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Three-Time Living Organ Donor Hopes to Inspire Others to Donate

April 27, 2022Hartford Hospital

Inspired by a friend’s Facebook post about donating a kidney to a friend’s son, Anthony Cernera has since made three living organ donations – 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

Hartford Hospital Transplant Center

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