December 13, 2023
Alice Schoen (left), Dana Colasante and Dr. Christa Miliaresis, a pediatric cardiologist, pose for a photo at the national Project ADAM convention in Philadelphia in May 2023. The Rye Brook women and the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital are founders and facilitators of first Project ADAM branch in New York, a program that works to ensure school districts are prepared to handle sudden cardiac arrest emergencies.
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Alice Schoen and Dana Colasante bonded over being two of the lucky ones. In December 2017, Schoen’s son Jordan collapsed on the basketball court at Pelham High School, jarring the Rye Brook community as a Blind Brook High School senior Trojan who seemed in perfectly good health before. And in the aftermath, as Schoen coped with the scare, Colasante was one of the few who could empathize with her experience—she, too, had a loved one who brushed hands with death when her husband fell to the ground while coaching a youth soccer practice in 2013 on the King Street Field.
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