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Diversity in the news

At Boston Children's Hospital, we celebrate our diversity. Here are just a few of our noteworthy employees, patients and community members:

Meet our 2009 Black Achievers This month, Boston Children's Hospital honors Michelle Boyce, administrative associate III in Cardiology, and Janet McGillicuddy, Patient Services administrator...	Behind the Scenes of the International Center When Veronica Ortiz left her home in Mexico City to come to Boston Children's Hospital with her critically ill daughter who needed esophageal surgery, she spoke limited English and had trouble understanding the doctors...
An Average Day in the Life of Roxana Llerena Quinn To tell the truth, there is no ordinary day for Roxana Llerena-Quinn, PhD. For starters...	Specialty Medical Care For All During the past few decades, there has been a growing awareness of the need to bring primary care to the communities, especially to...
Peter Bruce's Ordinary Life Thirteen years ago Peter was born in the Philippines missing both arms below the elbow, his left leg below the knee, and having only a small hole where his mouth should have been...	All For One Andy Trevino was born on May 15, 1999, the first child of Andres and Paulina Treviï¿½o. Only 48 hours into little Andy's life, he got a fever that proved to be the first shot fired by Andy's immune system in a potentially deadly battle...
Jacky Cortes's journey from patient to RN Some of Jacky Cortes's most poignant childhood memories of growing up in Mission Hill include frantic trips to Boston Children's Hospital...	Opening doors for children with disabilities When Elizabeth Bostic of Reading saw her entire family playing together on a playground for the first time this fall, she could barely contain herself...
Found in translation Ursula Tice traces her on-the-job philosophy back to her upbringing, in Venezuela...	A day in the life of a mental health clinician Frances Colón's job description includes terms like "social work" and "therapy," but that doesn't cover all that her work entails...
Destination: Imam helps Muslim families adjust As Boston Children's Hospital's only Imam, or Muslim chaplain, Salih Yucel has the weighty responsibility of providing spiritual care to Muslim families...	Blood Brothers When Jason and Melissa Winchell, two teachers in the Lynn, Mass., school system, decided to do relief work at a Haitian orphanage, little did they know how much it would change their lives...