Thursday, June 27, 2013

This is the group picture from this year's reunion.  I've circled us in red so you can find us!!
 

Here's an excerpt from the news article accompanying the picture:

More than 250 children who received prenatal care at the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and their families, attended a reunion Sunday for former patients of the specialized unit.

The 17th annual reunion brought together more 1,300 people from 16 states.

Doctors at CHOP’s Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment performed their 1,000th fetal surgery earlier this month.

The center opened 18 years ago to perform highly complex surgical interventions that involve repairing birth defects in the womb.

Only about 4,000 fetal surgeries have been done worldwide, meaning a quarter of the procedures have been performed at CHOP.

“Although birth defects remain the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States, we have been able to develop and share innovations that help advance treatment for these defects, relying on tools, techniques and experience not available 30 years ago,” said fetal surgery pioneer Dr. N. Scott Adzick, the center’s medical director and CHOP’s surgeon-in-chief.


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