A legacy that helps kids breathe easier
Nelson Ku loved science, sports and making people laugh … until an asthma attack took his life during lacrosse practice in early 2024. Determined to turn their heartbreak into something meaningful, his parents set out to help prevent other families from experiencing the loss of a child due to asthma.
Passionate about helping local children, Nelson's father, Peter Ku, D.D.S., a long-time Fort Worth dentist and a member of the Board of Trustees for Cook Children's Health Care System, and his mother, Beth, partnered with Cook Children's to create a high-risk asthma clinic in his honor.
The Nelson Ku High-Risk Asthma Program focuses on families whose children face the greatest challenges managing asthma. The goal of the program is to identify and address the barriers to asthma care and provide families and patients the education and tools they need to reduce the severity of their attacks and the need for hospitalization. Through knowledge, tools and ongoing support, this clinic is helping children breathe easier.
Today, Nelson's laughter lives on through his family and the children with asthma whose lives are made better through this program.
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