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On Saturday, I'm shaving my head bald. Want to help? :-)
Over the last five years, the St. Baldrick's Foundation effort has become the world's largest volunteer-driven fundraising effort supporting childhood cancer research. Last year, thousands of volunteers shaved their heads to raise over twelve million dollars. Money that supported hundreds of physicians and scientists nationwide fighting to help kids with cancer. This year, they hope to do more. And on Saturday, I'll be one of them. :-) 
This year, a team of us docs at Wash U / St. Louis Children's will be shaving our heads bald to help raise money to fight cancer in kids. We're joining the thousands of others across the country as part of the national St. Baldrick's Foundation effort. And I would like to humbly ask for your support. One of the awesome things about biomedical research is that little bits of money -- five dollars, even one dollar -- make a real difference. Progress in molecular biology is made in little steps -- one ten-dollar experiment here, one twenty dollar experiment there. A dollar buys a cell culture dish. Five buys an analytical enzyme reaction. Every discovery in molecular biology -- every victory in the fight against cancer -- is made of exactly those little steps. You can help make a real difference in the fight against cancer even with the smallest donation. Because those small little steps is exactly how we make progress. We'll together scale the cliffs to a world without children with cancer, one step at a time. So, Saturday, I'll be one of hundreds here in St. Louis shaving our heads to help raise money to fight cancer. The following Monday, I will be assuming clinical duty on the cancer wards here at Wash U. / St. Louis Children's, helping care for these brave kids and their families. And I hope that I might someday earn my own spurs as a kid's cancer doc, as a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist. I hope to earn the right to join the fight as a physican-scientist for a world where no child ever suffers or dies from cancer, ever again. It's a world right there on the horizon -- almost within reach. And it's a world we'll get to, together. So if you can spare a few bucks to help support me in this effort, I'd really appreciate it. Doesn't matter how much -- every little bit counts, every little bit makes a difference. You can click here to donate online. (If you could drop me an e-mail letting me know so I can thank you, I'd appreciate that, too.) And for your support, for your donations, and most of all, for your friendship; thank you very much. For everything. You, me, all of us -- together, we'll fight. And together, we'll win. :-)
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