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Parents Of Fairfield Girl With Incurable Brain Condition Award $30K Scholarship To Med Student Parents Of Fairfield Girl With Incurable Brain Condition Award $30K Scholarship To Med Student
Parents Of Fairfield Girl With Incurable Brain Condition Award $30K Scholarship To Med Student A medical student in Connecticut was awarded a scholarship funded with monies raised by family and friends of a  six-year-old Fairfield girl with an incurable brain condition. The student is Ashley Dunbar at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University.  The Reagan Sloane Shanley Scholarship is named for Reagan Shanley who was diagnosed with hydrocephalus at 9 months and had two brain surgeries before she turned 18 months. She was treated with an alternative surgery called Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy to create a bypass for the cerebr…

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by Donna Christopher