When I was first diagnosed with Glioblastoma in 2011, my first mentor shared with me that: “There are always people in the 1% that survive, and who's to say I won’t be in that 1%.” Well, darned if he wasn’t right!

I attribute my success & long term survival to my amazing healthcare team at Brigham & Women's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Insititue, my incredible support network of family and friends (especially my rock, my wife Christina), my positive attitude, and lastly, the work that I have been doing as a mentor to newly diagnosed Glioblastoma patients. In 2019, I also was privileged to help create a 1 hour documentary on the cancer journey of Paul Bayne, another Dana Farmer patient, “Living With The Odds”. It is an inspirational story about how to live your life despite a life threatening illness, because the truth of it is… “Everybody dies, not everyone lives.”