Hope Center member Anne H. Cross, M.D., believes anything in life that's worthwhile is hard. "Like
Winston Churchill said, 'Never give up; never, never, never,'" she says.

Photo by Bob Boston

Anne H. Cross, M.D., tests the reflexes of patient David Chapman for a clinical trial. "I like taking care of patients who have the disease that I study in the laboratory," she says. "And they like it, too. It gives them hope, and it helps keep me motivated."

Cross not only embraces challenges, but she's also inspired by them. When three of her classmates during medical training developed the debilitating and then-untreatable neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS), Cross decided to focus her studies on finding a cure.

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