Impact Video Series: Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation

We interviewed leading individuals from our beneficiaries to discuss the importance of medical research, their recent breakthroughs and the vital need for private funding.

Impact Video Series

Impact Video Series: Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation

November 22, 2019
We interviewed leading individuals from our beneficiaries to discuss the importance of medical research, their recent breakthroughs and the vital need for private funding.
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We interviewed leading individuals from our beneficiaries to discuss the importance of medical research, their recent breakthroughs and the vital need for private funding. In this video we talk to:

  • Dr Marino Festa, Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine and Co-Lead for Research and SCHN Critical Care Program Director (Medical) at Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation
  • Gail Harper, Paediatric Intensive Care Research Coordinator at Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation

The Sydney Children's Hospitals Foundation, Kids Critical Care Unit has been nominated by the HM1's Board.

We interviewed leading individuals from our beneficiaries to discuss the importance of medical research, their recent breakthroughs and the vital need for private funding. In this video we talk to:

  • Dr Marino Festa, Senior Staff Specialist in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine and Co-Lead for Research and SCHN Critical Care Program Director (Medical) at Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation
  • Gail Harper, Paediatric Intensive Care Research Coordinator at Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation

The Sydney Children's Hospitals Foundation, Kids Critical Care Unit has been nominated by the HM1's Board.

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