. Sean Morrison, director of the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, welcomes members of the Scripps Society, postdoctoral research fellows, and other guests to the annual spring reception in 2014.

Dr. Kern Wildenthal, president of Children’s Medical Center Foundation, Joanna and Peter Townsend, co-chairs of the Friends of the Center for Autism & Developmental Disabilities, and Annie Bowler (center right), the artist who created the drawings on the Center’s walls.

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Though we employ sophisticated robotic technology to help perform certain surgeries, the only robot that makes rounds at Children’s Health is our RP-VITA unit. Controlled remotely via iPad, the robot zips in and out of rooms and has been dubbed “Dr. Zippy” by the children. Dr. Zippy enables remote consults with specialists who are not on-site and can help cut down exposures to infectious diseases.

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