The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine volition erstwhile again clasp the yearly Docs for Morgan fundraiser successful person, with a hoops crippled pitting VTCSOM aesculapian students against Carilion Clinic residents and physicians. The lawsuit volition instrumentality spot Wednesday, Feb. 1, astatine 7 p.m. astatine the Patrick Henry High School gymnasium connected Grandin Road successful Roanoke. Admission is escaped and unfastened to the public; donations are encouraged.
The event, which supports the Morgan Dana Harrington Memorial Scholarship Fund astatine VTCSOM, has been held successful antithetic formats successful caller years due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It truly means truthful overmuch that we tin beryllium backmost successful idiosyncratic and invited a assemblage to cheer connected the students and physicians arsenic they conflict it retired connected the tribunal for a large cause,” said Tracey Criss, an subordinate dean for objective subject astatine the aesculapian school, successful a quality merchandise astir the fundraiser.
Morgan Harrington worked arsenic an intern astatine VTCSOM portion a rising inferior astatine Virginia Tech. Following her tragic decease successful 2009, the outpouring of enactment from VTCSOM, Virginia Tech, Carilion Clinic and the assemblage helped the Harringtons connected their way of healing. In grant of Morgan’s life, they created the Morgan Dana Harrington Memorial Scholarship astatine the aesculapian school. Morgan’s father, Dan Harrington, precocious retired from his relation arsenic vice dean of VTCSOM, wherever helium played an integral relation successful establishing the school.
The archetypal Docs for Morgan hoops crippled was held successful 2013. The crippled and different fundraising efforts person helped the Harrington Memorial Scholarship make much than $500,000 to payment students astatine VTCSOM.
“This lawsuit is truly astir honoring Morgan and supporting the Harrington family,” Criss continued. “Over the years it has brought unneurotic the aesculapian school, community, and Carilion Clinic. It’s thing we look guardant to each year.”
The Roanoke Times
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