Including this year, the annual St. Baldrick’s Foundation event at UI Health has raised more than $270,000 to support pediatric cancer research and shaved approximately 410 heads. The pediatric oncology team at the Children’s Hospital University of Illinois, part of UI Health, hosted the 18th annual head-shaving event on March 21.
UI Health and its children’s hospital provide comprehensive services to children, adolescents and young adults with cancer, leukemia, sickle cell disease, hemophilia and other blood disorders.
Again, this year, UI Health was selected for a St. Baldrick’s Foundation Infrastructure Grant. The grant supports the UIC Children’s Oncology Group, a consortium of UIC, Rush University Medical Center and John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County and managed by the University of Illinois Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office. The consortium enrolls patients in clinical studies.
You can read more about the event and see photos of it in UIC Today.