2019 Health Care Heroes: Respect for seniors set doctor’s path
Dr. Chris Callahan’s care for elderly patients informs his research into Alzheimer’s disease and late-life depression.
Tom Harton
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2019 Health Care Heroes: Decorated pediatric surgeon works with kids he saved decades ago
Dr. John Brown has spent four decades repairing children’s hearts and, in some cases, inspiring them to follow in his footsteps.
2019 Health Care Heroes: Kids get chance for more-mobile future
Dr. Denise Carpenter and nurse Jennifer Buckingham are advocates for Pediatric WalkAide, a programmable battery-powered device worn in a cuff that sends electronic impulses over nerves and muscles to stimulate movement and help some children with disabilities walk.
2019 Health Care Heroes: Dementia-care model keeps drugs on shelf
American Senior Communities is at the forefront of the movement to replace drugs with a holistic approach that relies primarily on tools such as music, aromas and robotic pets to put residents at ease.
2019 Health Care Heroes: IU Health, Riley give sickest cancer patients access to game-changing therapy
CAR-T therapy, a life-saving treatment for certain types of cancer, became available at IU Health in July 2018, four months after FDA approval.
2019 Health Care Heroes: Clinic cares for Hamilton County’s poor
In a county known for its affluence, the clinic has become a lifeline for the working poor and the small businesses that employ them.
2019 Health Care Heroes: Team helps frail elderly avoid hospitalization
OPTIMISTIC, a project of Dr. Kathleen Unroe and researchers at the Regenstrief Institute, gives frail nursing home patients the medical care they need without moving them to a hospital.
2019 Health Care Heroes: Internships for the disabled put desirable jobs within reach
A partnership forged six years ago to match disabled college students with paid internships has blossomed into the Eskenazi Health Initiative for Empowerment and Economic Independence.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Elisabeth von der Lohe
Dr. Elisabeth von der Lohe started a women’s heart clinic at IU Health’s Methodist Hospital in 1998, an effort that gained traction as recognition grew nationally that diagnosing and treating heart disease in women and men weren’t one and the same.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Paula Gustafson
Dr. Paula Gustafson is a legend of sorts in Shelby County, where she’s both pediatrician and sleuth.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Krista Brucker
Dr. Krista Brucker's mission is to rescue the opioid abusers who crowd the Eskenazi Health emergency department every day.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Riley Precision Genomics Program
Kids with aggressive or recurring cancers have a new team looking out for them at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Franciscan Hospice House
The opening of the Franciscan Hospice House in 2015 gave the terminally ill a home-like place to die with dignity.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Robert Batler
Dr. Robert Batler learned of a more effective method for early detection of prostate cancer and brought it to central Indiana.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Crooked Creek Food Pantry
Organizers of the Crooked Creek Food Pantry estimated they would serve 200 families a month when the pantry opened in 2015. At last count, 1,200 families a month shop there, filling their carts with mostly healthy food options, at no cost.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Pediatric Center of Hope
The Pediatric Center of Hope starts picking up the pieces for sexually abused children the minute they walk into the exam room.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Nurse-Family Partnership
The Nurse-Family Partnership pairs Medicaid-eligible, first-time mothers-to-be with registered nurses who coach them through their pregnancy and beyond.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Bud Swineford
Bud Swineford is in his 25th year of door-to-door fundraising for the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Indiana Chapter.
2018 Health Care Heroes: Prenatal mentoring boosts babies, families
Community Achievement in Health Care Nurse-Family Partnership Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana has lofty goals, like lowering the state’s unacceptably high infant mortality rate and breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty. Those are ambitious—some might say impossible—challenges. But a program Goodwill introduced in Indianapolis in 2011 is working […]
2018 Health Care Heroes: Emma Stumpf
Teenage cancer patient Emma Stumpf is on a mission to share with others the relief she finds in art.