Nonprofit Storytelling
Articles written for the Veterans of Foreign Wars association magazine while working in the publications department.
Kionte Storey lost his right leg in an IED explosion while serving in Afghanistan. Since then, he has battled depression, trained for the Paralympics and climbed two mountains as a way to show other veterans what they are capable of doing. READ MORE.
Vietnam War veteran Billy Terrell has had a successful music career, recording with artists such as Bobby Rydell and Frankie Avalon. The draft halted his aspirations, but also presented opportunities to help children at a Vietnamese orphanage. READ MORE.
A researcher at Chesterfield, Missouri-based Mercy who helped develop an AI-driven program to serve at-risk chemotherapy patients received her own cancer diagnosis while working on the project. Jiajing Chen, the biostatistician assigned to the topic, had peripheral T-cell lymphoma. She died last year. After her death, the platform was named in her honor. READ MORE.
Patients at Essentia Health now have a say in what the health system's researchers study.
Earlier this year, the Minnesota-based system became part of the Stakeholders, Technology and Research (STAR) Clinical Research Network alongside Stanford University. It's one of 10 health systems in the partnership. READ MORE.
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