Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Peter Mansfield, Former Seattle Children’s Chief of Surgery
In honor of the late Dr. Peter Mansfield, former Seattle Children’s Chief of Surgery, his wife, Jackie Mansfield, has established a fund directly benefitting the Invent at Seattle Children’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program (Invent@SC), which is an investment in training for early career scientists historically underrepresented in or excluded from biotech in the development of therapeutics for childhood conditions.
Jackie also generously donated memorabilia from Dr. Mansfield’s career at Seattle Children’s in the 1970s-1980s to be displayed at the hospital.
The memorabilia includes a letter from USSR thanking him for saving a boy’s life flown in from Georgia, Russia, papers he wrote about wanting to establish something similar to the Invent program during his career, his pediatric pacemaker prototypes, which were the first of their kind, and more.
On the Pulse sat down with Jackie to learn more about Dr. Mansfield, his career and why the Invent program would have meant so much to him.