Partners In Care
Archive: July, 2023

At 5 years old, Emma was so small and had already been through so much. “Gillette Children’s was the only place that would help. Nobody was willing to touch her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) because of her growth plates. But once she started collapsing, we knew we had to do something,” Marcie says.

When a child sustains an injury during exercise, sports, or other types of physical activity, they might need to see a pediatric specialty sports medicine doctor for treatment.

Gillette Children’s and the University of Minnesota have a rich research collaboration history that continues to expand with the arrival of a new grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Gillette Children’s hand surgeons Ann Van Heest, MD, and Deborah Bohn, MD, recently hosted the World Symposium on Congenital Malformations of the Hand and Upper Limb in Minneapolis.

Individuals with cerebral palsy may experience two common muscular issues: hypertonia and contractures. Both of these issues can be troublesome and impede functioning, yet their underlying causes my differ and therefore, necessitate different treatment.

Jennifer Laine, MD, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, and Medical Director of Research at Gillette Children’s, has been elected to the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America (POSNA) Board of Directors.

Gillette welcomes a new Complex Care pediatrician, Uyen Truong, MD, to its roster of expert providers.

Gillette now has three centers of patient care recognized by the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) for Patient Centered Specialty Practice (PCSP).

Planned for release in 2024, a new series of books by experts at Gillette Children‘s will provide in-depth understanding of conditions treated at the hospital.

Gillette Children’s has named orthopedic surgeon and Medical Director of Integrated Care Services Tom Novacheck, MD, as the chair of its Cerebral Palsy Institute.