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When Valerie T. Terzano, PhD, RN, reflects on her 42-year nursing career at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, she’s hopeful for the future. As vice president of nursing and patient care services, she fostered a community of acceptance and love. In 2016, Val founded the hospital’s LGBTQ Advisory Committee. A steadfast advocate of patients and employees, she wears the rainbow pin with pride. She also created Forever Heart, a program where a patient at end of life is given a gemstone heart to hold,

When NYU Langone Health surgeons met 17-year-old Byamba Erdene-Amgalan during a surgical mission to Mongolia, he was living with a life-threatening jaw injury that couldn’t be treated with the equipment available. Knowing they could help, the team arranged for him to travel to New York for lifesaving care. Byamba had developed the injury after surgery to remove a benign tumor. Surgeons in Mongolia reconstructed his jaw with a metal plate, but as he grew, the hardware didn’t. It eventually began