Volunteers
July 13, 2018
Offering Support Through Comforting Touch
By Linda Binner 
Using the power of touch, more than 100 Caring Hands volunteers provide hand massages to ease stress and provide comfort to patients and caregivers across Mayo Clinic.
Tags: Becky Hynes, Caring Hands, Linda Bonow
April 24, 2017
Mayo Clinic Mentors Build Confidence in Young Technovation Participants
When Zulbiye Jorgensen, a project manager in Mayo Clinic’s Center for Connected Care, began mentoring a team of Byron, Minnesota, high school girls in 2016 as part of the international Technovation Challenge, she asked the girls what careers they were considering.
Tags: Center for Innovation
January 23, 2017
Aboard Floating Hospital, Bringing Medical Help to Poorest Nations
Brittany Blake, a nurse anesthetist at Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus, has participated in many international missions trips over the past five years. But her recent experience as a volunteer with Mercy Ships, an international faith-based organization that sends floating hospitals to some of the poorest nations is the world, was different than any of her […]
Tags: Brittany Blake, Volunteer
January 9, 2017
Mayo Medical Volunteers Find Perspective by Changing Lives in Ecuador
For years, Kallie Howerton and Kate Hudson had been listening to Kate Welp talk about the mission trips to Ecuador she organizes every year. The nurses work together on the Cardiovascular Surgery Progressive Care unit at Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester, Saint Marys Campus. “My preceptor planted the seed,” says Howerton, who has worked at […]
Tags: Giving Back, Medical Missions, Volunteer
January 17, 2014
Dr. David Fleischer: Treating Esophageal Cancer in Kenya
By SMHNadmin 
Esophageal cancer is a challenging enough condition to treat at the best medical centers in the U.S. When the condition affects scores of people in a developing country in eastern Africa, the challenge is all the more demanding. David Fleischer, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, and his colleagues, working in collaboration with […]
Tags: Africa, Arizona, Cancer, David Fleischer, David Fleischer MD, Dr. Fleischer, esophageal cancer, esophagus, Kenya, radio frequency ablation, RFA, Tenwek Hospital
October 21, 2013
Couple crosses country to help fellow patients
By SMHNadmin
Sunny and Bill Meadows moved from Arkansas to Minnesota to volunteer their time to help other patients. “We hope that by giving back in this way, we can express our appreciation for all Mayo Clinic has done for us,” they say. On the surface, Sunny and Bill Meadows’ move from Fayetteville, Ark., to […]
Tags: 1737, 3786, 5291, 5335, Charter House, dialysis, kidney, Lupus, organ donation, Transplant, Transplant House, Volunteer
July 23, 2013
A Double Blessing: The Mexican Red Cross Donation
As an international patient coordinator at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, I have had many opportunities to work with patients to ensure that they receive the best medical care and attention. Helping patients is our number one priority at the International Patients Center. Last year, we had a unique opportunity to reach beyond our four walls […]
Tags: Arizona, Carlos Bloch, Cruz Roja, David Reidy, Donation, International Patients Center, Los Mochis, Mexican Red Cross, Mexico, Mila Vargas, Robert Ferrigni, Sinaloa
July 19, 2013
Harmonica Helps Pulmonary and Lung-Transplant Patients Breath Easier
By Lauren Venoy 
After surviving two separate lung transplant procedures in 2005 and 2008, musician Larry Rawdon is sharing new ways of healing through music with other patients at Mayo Clinic in Florida. It was, after all, music that led him to Mayo Clinic and aided in his recovery after he was diagnosed in 2002 with idiopathic pulmonary […]
Tags: 3790, 5254, 5314, 5324, 5334, cardiothoracic, cardiovascular, Cesar Keller, Florida, Harmonica, Larry Rawdon, lung transplant
May 22, 2013
Mayo Clinic Young Volunteers – W.E. C.A.R.E.
By MakalaArce 
Volunteering at Mayo Clinic is an awesome opportunity and our Mayo Clinic Young Volunteers here in Rochester, Minn., are proud to be part of this world-class institution. Team Leaders on our MCYV Council wanted to showcase some of the qualities of our volunteers, and W.E. C.A.R.E. is an acronym that represents these qualities. I completed […]
Tags: Mayo Clinic, MCYV, Rushil Patel, WE CARE, Young Volunteers
December 10, 2012
By MakalaArce
David Bakken’s blood donation “career” had an inconspicuous start. Years ago, his young daughter needed eye surgery, and he donated blood as a way to help pay for the surgery. “At that time, they paid $25 for each donation,” Bakken recently told KAAL-TV. But the thing is, Bakken didn’t stop. He kept donating. And donating. Now, 50 […]
Tags: Award, blood donor, David Bakken, Donation, Manish Gandhi, Mayo Clinic, Sean Hong