In his seventh annual donation to Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Melvin Sheppard and family stopped by to donate $394.06 in pennies at the NICU on December 19. Melvin, now 15, was born at Cooper 9 weeks premature, weighing only 2.9 pounds. The Moorestown teenager, who has collected more than $2,000 over the years, poses with Cooper staff and this year’s donation.
From left to right: Rakesh Sharma, MD, Neonatology; Melvin C. Sheppard; mom Denise Sheppard; dad Melvin Nathaniel Sheppard; Robyn Harvey, Senior Director of Patient Care Services; Melvin’s classmate Ali Rohrback; Judy Saslow, MD, Associate Director of Neonatal Services; Michael Goodman, MD, Chief, Department of Pediatrics; Gary Stahl, MD, Head, Division of Neonatology; Joanne Fox, Clinical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Erik Brandsma, MD, Neonatology; and Gretchen Lawhon, Clinical Nurse Scientist, Department of Pediatrics.