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Sarah Beth Miller
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Teresa Martin
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Carla Sevin, MD
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Pratik Pandharipande, MD, MSCI
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James C. Jackson, PsyD
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Becky and Danny West
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Danny West teaching Med Students in his Leopard Skin Bra
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Transplant Surgeon Dr. Robin Pierson with patient Marcus Cobb holding his own heart
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Lovemore Gororo
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Brenda Truman Pun, DNP, RN
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Caroline Lassen-Greene, PhD
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Debrah Cook, MD, MSc
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Kyle and Katie Mullicane
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Mina Nordness, MD
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Diane Whitten-Vile and Donna Hilley
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Donna Hilley and family with President Bush
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Yvonne (Harter) Tanner
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Gordon Bernard, MD
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Wes, Polly Bailey, RN, Joy Sundloff and John Sundloff
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Bill Schweickert, MD
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Poul Klint Anderson, MD
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Thomas Strøm, MD
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Chris Perme, PT CCS FCCM
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Heidi Engel, PT, DPT
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Janet Keith
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Kelly Drumright, MSN, RN
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Kelly McCutcheon Adams, BA, MSW, LICSW
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Mary Ann 'Jett' Barnes-Daly, MS, RN
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Rob, Bonnie, Lance and Kaely Harmer
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Vicki Spuhler, RN, MS
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Don Berwick, MD, MPP
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Gabi Heras, MD
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Steve Edmonson
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Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD
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Audun Huslid
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Eileen Rubin, JD
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Carol Billian and Wes
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John and Fiona Prine
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Alison and Matt Lansing with Wylie, Caroline and Titus
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Michael Merzenich, PhD
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Colonel Victor Correa
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Jimmie Johnson and Johnnie Blackwell
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Jimmie Johnson was liberated by ICU’s humanizing A2F Bundle
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Mike, Jamie and Zachary Melton
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Susan Keener
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Clementine Hunter
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Warren C. Lowe, PhD
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Carla (Davis) Hughes, Heart of Hospice
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Kondwelani Mateyo, MD
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Mary and Phillip Hill
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Virginia and Doyle Thomas Stevens
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Yu-hyun Kim
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Joan Bennett, PhD
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Robert S. Dittus, MD, MPH
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