Staff Stories

When Jessica Smidt conducts interviews, she looks for certain must-have traits in her candidates: reliability, predictability, friendliness and, perhaps most importantly, a "happy tail." That[...]

Debbie Daugherty was driving home from work shortly before Christmas a couple years back when she noticed a U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots program[...]

The patient was scheduled for surgery at Mayo Clinic's Rochester campus the next day. Her nurse, noticing the woman seemed "very anxious" about her procedure,[...]

On the day he was born, Marcus Nichols had already beaten the odds. Marcus and his twin, Mathieu, shared a single amniotic sac — a[...]

Robert Key, M.D., and his brother Tim were fishing on Caribou Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness shortly after sunrise on Sept. 21,[...]

Some people read about their heroes. Diane Salentiny Wrobleski becomes hers, channeling famous nurses as a way to educate and inspire others. “I love nursing,[...]

Since becoming a nurse in 1989 at what would become Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Juliann Johannsen has seen a little bit of[...]

We'd have liked to be sitting where Nancy Cummings, M.D., set up shop as she watched the Minnesota Lynx claim the WNBA championship earlier this[...]

After finishing college and medical school in his native Ohio, and five years of residency in Chicago, Laurence Nace, M.D., could have gone in a[...]

Cynthia Nelson Weiss, part of Mayo Clinic's Public Affairs team in Florida, takes her communications role seriously when it comes to awareness-raising events and promotions.[...]