Press Releases - 2018

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

• November 15 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health earn 2018 HealthCare’s Most Wired award
• November 5 Stanford Children’s Health names Paul King president and CEO
• November 1 Stanford Health Care and Stanford Medicine Children's Health launch online second opinion program
• October 9 Children’s hospital appeals to FDA for permission to perform unusual surgery to save a 12-year-old girl
• September 7 Christopher Dawes: A trailblazer for children’s health
• August 29 The future of surgery has arrived in a newly opened center at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
• August 20 Stanford Children’s Health joins intensive outpatient care program for teens with severe mental health challenges
• August 16 5 Questions: How Stanford research is making MRI scans safer for kids
• August 2 Google Glass helps kids with autism read facial expressions, Stanford study finds
• July 16 Key social reward circuit in the brain impaired in kids with autism, Stanford study shows
• July 10 Stephen Luczo joins board of directors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
• June 28 Cynthia Brandt Stover named new president and CEO of Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health
• June 7 Blood test for pregnant women can predict premature birth, Stanford-led study reports
• April 23 Pediatric obesity, depression connected in the brain
• April 19 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford becomes the West Coast’s first LEED Platinum children’s hospital
• April 16 Altered immune cells clear childhood brain tumor in mice
• April 2 Marissa Mayer joins board of directors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
• March 26 Tad and Dianne Taube commit $20 million to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
• March 13 Nationwide leader in pediatric transplant, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford performed 117 pediatric organ transplants in 2017
• March 5 Researchers identify renegade cells that portend relapse in children with leukemia
• February 13 Pioneering immunotherapy to find and kill elusive cancer cells in children at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
• February 7 Newborn baby girl at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is first in Western U.S. to undergo bloodless open-heart surgery
• January 31 Tad and Dianne Taube gift $14.5 million to launch youth addiction and children’s concussion initiatives
• January 24 Board of directors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford appoints Sierra Burnett Clark
• January 24 Positive attitude toward math predicts math achievement in kids