Valerie Sobel

Valerie Sobel

Since 2000, Sobel has worked to make known the quiet suffering of single caregivers through the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation, or ASRL, which bears the name of her son. After losing Andre in his teens to an inoperable brain tumor, Sobel reflected on her life...
Joe Garagiola

Joe Garagiola

Half a century ago, Joe Garagiola played baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals and witnessed firsthand the danger of “spit” tobacco use. Since then, the anti-tobacco movement has grown in strength, yet the focus has largely been on cigarettes. In the...
Roger Sorg

Roger Sorg

After nearly 35 years with a bustling pathology practice, Roger Sorg refocused his medical skills on primary care. Sorg’s new focus led him to develop one of the first Volunteers-in-Medicine (VIM) clinics on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. As an interest...
Barbara Beach

Barbara Beach

Kathy Hull, a clinical psychologist, and Barbara Beach, a pediatric oncologist, met while colleagues at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland working with terminally ill children and their families. Both women had long lamented the limited options...
Grace Butler

Grace Butler

At 65, Butler had a successful career as a professor in higher education institutions and associate vice president of faculty affairs at the University of Houston. In April 1999, her life changed forever. Butler was stricken with Stage III colon cancer and was forced...