February Man of the Month: Dan Miller

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we are proud to announce our February Man of the Month…Dan Miller. There is no greater gift of love than saving a life. Happy Valentine’s Day!

On the topic of organ donation, Dan Miller had a consistent message: “Do the research.”
For Dan, a healthy, 20-year-old junior at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., this meant seeking out the evidence needed to justify the life-changing decision of whether to donate a kidney to someone he’d never met.
Dan talked to his sister, Lauren Miller, who had successfully undergone the same procedure in December 2014 and had already overcome the judgement of skeptics, challenging her decision.
Dan read the statistics about how each year nearly 5,000 people die after being left on an 100,000-plus long waiting list for a kidney transplant. He visited specialists to determine if he had the physical, emotional and mental capacity to withstand the risks of living with one kidney.
For Dan, our February Disruptive Women Man of the Month, the research he did overwhelmingly pointed in one direction: saving another person’s life. And in December, days before Christmas, he did just that.
“It was really just the shock of finding out the really serious need for this kind of stuff that motivated me to do it,” Dan said. “You really just have to make people aware that there is information out there, the research has been done, there’s literature that can be read, and you can learn ...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Source Type: blogs