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Meet Leanne Masten:-  

Leanne will speak about her 4 year daughter Addi, who was diagnosed with Stage 4, High Risk Neuroblastoma in 2018 at the age of 2. Addi has fought a heroic battle against the ravages of this very difficult Pediatric Cancer, and now she is cancer free and healthy. Addi's journey has inspired over 270,000 people to follow her on facebook

Meet Zack Blackburn: Zack is the Director of the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk. This walk is the largest participatory event that the Jimmy Fund sponsors and is the biggest charity walk in the United States from a fundraising standpoint. The event annually raises about 8 million dollars each year and approximately 8500 people participate in it. Zack will talk about how the participants walk 26.2, 13.1, 6.2., or 3.1 miles from either Hopkinton, Wellesley, Newton, or the Dana Farber to Copley Square, where this great celebration continues

Meet Jeanine McManus: Jeanine will talk about her initial nursing experiences as a travel nurse including her time spent at Bethesda Naval Hospital, her 11 years of volunteering during summers at the iconic Hole In The Wall Gang Camp, and finally putting her roots down at Children's Hospital here in Boston. Jeanine is a Procedural Nurse who specializes in Procedural Sedation with pediatric cancer patients who mainly are being treated for blood cancers or brain tumors. 

Meet Michael Dotto: Michael was first diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease in 1976 at the age of 16. Since that time, he has battled a number of health related issues, many of them caused, at least in part, by the amount of radiation he received during his first bout with cancer. Michael has made "giving back" a major part of his life as he has walked the entire 26.2 miles of the Jimmy Fund Walk for each of the past 32 years, and started a major Jimmy Fund Wine Tasting fundraiser called Raise Your Glass For Jimmy. Michael talks about these experiences plus having to once again confront another battle with the enemy known as Cancer. 

Meet Bob Horan: Bob was a legendary and beloved volunteer on the oncology ward at Children's Hospital in Boston for almost 17 years. "Tuesday Bob" as he was affectionally known as, talks about his experiences visiting thousands of Pediatric Cancer Patients and their parents and his love for Children's Hospital

Meet Liz Scott: Liz is the co founder of the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. This foundation was started by Liz and her husband Jay after their daughter Alexandra passed away from Neuroblastoma in 2004, at the age of eight. Alex, as everyone called her, decided at the age of 4 to start a lemonade stand to help kids who had cancer. Just two weeks before her passing, she achieved her goal of raising one million dollars with this lemonade stand concept. This foundation has grown from a million and a half dollars when it was started in 2005, to a foundation that has raised over 200 million dollars to help in this Pediatric Cancer Fight. Liz tells a remarkable story of her amazing daughter Alex and a foundation that has benefited so many Pediatric Cancer Patients.

Meet Casey Wall : Casey is a Nurse Practitioner at Children's Hospital and Dana Farber. She will talk about her early days as nurse at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, her time at the Columbia University Medical Center where she worked in helping Bone Marrow Transplant patients, and her role now at Children's where she works with Pediatric Cancer patients who have solid tumor cancers.

Meet Dr. David Shulman: Dr. Shulman is a Pediatric Oncologist at Children's Hospital and Dana Farber who will speak about the 3 different categories of cancer that he treats, about the clinical trials he is involved with, his role in working on a collaboartive with a hospital in Rwanda, and how he sees the future of Pediatric Cancer

Meet Jill MacDonald: A Nurse at the Jimmy Fund Clinic who talks about her experience as a travel nurse, her role as a Triage Nurse, her role in working on quality improvements, and her role in direct patient care

Meet Lisa Scherber: Lisa is a true Icon of the Jimmy Fund. She is the Director of Family and Patient Programs and is in charge of running the Jimmy Fund Clinic. Lisa talks about her true passion for these kids in helping their experience during cancer treatment be as pleasant as possible by initiating many programs that have helped in this process.