United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) named James “Jim” Gleason of Beverly, NJ, the winner of its 2019 National Donor Memorial Award for Excellence in recognition of his untiring efforts as a donation advocate.
The unselfish act of organ donation is one of the most compassionate things one human being can do for another.
At age 39 my kidneys began to fail. By the time I went on dialysis I couldn’t even hold a hair dryer over my head.
He didn’t save just three lives—he started with mine.
