Dr. Kevin Churchwell

Well, it's a pleasure to be here, and thank you for the opportunity, Megan.

A little bit about Boston Children's Hospital.

We just finished celebrating last year our 150th anniversary.

And so we're not the oldest children's hospital in the nation, but we're close to it.

And we have had a incredible journey in terms of our care for children.

Boston Children's Hospital, by one measure, is looked at as one of the leading children's hospitals in the world.

U.S.

News and World Report does a piece of ranking every year.

And for at least the past 10 years or so, we've been ranked number one.

Now, I say that only just to give folks a view of what we try to do at Boston Children's.

And that number one ranking, although it's nice to have, I think just describes in some respects the depth of what we try to do at Boston Children's in terms of what we provide.

We work to be the leader in pediatrics, in pediatric research, pediatric clinical care, pediatric education, and our work in the community.

And over the 150 years, we have been intentional around what we have tried to recruit to and wanted to develop from that standpoint.

That's our mission here, and that's what we continue to work toward.

My relationship to Boston Children's, to be honest with you, Megan, is not an eight-year journey, but more like 30 years.

I first arrived at Boston Children's to do my internship and residency back in the 80s.

and spent over eight years here in my training.

I did when I practiced pediatric critical care and spent two years on staff before I left and returned about eight years ago with the opportunity of being the EVP of Health Affairs and Chief Operating Officer.

That's a great question.

The early days of the pandemic were days that were a bit confusing, but we worked to provide clarity, especially early on.