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From the President Dear Friend: All Children's Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine is a community of healers and helpers. Our main campus is networked throughout the region via outpatient care centers and affiliations with community hospitals to care for the children in our community and beyond. Our team of over 3,100 staff members are totally devoted to children. Driven by our values embedded in excellence, quality, safety and respect, our team of physicians, nurses, researchers, allied professionals and volunteers dedicate themselves to providing the best compassionate care possible. All Children's inquisitive nature as a teaching and research center helps us deliver the most advanced pediatric care. Our residents and fellows are learning from some of the top pediatric physicians in the country. Our researchers use innovative technology and biostatistics to better understand how serious childhood health problems develop and progress. Together we are striving to provide enhanced treatments, produce better outcomes and bring hope to our patients and families. At the center of all our efforts are our patients and families. We are humbled by their trust and inspired by their needs. They have hope because of the quality of our staff and the dedicated support by this community and friends like you who give of their time, talent and treasure. You are one of those caring individuals who is making a difference for our children. As you read the following pages, I hope you realize your impact. Because of you, we are a better organization. We are better for our children. Thank you for all you do. All we do. All for kids. Sincerely, Jonathan M. Ellen, M.D. President and Physician-in-Chief All Children's Hospital Vice Dean and Professor of Pediatrics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Fall/Winter 2015 3