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We Challenge You to Help Children
Donations will help expand our bedside medical research and communicate new discoveries to patients, families, and medical care teams. Funding would provide both immediate and long term benefits to our medical community. In the short term, patients and families will have an enhanced bedside opportunity to learn about and participate in important research trials. In the long term, we will enhance the ability for our research discoveries to change the outcome of disease. These funds will be instrumental in maintaining and growing the excellent quality of medical care at Golisano Children’s Hospital.
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The Talon’s Ski Challenge - Saturday March 2, 2013
In the Talon’s Challenge, an organized event at Beaver Creek, Colorado, Dr. Kate Ackerman will tackle over 24,000 vertical feet in one day to complete 14 black diamond and double black diamond ski trails. These high altitude runs include the World Cup Birds of Prey downhill course as well as difficult mogul runs on Grouse Mountain and in Larkspur Bowl. Dr. Ackerman shares that the “prize for completing this event is a Bud Light, a Brat, and a place on a wall of fame. The real prize, however, will be the start of something that is critically important to maintaining and growing the best quality care that we can provide at Golisano Children’s Hospital.” 
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If you would like to join the Talon’s Challenge or if you know someone or if you would like to participate in a future challenge, please contact Kate Ackerman for more information. Participants are responsible for their own costs as 100% of sponsorship donations will be directed to the Golisano Children’s Hospital Challenge Fund.
About Dr. Ackerman
Dr. Kate Ackerman is a pediatric critical care physician and researcher at Golisano Children’s Hospital. Her medical research focuses on the identification of causes of disease resulting in critical illness. She is a nationally recognized physician scientist who is passionate about the advancement of medical research by improvement of collaborations across multidisciplinary teams. Kate is an avid skier and is a National Ski Patrol Alpine Patroller and Medical Advisor at the Hunt Hollow Ski Club.