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Three-Time Living Organ Donor Hopes to Inspire Others to Donate
Robin Stanley
Anthony Cernera has dedicated his professional life to helping others as director of philanthropy for St. Vincent’s Medical Center (https://stvincents.org/) in Bridgeport. In 2015, when he saw a friend post on Facebook about donating a kidney (https://healthnewshub.org/fighting-for-those-who-cant-fight-for-themselves-this-transplant-surgeons-mission/) to a friend’s son, he saw the opportunity to make it part of his personal life as well.
“She said, ‘I’m going to do this thing that’s going to be a little inconvenient for me for a few days, but I’m going to save somebody’s life,’” Cernera recalled.
Inspired by that friend, Cernera has since made three living organ donations (https://healthnewshub.org/the-wait-ends-dramatically-for-glastonbury-kidney-transplant-recipient/) – a kidney to a stranger named Lance in 2016, followed by stem cells to a leukemia patient in 2017, and most recently, a portion of his liver to another stranger, Martin, in 2020.
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