Special Screening: Of Medicine and Miracles

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Join us for a special screening of Of Medicine and Miracles at the Milton Hershey School Purcell Friendship Hall in Hershey, PA on Monday, November 21, 2022! Light refreshments will be served. A raffle will be held for gift baskets.

• 6:00 PM - Doors Open
• 7:00 PM - Screening Starts

This feature documentary, directed by Academy-Award winner Ross Kauffman and produced by Academy-Award nominee Robin Honan, highlights the incredible story of Dr. Carl June, Dr. Stephan Grupp, Emily Whitehead, and the teams at Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia coming together to make medical history with the development of CAR T-cell therapy.

Emily Whitehead was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in May 2010 when she was five years old. She began her treatment at Penn State Health Children's Hospital in Hershey, PA. When her leukemia became resistant to treatment, and her doctors at Hershey had exhausted all treatment options available to them at the time, Emily's parents transferred her to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. There, Emily was enrolled in a clinical trial for an experimental new treatment and became the first pediatric patient in the world to receive CAR T-cell therapy. 

Of Medicine and Miracles premiered in June 2022 at the Tribeca Film Festival.