Gratitude and Trust
I’ve been thinking about these two words recently. Yesterday marked the 17th anniversary since my lobectomy surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. This deeply personal experience has led me to embrace gratitude and trust as key components to both my personal life and career. So I’m in kind of a unique position to hopefully make an impact on the world. I have abundant gratitude personally for being a lung cancer survivor. And I sincerely believe trust is the foundation of every relationship, every encounter in my personal and professional life. My motivation and commitment are based on sincere interest in helping move cancer research from the laboratory to the patient bedside, because I have been there. It defines me. This is the blending of my personal story and my professional life. Gratitude and Trust . Gratitude: Surviving cancer…what could you be more grateful for? But it’s more than that. It has made me appreciate everything. My gratitude is e