Department: Extraordinary People

Susan Bryson wants to make identification and treatment for autism happen faster and sooner.

Reflecting on the life lessons taught by a young doctor who learned that she had a brain tumor.

Who discovered the causes of TB and cholera?

Victims of abuse often carry their pain with them. Carol Stalker, a social worker/professor, helps to ease it.

Who founded the American Red Cross?

Imagine, not clinical detachment but a therapist who cries with you. Elena Avila is a Curandera who meets your spiritual as well as your physical needs.

Hope for women requiring open-heart surgery.

Considered the founder of modern nursing, she was also a statistician!

Nurse Anita Fisher knows the secret to successfully working abroad, and she's happy to share it.

A volunteer knows that pay doesn't always come in check form.

While working with MSF, a Canadian doctor sees that a world of difference exists between her original view of "hospital" and that which others experience.

From Q fever to Ebola, when there's a dangerous outbreak, Marta Guerra is on the disease's trail.

Kids put on a show for other kids about how to prevent diabetes.

Dying with dignity seems like a simple request – Dr. Balfour Mount wants to make sure it really is.

Psychologist Martin Gittelman helped to establish mental health programs for schizophrenics around the world.

This kids' book writer knows her readers – she's a child psychiatrist!

As Joseph Murray discovered, acting is the perfect counterbalance to the hectic life of a paramedic.

When Dr. Jock Murray saw that the human side was missing from medical education, he created his own program.

At a camp in Uganda, an MSF doctor's decisions not only include who is treated first, but who has a chance at life and who doesn't.

For kids, reading's less scary when a four-legged friend is listening.