Press Releases - 2016

News and announcements on our leading research and innovative, world-class care for children and expectant mothers.

• December 8 Conjoined twins successfully separated at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
• November 11 Traumatic stress changes brains of boys, girls differently
• November 11 A record number of organ transplants at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in October
• November 08 Stanford Medicine Children’s Health opens new outpatient pediatric specialty services center in Monterey
• October 31 Family returns home to Chicago after 4 months in intensive care following infant’s life-saving heart surgery and liver transplant
• October 17 VA and Stanford to pursue the nation’s first Hadron Center
• October 12 Elizabeth Dunlevie returns to serve on Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford’s Board of Directors
• October 03 New Surgeon-in-Chief appointed at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
• August 15 Automating genetic analysis helps keep up with rapid discovery of new diseases
• July 05 Stanford Cancer Institute earns highest cancer center designation
• June 28  Mary Leonard, MD, appointed physician-in-chief at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford Children’s Health
• June 21 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford named to U.S. News & World Report's 2016-17 Best Children’s Hospitals Honor Roll
• May 24 Stanford Medicine Children’s Health opens new, 80,000 square foot Specialty Services Center in Sunnyvale
• May 10 Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford celebrates 25 years of innovation, excellence and care for children and expectant mothers
• May 04 After making heart surgery history at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, 5-month-old Carmel Smith is home for good
• April 25 Autism Symposium May 7 at Stanford University, Sponsored by Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health
• April 11 Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford Leader Earns Top Certification as Patient Experience Professional
• April 04 Transplant program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford again recognized as a national leader
• March 16 Bay Area kids with irregular heart rhythms get their lives back through implantable cardioverter defibrillators at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health
• March 07 Neonatology pioneer at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health honored with major national award
• February 29 Magnet-powered bone lengthening device at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health saves kids pain, infection risk
• February 23 Family travels coast-to-coast for child’s lifesaving heart surgery from Dr. Frank Hanley at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health
• February 10 Adult Congenital Heart Program at Stanford offers unusual level of expertise in caring for adults born with heart defects
• February 4 Why Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is America’s leading training ground for child neurologists
• February 1 Fast, accurate cystic fibrosis test developed at Stanford
• January 25 Two new board members for 2016 at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
• January 21 Survey: Children’s Heart Center at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has exceptional outcomes — even while tackling the most complex cases in the U.S.
• January 19 Stanford Medicine Children’s Health tackles rise in youth sports injuries by launching Young Athletes Academy in January
• January 13 Expert in cancer immunotherapy joins Stanford Medicine faculty