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When Grace Mooney-Melvin, MSW, LICSW, joined the M Health Fairview Pediatric Cardiology team in July 2025, she brought with her more than a decade of experience helping patients and families navigate complex medical journeys. After years of working with adults in dialysis and bone marrow transplant programs, Grace felt ready for a new challenge—and a new opportunity to make a difference. “I wanted to expand my knowledge in a new specialty and population,” she shares. “This ro

We are excited to welcome Megan Fraser to our Second Chance for Life Board of Directors. Meg has been a nurse practitioner for 11 years...

We’d like to extend a heartfelt welcome to Makala Nitkowski. Makala joins Angela Herr as a heart transplant/mechanical circulatory...

Matt Johnson was diagnosed with congenital heart defects shortly after birth. He battled heart issues throughout his life, undergoing...

Interviews with some of the U of M Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologists. Dr. Thennapan Thennapan Can you tell us a bit...

The birth of the Hero Hustle In the small northwestern Minnesota town of Oklee, population 435, a long five-hour drive from the...

Glen Kelley shares his story and the Second Chance for Life Foundation in the Journal of Heart Failure ​Second Chance for Life...

U of M Social Workers Angela and Natalia Partner with Second Chance for Life When social worker Angela Herr asks her young son what his...