Our Patients

At age 9, Wallie and Noah were facing osteosarcoma—and a surgery that would change their lives forever. There was only one way to get through it: together.

Diagnosed with liver disease at 2 months of age, Mia and her family turned to CHLA’s world-class pediatric Liver Transplant Program to save her life.

Experts at CHLA’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center remove a rare brain lesion in a 14-year-old boy.

Diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, a middle schooler instantly grew 2 inches after the curve in her spine was straightened out.

Buoyed by his Children’s Hospital Los Angeles care team and a positive attitude, teen surfer Cole is back in the water after beating acute myeloid leukemia.

The partnership between an orthopedic surgeon and a neurosurgeon leads to phenomenal success reviving DJ’s disabled arm.

Kate, a 4 West nurse and cancer survivor herself, finds big and small ways to “go the whole nine yards” for her patients every day.

Born at 29 weeks, Sam suffered from subglottic stenosis, his airway so narrowed it was 95% closed. Doctors in CHLA’s Aerodigestive Program worked to rebuild it.

Hunter never let his acute lymphoblastic leukemia diagnosis define him—but today, he proudly wears the title “survivor” in support of cancer research.

A more aggressive treatment regimen for clear cell sarcoma has transformed survival rates for children with the disease.