Help and Hope Happen Here

Meet Dr. Doug Hawkins, who is the Group Chair of the Children's Oncology Group, which the only international organization that focuses exclusively on children's and adolescent cancer research. Dr. Hawkins will speak about the many initiatives and innovations that are helping children all across the world have a better chance to live longer and healthier lives than many of their less fort...

Meet John Berardi who is the Director of the Jimmy Fund's Little League Program. This program was founded in the 1980's by John's father George, along with former Red Sox players Mike Andrews and Rico Petrocelli. Kids who are in the age group of 7-13 years old have a chance to play either baseball or softball in the summer , while at the same time having the opportunity to raise mon...

Meet Dr. William Evans from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Dr. Evans is the former Director and Chief Executive Officer of St. Jude from 2004-2014, and has been an active participant with one of the most important Pediatric Cancer hospitals in the world for the past 42 years.

Meet     Lisa Cleary: Lisa is the mother of Nick, who was diagnosed with high risk Neuroblastoma at 22 months old. After undergoing a difficult treatment process at Children's Hospital in Boston, Nick is doing well and is now a 7 year old 2nd grade student. Lisa speaks about the many challenges that Nick has faced and the good news that he is looking at a promising future.

Meet Dean Crowe: Dean started the Rally Foundation as a way to help in this ongoing Pediatric Cancer fight. Dean will talk about the 20 million dollars that her foundation has now given out in grants to Pediatric Cancer researchers and oncologists, her Rally Kids programs, her total passion for helping all of these patients, and the fact that 93 cents out of every dollar raised goes towards their...

Meet Ruth Hoffman: Ruth is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Childhood Cancer Organization, which is located just outside of Washington, D.C. This is the largest grassroots Pediatric Cancer organization in the United States, and was founded by a group of influential parents who met while their children were all undergoing treatment for various forms of cancer at a local hospital in 1968....

 Meet Kathleen Ruddy: Kathleen is the Chief Executive Officer of the St. Baldrick's Foundation which is located in Los Angeles. Kathleen will talk about the concept of head shaving as a way to raise money for Pediatric Cancer and how this foundation has grown from its initial event on St. Patrick's Day of 2000 which raised $104,000, to the point where it has now given out $317 million do...

Meet Leanne Masten:-   Leanne will speak about her 4 year daughter Addi, who was diagnosed with Stage 4, High Risk Neuroblastoma in 2018 at the age of 2. Addi has fought a heroic battle against the ravages of this very difficult Pediatric Cancer, and now she is cancer free and healthy. Addi's journey has inspired over 270,000 people to follow her on facebook

Meet Zack Blackburn: Zack is the Director of the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk. This walk is the largest participatory event that the Jimmy Fund sponsors and is the biggest charity walk in the United States from a fundraising standpoint. The event annually raises about 8 million dollars each year and approximately 8500 people participate in it. Zack will talk about how the participants walk 26.2...

Meet Jeanine McManus: Jeanine will talk about her initial nursing experiences as a travel nurse including her time spent at Bethesda Naval Hospital, her 11 years of volunteering during summers at the iconic Hole In The Wall Gang Camp, and finally putting her roots down at Children's Hospital here in Boston. Jeanine is a Procedural Nurse who specializes in Procedural Sedation with pediatric ca...

Meet Michael Dotto: Michael was first diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease in 1976 at the age of 16. Since that time, he has battled a number of health related issues, many of them caused, at least in part, by the amount of radiation he received during his first bout with cancer. Michael has made "giving back" a major part of his life as he has walked the entire 26.2 miles of the Jimmy Fund W...

Meet Bob Horan: Bob was a legendary and beloved volunteer on the oncology ward at Children's Hospital in Boston for almost 17 years. "Tuesday Bob" as he was affectionally known as, talks about his experiences visiting thousands of Pediatric Cancer Patients and their parents and his love for Children's Hospital

Meet Liz Scott: Liz is the co founder of the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. This foundation was started by Liz and her husband Jay after their daughter Alexandra passed away from Neuroblastoma in 2004, at the age of eight. Alex, as everyone called her, decided at the age of 4 to start a lemonade stand to help kids who had cancer. Just two weeks before her passing, she achieved her goal of...

Meet Casey Wall : Casey is a Nurse Practitioner at Children's Hospital and Dana Farber. She will talk about her early days as nurse at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, her time at the Columbia University Medical Center where she worked in helping Bone Marrow Transplant patients, and her role now at Children's where she works with Pediatric Cancer patients who have solid tumor ca...

Meet Dr. David Shulman: Dr. Shulman is a Pediatric Oncologist at Children's Hospital and Dana Farber who will speak about the 3 different categories of cancer that he treats, about the clinical trials he is involved with, his role in working on a collaboartive with a hospital in Rwanda, and how he sees the future of Pediatric Cancer

Meet Jill MacDonald: A Nurse at the Jimmy Fund Clinic who talks about her experience as a travel nurse, her role as a Triage Nurse, her role in working on quality improvements, and her role in direct patient care

Meet Lisa Scherber: Lisa is a true Icon of the Jimmy Fund. She is the Director of Family and Patient Programs and is in charge of running the Jimmy Fund Clinic. Lisa talks about her true passion for these kids in helping their experience during cancer treatment be as pleasant as possible by initiating many programs that have helped in this process.

Meet Nicole Lamontagne, who is a lead Social Worker for the Pediatric Cancer Patients who come to Children's Hospital for their Inpatient stay, as they receive their treatment for cancer. She describes her role, which is a very difficult and vital one that helps these kids and their families deal with the emotional side of their illness

Meet Kari Mchugh: The Executive Director of the Dunkin' Joy in Childhood Foundation. She talks about the many programs in their foundation that help children with hunger and illness, including Pediatric Cancer

Meet Ginger and Ryan Comeau: They will discuss Ryan's successful battle against Non Hodgkins Lymphoma which Ryan was diagnosed with at age 16

Meet Dan Shaughnessy : Dan is a very well known award winning Sports Columnist and author from the Boston Globe who will talk about his daughter Kate's successful battle with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in the mid 1990's. He will also discuss the kindness showed to Kate by legendary Red Sox players Roger Clemens and Ted Williams and their dedication to the Jimmy Fund

Meet Dr. Katie Janeway. She is a well known and well respected Pediatric Oncologist at Dana Farber and Children's Hospital who talks about her specialty which is Pediatric Sarcoma with a concentration on Osteosarcoma. She is also a cancer survivor and talks about that experience as well. 

Meet Mark Myers: He is the Director of Communications for a National Organization entitled Cure Childhood Cancer. He speaks about what this organization does to help Pediatric Cancer Patients and also talks about his daughter Kylie, who passed away from Ewings Sarcoma, just before her 13th birthday. 

Meet Tracey Glynn - A Teacher and Faculty Advisor at Newburyport High School who talks about her students and their involvement in Putting 4 Patients and how it motivated them to support the Jimmy Fund.

Meet Eric Grund: A Cancer Survivor and Founder of Recycled Computers 4 Cancer which is a non profit company that distributes computers to cancer patients and money to cancer organizations.