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12481 Ladue Rd
St. Louis, MO 63141-8100
(314) 434-5650
12481 Ladue Rd
St. Louis, MO 63141-8100
(314) 434-5650
How Matt’s Hats got started… At 9 years old Matthew Williams,was diagnosed with a stage three ependymoma brain tumor. At St. Louis Children’s Hospital, he had an 8 hour surgery. Then he stayed in the hospital for three days. He had to return to St. Louis for three months to have radiation treatments. He started collecting hats as a way to hide his baldness. He collected over 200 hats through friends and other help. Today, he is cancer free and trying to find a way to reach out to other childhood cancer patients. The hats you see today are part of his collection. He has started an effort called Matt’s Hats, to collect hats and money to be given to research and patients at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. In the future he hopes to assist other hospitals and patients.
Staff: Vickie Wilks, Managing Director Liz Hare, Director of Programs Ashley Wightman, Communications Coordinator Lynn Burgdorf, Database Coordinator (Part-time)
4 decades ago, when our founder was one of 15 children in a group home, a rock band invited all the children in the facility to attend their show. Afterwards they ushered the children backstage to meet the musicians and for one brief moment, the kids were the band's special guests. For one shining second they weren’t "foster children" at all but rather featured attendees. Despite the ravages of foster care, broken placements, lost families and constant threat of physical/emotional abuse, this tiny act of kindness combined with the HEALING properties of music, profoundly reconnected the children back to themselves and all that is good in humanity. It exposed them to the sacred within and they beamed on the bus ride back to the residential facility, humming the music and dreaming of being a PART rather than APART.
The Padda Institute fuses the latest technologically advanced skin care treatments and products with our professional team of highly trained licensed aestheticians, under the direction of Gurpreet Padda, M.D. Our beautiful, state-of-the-art facility features three treatment rooms, a private operating room, along with a consultation and educational area, where our dedicated staff utilizes a personalized skin analysis using clinical-grade digital images to highlight problem areas, to guarantee superior clinical expertise. After formulating a personal, specialized treatment plan, our experts explain the benefits of each treatment, involving only the industry-leading equipment combined with our private medical grade skincare line, which is only available to physicians, to provide each patient with cutting edge technologies to address their every need.