Employee Stories

As executive director of Supply Chain Services at Children's National Hospital, Ashley E. Wilson, MHSA, has rebuilt our supply replenishment processes into the Bear Bin program, which delivers supplies effectively and efficiently to front-line clinicians.

Beth Jarosz, RN, MS, has been at Children’s National for more than 26 years and has worked in areas such as the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Cardiology. Learn about her work and one award she has won. 

Calvin Burke never planned on a nursing career. But today as a crisis nurse, he is a problem solver — he stabilizes trauma patients and safely transports complex, critically ill children.

Pediatric anesthesiologist Carroll Vazquez-Colon, M.D., provides safe anesthesia and pain management to patients undergoing surgery at Children's National.

Cassandra "Sandy" Charity has kept compassion at the center of her work at Children's National Hospital for an incredible 40 years. She proudly cares for children when they come in for their scans and radiology appointments, helping them get comfortable with the MRI, CT and nuclear medicine machines.

Charles Fleming, RN, BScN, CPN, is a nurse navigator for the Children’s National Heart Institute, facilitating care for complex and urgent cardiology patients and serving as a single point of contact for referring providers.

Care that Colleen Iler provides in the heart transplant clinic includes shepherding patients through visits with doctors, social workers, psychologists, dieticians and pharmacists and sometimes, palliative care.

When Courtney M. Jones, RN, BSN, began her career in labor and delivery, she found herself drawn to teenage mothers. So when she moved to school nursing, she knew a high school was the place for her.

Craig Woodside always wanted to be in the medical profession, but it took him a bit of trial and error to find the right patients.

"His future depended on the transplant, and I knew I had to do something to help," school nurse Deborah Owens, LPN, says. Learn how Owens went on to educate a community and save one child's life through bone marrow transplantation.