I'm Like You: Judi Wilkinson
Judi Wilkinson of Ormond Beach, Florida, has worked as a mortgage underwriter, 911 operator and auto racing team manager. She was accustomed to handling tough situations, as well as emergencies.
patient
Tacrolimus
Tacrolimus
Tacrolimus:
Tacrolimus is in a class of medications called immunosuppressants. It works by decreasing the activity of the immune system.
“Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere.”
On April 15, 2007, my husband Jeff, age 39, tucked our two and three year old boys into bed. He suddenly yelled down to me in a concerned voice, “Honey, my vision is slightly distorted, and it must be a migraine. I’m going to lay down for a bit.”
Katherine Calvo, MD, PhD
Institution
National Institutes of Health
Physician Status
accepting new patients
Primary Disease Area of Focus
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Aplastic Anemia
About
Dr. Katherine Calvo is a hematopathologist and researcher in the Hematology Section Clinical Center’s Department of Laboratory Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Calvo graduated from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and completed a fellowship and residency at National Institutes of Health. In collaboration with Dr. Steven Holland in the National Institute for Allergy and Infection Diseases and Dr. Neal Young from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, they have developed a method for identifying patients with a high likelihood of having GATA2
I'm Like You: Briana Donis
Homecoming queen and top student Briana Donis always wanted to go to the University of Texas at Austin.
“I was having a pretty awesome year. I was very well known at school and I had a boyfriend.” She had just been accepted at the school of her choice when she noticed how really tired she was all the time. And then the bleeding started.
My Life is Making a Difference
Beginning September 2012, I just wasn’t feeling quite right. I was increasingly fatigued and there were some perplexing bleeding incidents, as well. After many months I experienced partial vision – just little areas of vision that were blank. Internal bleeding in the eyes was causing this, and my eye doctor knew it was serious and even thought it could be leukemia.
2014 Matthew Debono Scholarship Winner Thomas Howlett
Thomas is thankful he has a future.
2014 Matthew Debono Scholarship Winner Annette Lysan
In March, Annette had the honor of singing a solo for her high school senior show. She chose to sing “I Was Here”, a song recorded by the group Lady Antebellum and others. The lyrics for the chorus start with “I wanna do something that matters – say something different – something that sets the whole world on its ear – I wanna do something better with the time I’ve been given.” She considers it her personal anthem.
I'm Like You: Ricky Smith, Jr.
29-year-old Ricky Smith, Jr.
2013 Matthew Debono Scholarship Winner Kellie Day
Kellie was diagnosed with aplastic anemia aplastic anemia: (ay-PLASS-tik uh-NEE_mee-uh) A rare and serious condition in which the bone marrow fails to make enough blood cells -