Thursday, May 10th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
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The KiDS Springfling Gala
was a great success!
Thank you for your support!

Over 350 guests came together as we continued to advance children’s healthcare at NYU
Langone Medical Center.

At the 2012 KiDS Springfling Gala, held on April 3 at The Plaza Hotel, KiDS celebrated more than two decades of supporting pediatrics at NYU Langone Medical Center. This year’s event honored Jeffrey S. Allen, MD, The Otto and Marguerite Manley and Making Headway Foundation Professor of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Director of Pediatric and Adult Neuro-Oncology Programs, and Co-Director of the Neurofibromatosis Center at NYU Langone Medical Center.
The event raised nearly $900,000 toward the transformation of pediatric services at NYU Langone—to enhance clinical and supportive care for young people, foster research into childhood illnesses, and create an environment tailored to the unique needs of children and families.

If you were unable to join us but still want to show your support, click “Donate” to make a contribution.

Alice Tisch, KiDS Board Chair and Dr. Jeffrey Allen, 2012 KiDS Springfling Gala Honoree

At the 2012 KiDS Springfling Gala, held on April 3 at The Plaza Hotel, KiDS celebrated more than two decades of supporting pediatrics at NYU Langone Medical Center.

This year’s event, attended by over 350 supporters, honored Jeffrey S. Allen, MD, The Otto and Marguerite Manley and Making Headway Foundation Professor of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Director of Pediatric and Adult Neuro-Oncology Programs, and Co-Director of the Neurofibromatosis Center at NYU Langone Medical Center

The event raised nearly $$900,000 toward the transformation of pediatric services at NYU Langone—to enhance clinical and supportive care for young people, foster research into childhood illnesses, and create an environment tailored to the unique needs of children and families.

Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Catherine S. Manno, MD at the 2012 KiDS Awards Dinner

KiDS of NYU Langone Foundation announced 2012 KiDS Grant Award recipients at the annual Awards Dinner on February 7, 2012.

This year KiDS funded 53 proposals totaling $515,000. The grants, based on requests from faculty and staff, provide critical funds to support quality of life, teaching and research, and equipment and technology–all to help support the excellence for which pediatrics at NYU Langone Medical Center is recognized.

The event at The Loews Regency Hotel brought members of the KiDS board of directors together with pediatricians, pediatric subspecialists, and pediatric staff to celebrate the recipients of funds raised in the previous year. The theme for the evening, “We care for KiDS at NYU Langone Medical Center,” was reflected in the remarks and decor.

Event Co-Chairs: David Salsberg, PsyD, Gabrielle Gold-von Simson, MD, MSc, Barry Goldfeder, Lisa Anderson, Michael Weaver, Abigail Scheuer Atema, Britt Szsostak, and Alexis Mintz

Score another success for KiDS at its annual family bowling party. The event on January 29 drew over 250 guests and helped raise nearly $100,000 to help enhance clinical and supportive are care for children and families seen at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Off the lanes, children, parents, pediatricians and friends enjoyed face painting, caricatures, arcade games, magic, arts and crafts, and balloon sculptures. A luncheon buffet helped keep guests ready for fun and action.

The event was co-chaired by Lisa Anderson, Abigail Scheuer Atema, Gabrielle Gold-von Simson, MD, Alexis Mintz, MSc, David Salsberg, PsyD, Britt Szostak, and Michael Weaver.

When kids are in the hospital, they don’t always feel like themselves.

KiDS of NYU Langone is proud to say that we have partnered with Ottilie & Lulu whose healthy, fresh and pure products are available here to help make a child’s day in the hospital a little bit shinier.

Help KiDS of NYU Langone and Ottilie & Lulu get their partnership and this giving season off to a great start:
buy something from Ottilie & Lulu for your child and donate the same thing to a child in the hospital! Your item will come straight to you while the other will go directly to the hospital. Ottilie & Lulu will also donate 10% of your sale to KiDS of NYU Langone.

Make this a bright and shiny season for all children, visit Ottilie & Lulu now!

NICU graduates enjoyed a fun afternoon filled with food, games, and arts and crafts. It gave doctors, nurses and staff the opportunity to catch up on the progress of youngsters who spent time in the NICU, either because they were born prematurely or required medical or surgical care soon after birth. And for families, it was a chance to say thanks and heal.

As Nanine Iengo, mother of NICU graduate Teddy, explained, “Coming back to NYU’s NICU for my husband and me is like coming home. It is always welcoming and always feels good to see everyone who played such an integral part in the success of my son’s stay at the NICU.” Teddy, was born at 24 weeks is now a healthy three year old. “Attending the reunions and connecting with other families who had similar feelings as us was integral to our healing as a family.  Showing off our ‘big healthy’ boy to the doctors and nurses who lovingly cared for him, reinforces the work that they do on a daily basis and helps erase the pain that we went through.”

At the 2011 KiDS Springfling Gala, held on May 10 at The Plaza Hotel, KiDS celebrated 20 years of supporting pediatrics at NYU Langone Medical Center.  This year’s event, attended by more than 450 supporters, honored David S. Feldman, MD, chief of the Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU Langone’s Hospital for Joint Diseases.

The event raised over $1.3 million towards the transformation of pediatric services at NYU Langone—to enhance clinical and supportive care for young people, foster research into childhood illnesses, and create an environment tailored to the unique needs of children and families

Speakers paid tribute to Dr. Feldman and included his patients Maurice Elbaz, Kyra Slive, and Douglas Mu; KiDS Chair Alice Tisch; Event Co-chairs Patty Newburger and Brad Wechsler; Catherine Manno, MD, the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor of Pediatrics and chair of the Department of Pediatrics; and Dean and CEO Robert I. Grossman, MD.

On May 2, NYU Langone Medical Center broke ground on the construction of a new Center for Emergency Services, which includes a dedicated pediatric emergency care area. The creation of the Pediatric Emergency Care Center was made possible by the generosity of Trudy Elbaum Gottesman and Robert Gottesman, and KiDS of NYU Langone.

Dean Robert I. Grossman, MD, Robert Gottesman, Trudy Elbaum Gottesman, Alice Tisch, Kenneth G. Langone

Dean Robert I. Grossman, MD, is congratulated by Theresa Landau, MS, RD, CDN, Board of Directors, Baby-Friendly USA

NYU Langone Medical Center has been designated a Baby-Friendly^TM Hospital—the only academic medical center in New York City to receive this prestigious designation and one of only 105 hospitals and birth centers nationally. The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative is a global program sponsored by The World Health Organization and the United National Children’s Fund to encourage and recognize hospitals that offer an optimal level of care for breastfeeding mothers and their infants. These hospitals focus on making breastfeeding a viable option and encourage mothers to be with their newborns 24 hours a day.

Training staff is part of the process in becoming Baby-Friendly. A grant from KiDS in 2010 allowed 48 professionals, including 15 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nurses and one doctor, to attend a five day Certified Lactation Counselor Training Course. In thanking KiDS for their support, Karen Goodman, RN, MA, IBCLC, LCCE, nurse manager of the Mother-Baby Unit at NYU Langone said, “The Lactation Counselor program provided us with additional expertise and knowledge to give evidence-based care to our patients” an important step in NYU Langone becoming Baby-Friendly.