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Nina Pickett

Nina Pickett

Senior Director, Pediatrics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and inaugural board chair of the Sunrise Association.

Sep 29, 2026

4:53
What is it about Sunrise to you that makes the magic?
4:59
The campers.
5:01
It's the campers.
5:07
When...
5:08
When I would be asked, like, how can you work with these children? Like, isn't it sad? Isn't it this? Isn't it that? I'd be like, no, I don't like working with adults who are sick because their illness becomes who they are.
5:26
And with children, they're children and they want to be children.
5:31
And so even in the worst of the hospital situations, They'd be in street clothes.

7 MINS LATER

12:20
Does what we're doing here help these children manage their illness and how? Well,

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