Desi Lydic

You serve on, you were the president of the board at Children's Hospital LA.

Yes, I was the president of the board for three years, and then you can only do three years, and so then, you know, I always tell them I would never.

You're saying they have term limits?

Yes, they have term limits.

They're very, very, very smart.

You should look into that.

That is a good, that's a...

The leadership at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, they know what they're doing.

So after that, they came to me and said, we would love for you to co-chair our largest fundraising initiative to date, which honors 125 years of saving the lives of children.

And so part of that, we are raising $1.25 billion.

And this is...

Just to keep our doors open in today's climate when it comes to health care and here's the thing that's so critical you know why Los Angeles why should we give back to a pediatric hospital in Los Angeles because it serves kids in all 50 states and in 90 countries we are the fifth top specialty hospital in the world.

So we see the sickest children, the most vulnerable children.

I personally have had children moved from, you know, Baltimore, Montana, Colorado, to come and get heart surgeries to get all kinds of care.

And specifically the research and innovation that comes out of our hospital, I mean, for our pediatric oncology division with Dr. Alan Wayne, I mean, at this point in time, I mean, in the 70s, kids with leukemia, there was a 10% survival rate, and now it's 90%.

because of research and innovation

And my Bennett, my Bennett personally, he had four really critical heart defects.

And Dr. Von Starnes, usually they have to fix them in two back-to-back open heart surgeries.

He figured out how to do it in one.

And so now Bennett was a case study that they published and sent out to every pediatric institution in the country.