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George Washington University Student Stem-Cell Donor Meets Recipient at Gift of Life Event
March 13, 2006Comments (0) | Add | E-mail this to a friend  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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