Ms. Wong met 28-year-old Brandon Seminatore in August. Mr. Seminatore, a second-year pediatric resident completing a child neurology residency at Stanford University, had joined Ms. Wong’s team.
“I asked who he was and his name, and [the] last name sounded very familiar,” Ms. Wong said.”I kept asking where he was from, and he told me that he was from San Jose, California, and that, as a matter of fact, he was a premature baby born at our hospital.”
When Mr. Seminatore started his residency at Packard Children’s, his mother asked him to look for nurse Vilma in the NICU.
“Meeting Vilma was a surreal experience,” he said. “When Vilma recognized my name, it truly sunk in that I was one of these babies. I’ve come full-circle, and I’m taking care of babies with the nurse that took care of me.”
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