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About Stephanie Marks
Stephanie Jane Marks was born at St. Peter’s Hospital in 1984 and died in June 2002. She was only 17. Stephanie had Type 1 diabetes for six years and sadly died as a result of complications.
Friends and family describe her as vibrant, loving, caring and positive. Above all this, she epitomised optimism; to Stephanie, diabetes was merely a stumbling block that she would easily overcome in pursuit of her dream of becoming a doctor.
The Stephanie Marks Appeal was launched in June 2003 by Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust with the aim of raising awareness of diabetes and providing funding to create a specialist Resource Centre, together with a series of satellite clinics that will be established with the help of GPs who have a special interest in diabetes. The purpose is to provide first-class local accessibility to diabetes treatment, education and research, in a ground breaking ’hub and spoke’ model of care.
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”It is every parent’s worst nightmare to lose a child – especially suddenly and unexpectedly – but when Dr. Mike Baxter first asked us whether he could try to establish a leading Diabetes Specialist Unit within the Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust by launching an Appeal in our beloved eldest daughter's name with a determination to name the Unit after her, we were overwhelmed but at the same time immensely proud that something potentially so good and positive could possibly come from something so terrible.Sue, Victoria, Charlotte, Andrew and I would like to take the opportunity of thanking those who have already helped and to ask for the help, however great or small, to make the Stephanie Marks Appeal a real success; to bring about a part of her dream and to leave a lasting memorial to her within her chosen profession”.
Chris Marks, Stephanie’s Father
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For further information, to purchase tickets for an event, or to request a leaflet, please call 01932 722330 or email: val.levy@asph.nhs.uk
The Stephanie Marks Appeal, Communications and Fundraising, The Studio, Ashford & St Peter’s NHS Trust, Guildford Road, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 0PZ
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