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PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY PATIENTS TO CUT AND SHAVE DOCTOR’S HAIR FOR LOCKS OF LOVE
Hair will be donated to organization that makes wigs for children with hair loss caused by an illness
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Who:
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Dr. J. Grey Faulkenberry, an internal medicine resident at Holtz Children’s Hospital; Jessica Chee, UM/Jackson internal medicine-pediatrics program coordinator; Holtz patients
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What:
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J. Grey Faulkenberry, M.D., a resident at Holtz Children’s Hospital at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center, has been growing his hair long for more than three years – with a purpose. On Thursday, he will allow a few pediatric patients in Holtz’s oncology and hematology unit to cut his long, curly locks and then shave his head. More than 12 inches of his hair will be cut and then donated to Locks of Love, an organization that helps children who have lost their hair because of an illness, such as cancer. In 2007, he also donated his hair.
Dr. Faulkenberry will be joined by Jessica Chee, UM/Jackson internal medicine-pediatrics program coordinator, who will allow pediatric patients to cut her waist-length hair. She, too, has donated her hair to Locks of Love in the past.
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When:
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May
09, 2013, 11:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.
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Where:
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Holtz Children’s Hospital
6B Playroom
1611 N.W. 12th Avenue
Miami, FL 33132
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Editor’s Note:
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Media can park outside of Ryder Trauma Center. A representative from public relations will meet media under the portico outside of Holtz at 10:45 a.m.
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Jackson Health System
1611 N.W. 12th Avenue Miami, FL 33136
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