Nicole Newman and Eleanor Reiner have been best friends since they met in middle school at a Baltimore-area dance camp, where they also served as counselors when they were in high school. “We loved working together, and we loved working with kids,” Reiner says. But they had no firm plans for the future until they happened upon a life-changing two-week mentorship program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital during their senior year.
This high school mentorships program in the pediatric operating rooms was launched 10 years ago by ACCM Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Aileen Mendez and Soo Ok Kim.