- MCW School of Pharmacy
Paying Care Forward
Holly Maize says she is one of the lucky ones. She was born with a myelomeningocele, the most severe form of spina bifida (spinal dysraphism) that occurs when the spine and spinal cord don’t form properly.
“I should be wheelchair-bound and things like that, but I defied those odds,” says Maize, who credits her health to the care she received at Children’s Wisconsin and from specialists from Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW).
It wasn’t an easy road, she acknowledges. Shunt breaks, multiple brain and orthopedic surgeries, and constant hourlong trips with her parents from her hometown of Delavan, Wisconsin, to meet with specialists in Milwaukee. But she’s overcome many of her challenges, and as an undergrad at Purdue University in Indiana working toward her pharmaceutical sciences degree, she decided that she wanted to give back.
“I wanted to come back to Milwaukee because Children’s and the Medical College of Wisconsin have done so much for me,” Maize explains. “I really wanted to come back and be around the environment again.”
It just so happened that MCW was opening a pharmacy school in 2017, and the rest is history...
