When Joshua Geisler registered as a stem cell donor, he did not expect the decision would lead to a call telling him he was a match for a patient with leukemia.
Geisler, a second-year physician associate student at Wichita State, said his education helped prepare him to step into the role.
“I felt prepared to be a stem cell donor, based on the experience I had at Wichita State. Our professors teach us that one of the values of our program is compassionate care,” Geisler said. “I thought this was kind of a unique way to live out one of the program’s values of compassionate care. Not only can we give medicine and do different procedures, but we can give ourselves.”