Children’s Health

Dallas-Fort Worth Innovation Breakthroughs Mark 2025 Awards

D CEO and Dallas Innovates' Innovation Award winners are working to resurrect extinct species, launching autonomous trucks, reinventing military aircraft, and bringing AI into the physical world—and that's just the beginning. The 2025 awards showcase game-changing achievements—including Texas' first newly minted decacorn—across 17 categories of innovation. Here’s a look at the innovators leading the way.
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Finalists Announced for The Innovation Awards 2025, Presented by D CEO and Dallas Innovates
The Innovation Awards 2025 recognizes 76 companies and trailblazers paving the way for the future of innovation in North Texas. Here's who made the finalists list.
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Children’s Health, UTSW Break Ground on $5B Dallas Pediatric Campus, Announce $100M Donation from Rees‑Jones Foundation
by | Oct 2, 2024
Children's Health and UT Soutwestern announced that a $100 million gift from The Rees-Jones Foundation will support the construction of the new pediatric campus, just months after the Jean and Mack Pogue family gave its own $100 million gift. This marks the first time in Texas that a not-for-profit construction project has received two individual leadership gifts of $100 million.
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Children’s Health, Investing Partners Back Pieces Technologies With $25M to Advance AI in Hospital Care
by | Sep 10, 2024
"Our mission is to help those who help others," says Pieces Technologies CEO Dr. Ruben Amarasingham. With $25M in growth funding, Dallas-based Pieces is gearing up to transform hospital care with AI that streamlines clinical workflows and eases the load on care teams.
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Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Are Bringing a $5B New Pediatric Campus to Dallas

by | Feb 7, 2024
The new campus in Dallas' Southwestern Medical District will "enhance our shared capacity to provide comprehensive care for children, including those with the most complex medical and surgical needs," said Christopher Durovich, president and CEO of Children's Health.
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North Texas IT Excellence: DallasCISO and DallasCIO ORBIE Awards to Honor Top Tech Leaders in Consecutive Events
by | Feb 2, 2024

The ORBIE Awards are set to recognize North Texas’ top information technology talent with back-to-back award events on Feb. 8 and 9. The DallasCISO and DallasCIO ORBIE Awards events will spotlight chief information security officers (CISOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) driving innovation and shaping the digital landscape at major North Texas organizations....

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A Hospital Is Helping Kids To Perform Heart Transplants in Frisco (Sort Of)
by | Oct 16, 2023
Scanning someone's brain with an MRI machine may not seem like child's play. But kids will have the opportunity to do that and much more—on mannequins, that is—at a new Children's Health Hospital experience at KidZania Dallas in Frisco.
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Topgolf Takes a ‘Swing Fore Childhood Cancer’ at Locations Nationwide
by | Sep 24, 2023
Hosted during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the fundraiser will be held this Thursday at Topgolf and Suite Shots locations across the nation, including Texas, California, Louisiana, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Dakota, and Tennessee.
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The Last Word: How To Tackle Mental Health Issues Impacting Texas Youth

Concern has swept the nation since COVID hit about the pandemic's lasting affects on the mental health of children and adolescents. But that mental health crisis has actually been worsening for years, even before the pandemic. The Dallas Morning News' Marin Wolf explores what Children’s Health, UT Southwestern, Cook Children's, and Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute are doing to get ahead of the problem.
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UTSW Researchers’ Discovery About Gut Bacteria May Improve Cancer Treatments
by | Mar 9, 2023
The researchers discovered how healthy bacteria can escape the intestine, travel to lymph nodes and cancerous tumors elsewhere in the body, and boost the effectiveness of certain immunotherapy drugs. “Now we understand that mechanism much better and, in the future, hope to use this knowledge to better fight cancer," said UT Southwestern's Andrew Y. Koh, M.D.
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Here Are the Winners of The Innovation Awards 2023
by | Jan 17, 2023
Dallas Innovates and D CEO celebrated 68 honorees and revealed the winners of our fourth-annual Innovation Awards at an event held at On the Levee in the Dallas Design District. Here's a full list of winners and finalists.
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DRC Names 3 Companies in Best Places for Working Parents Dallas Innovator Awards
by | Dec 22, 2022

The Dallas Regional Chamber has named three local companies as recipients of the inaugural Best Place for Working Parents Dallas Innovator Awards.

The companies are:

Micro/Small Business (under 200 employees): Barnes & Thornburg

Medium Business (between 201 and 999 employees): Corgan

Large Business (more than 1,000 employees): Children’s Health

The Best Place for Working Parents Dallas is a local partner of the Best Place for Working Parents national initiative that recognizes family-friendly workplaces in the Dallas Region through a proprietary business self-assessment and it seeks to raise awareness of the importance of family-friendly benefits and policies for employers and workers, the DRC said....

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Follow the Money: Southlake Biotech Raises $14.9M, American Airlines Invests in Innovative Engine Maker, and More

by | Aug 8, 2022
Plus: 7-Eleven acquires last-mile delivery startup; American Heart Association invests in $43M healthcare innovation fund; Fort Worth real estate investors raise $32.4M for new fund; Dallas College Lands $8.8M to boost biotech workforce; UT Southwestern researchers land funding for hypothermia therapy study; and more North Texas deals.
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From Automated Airport Parking to On-Demand Rides, North Texas Boosts Autonomous Vehicle Capabilities
by | Mar 24, 2022
NCTCOG's Regional Transportation Council believes autonomous vehicles are part of the solution to North Texas' future.

From autonomous parking at DFW airport to self-driving DART shuttles to medication deliveries in McKinney—along with local hubs for Kodiak Robotics, Aurora, and TuSimple—the region could prove to be the "most robust, automated, and connected vehicle ecosystem in the country," says one official.
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Meet the Finalists: The Innovation Awards 2022, Presented by Dallas Innovates and D CEO
Now in its third year, the program from Dallas Innovates and D CEO honors 78 disruptors and trailblazers driving a new vision for innovation in North Texas.
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Innov8 4 Kids Children's Health Hackathan
Ready, Set, Innov8:
Teens, Adults Invited To Hack for Pediatric Health Care Quandaries
by | Jun 8, 2021
Put your problem-solving chops to work. The Children's Health event encourages gamification, augmented reality to solve for age-old pediatric health care problems.

There's even a no-code challenge.
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