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Category: #ItsPersonal
Ivy Blog #ItsPersonal
It’s Personal: Matthew Dufault
- March 23, 2021
- Ivy Center
- Posted in #ItsPersonal
“GBM is a disease that is very, very aggressive and very difficult for patients and their families to deal with,...
Read More It’s Personal: Dr. Robert F. Spetzler
- February 12, 2021
- Ivy Center
- Posted in #ItsPersonal
- Comments: 3
World-renowned neurosurgeon, Dr. Robert F. Spetzler, recalls his sister-in-law's diagnosis with glioblastoma and the personal connections that guided him through his career.
Read More It’s Personal: Terra Ybarra
- December 11, 2020
- Ivy Center
- Posted in #ItsPersonal
For Terra, a research nurse at the Ivy Center, brain cancer became all too personal after learning that her brother-in-law was diagnosed with glioblastoma.
Read More It’s Personal: Dr. Zaman Mirzadeh
- November 9, 2020
- Ivy Center
- Posted in #ItsPersonal
It was in the middle of his residency at Barrow Neurological Institute when Dr. Zaman Mirzadeh found out that his mother was diagnosed with glioblastoma. Looking back now, Dr. Mirzadeh recalls the pain from that experience and the invaluable life lesson his mother left him with which he continues to apply to his work at Barrow and the Ivy Center.
Read More It’s Personal: Dr. Michael T. Lawton
- September 17, 2020
- Ivy Center
- Posted in #ItsPersonal
For Barrow Neurological Institute President and CEO, Michael T. Lawton, MD, his work in the neurological field became deeply personal 13 years ago.
Read More Me, Myself, and the Meningioma
- August 11, 2020
- Kelly Braun
- Posted in #ItsPersonal
- Comments: 1
Twelve years after her diagnosis, Dr. Kelly Braun, a neuro-oncologist at the Ivy Brain Tumor Center, shares her personal story of overcoming a meningioma and how it has impacted her life and inspired her career.
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