Photographic Moment

Providing HOPE

Congressional staffers visited the NCI-CCR Pediatric Oncology Branch and the Children’s Inn at NIH on May 29 to learn more about NIH’s efforts in combating childhood cancer. Pictured left to right are Dana Richter, senior policy advisor to Senator Shelley Moore Capito (West Virginia); Meg Barnes, senior legislative assistant to Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (New Jersey); Andrew Karasick, Brookings Institution LEGIS Congressional Fellow to Representative Kim Schrier (Washington); Jill Boland, senior health advisor to Senator Jack Reed (Rhode Island); Jennie Lucca, chief executive officer, the Children’s Inn at NIH; Zilly, official therapy dog of the Children’s Inn at NIH; Kenneth Downs, legislative correspondent to Senator Chris Van Hollen (Maryland); NCI Director Kimryn Rathmell; Harsh Patel, health policy advisor to Representative Ami Bera (California); Laura Bell, legislative director to Representative Susan Wild (Pennsylvania); Kathleen Bochow, legislative correspondent to Senator John Boozman (Arkansas); and Rhett Styles, legislative assistant to Representative Michael McCaul (Texas).