Colin’s Kids Awards $15,000 in Research Grants
HOPEWELL VALLEY: Colin’s Kids awards $15,000 in research grants
Colin’s Kids Inc. has awarded $15,000 in research grants to two physicians for their work in pediatric cardiology.
DATE POSTED: Friday, January 24, 2014 12:38 PM EST
By John Tredrea, Special Writer
Colin’s Kids Inc. has awarded $15,000 in research grants to two physicians for their work in pediatric cardiology.
The awards to Dr. Matthew Crystal and Dr. Dina Ferdman, both of the Columbia University Medical Center, were announced by Hopewell Township resident Nancy King, who co-founded Colin’s Kids in 2008 with David King and Nancy Molloy.
Their children, Colin Molloy and Andrew King, were born with congenital heart defects and subsequently were treated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. While there, the families became each other’s support system and built a lasting friendship.
Colin’s Kids is a nonprofit organization that works to provide funding for research related to the diagnosis, life-improving treatment, cure and prevention of congenital heart defects, and to provide rapid response financial assistance to economically strained families struggling to obtain the best available care for their children.
”We will be hosting a ladies luncheon at Trenton Country Club on Feb. 7, 2014, to raise awareness and funds,” said Ms. King.
Tickets are $60 each. For more information or to register online for the event, visit www.colinskids.org.
Andrew King survived a transposition of the great arteries, in part due to an arterial switch procedure that did not exist until 30 years ago. Unfortunately, Colin, diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, passed away due to surgical complications. He was only 47 days old.
”It is a privilege to celebrate the life of Colin in such an impactful way,” said Ms. Molloy. “I believe that supporting research that can ultimately change the course of a child and their loved one’s lives, is the greatest way to honor him.”
Added Ms. King, “Colin was Andrew’s first friend. He spent most of his life right next to my son. I know that he is still there, as his guardian angel, watching over him.”
Dr. Crystal, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, is the recipient of a $10,000 Colin Molloy Research Award. He will focus his research on the creation of a non-surgical animal model of pulmonary vein stenosis. This model will allow experimental, novel and innovative devices to be tested in the hopes of improving clinical outcomes for children with pulmonary vein stenosis.
Dr. Ferdman, postdoctoral clinical fellow, will use her $5,000 Andrew King Research Award to support her ongoing research on validation of a measurement of fetal cardiac function. It is her hope these studies will help illuminate detection of normal and abnormal cardiac function in various forms of congenital heart disease so physicians can manage patients from an earlier age and better predict their outcomes.
Colin’s Kids Inc. has awarded $15,000 in research grants to two physicians for their work in pediatric cardiology.
DATE POSTED: Friday, January 24, 2014 12:38 PM EST
By John Tredrea, Special Writer
Colin’s Kids Inc. has awarded $15,000 in research grants to two physicians for their work in pediatric cardiology.
The awards to Dr. Matthew Crystal and Dr. Dina Ferdman, both of the Columbia University Medical Center, were announced by Hopewell Township resident Nancy King, who co-founded Colin’s Kids in 2008 with David King and Nancy Molloy.
Their children, Colin Molloy and Andrew King, were born with congenital heart defects and subsequently were treated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. While there, the families became each other’s support system and built a lasting friendship.
Colin’s Kids is a nonprofit organization that works to provide funding for research related to the diagnosis, life-improving treatment, cure and prevention of congenital heart defects, and to provide rapid response financial assistance to economically strained families struggling to obtain the best available care for their children.
”We will be hosting a ladies luncheon at Trenton Country Club on Feb. 7, 2014, to raise awareness and funds,” said Ms. King.
Tickets are $60 each. For more information or to register online for the event, visit www.colinskids.org.
Andrew King survived a transposition of the great arteries, in part due to an arterial switch procedure that did not exist until 30 years ago. Unfortunately, Colin, diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, passed away due to surgical complications. He was only 47 days old.
”It is a privilege to celebrate the life of Colin in such an impactful way,” said Ms. Molloy. “I believe that supporting research that can ultimately change the course of a child and their loved one’s lives, is the greatest way to honor him.”
Added Ms. King, “Colin was Andrew’s first friend. He spent most of his life right next to my son. I know that he is still there, as his guardian angel, watching over him.”
Dr. Crystal, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, is the recipient of a $10,000 Colin Molloy Research Award. He will focus his research on the creation of a non-surgical animal model of pulmonary vein stenosis. This model will allow experimental, novel and innovative devices to be tested in the hopes of improving clinical outcomes for children with pulmonary vein stenosis.
Dr. Ferdman, postdoctoral clinical fellow, will use her $5,000 Andrew King Research Award to support her ongoing research on validation of a measurement of fetal cardiac function. It is her hope these studies will help illuminate detection of normal and abnormal cardiac function in various forms of congenital heart disease so physicians can manage patients from an earlier age and better predict their outcomes.
