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George Washington University Student Stem-Cell Donor Meets Recipient at Gift of Life Event
March 13, 2006
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GW student Amy Fishman meets Marty Feldman, who received her life-saving donation of blood stem cells last year after they were matched by the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry.Hillel and the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry recently celebrated the extraordinary success of their partnership by introducing the very first donor recruited on a campus to the man whose life she saved. The donor, Amy Fishman, joined the registry when she came upon a recruitment drive coordinated by the Hillel at George Washington University in the fall of 2004. Just two months later, Amy became very first student recruited through the formal Hillel-Gift of Life partnership, which began in 2004, to match a patient who needed a transplant. Without hesitation, she donated her blood stem cells to a 60-year-old man with leukemia. One year later, Fishman met the recipient, Martin Feldman, at lunch hosted by Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston.

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