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Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg
| When a child with cancer stands up in front of a target and is able to image the tumor there and then blast through it, it empowers them.
Nominator
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Community Health Leaders
2004
Area(s) of expertise:
Cancer support
Disabilities
End of life
Leader’s Biogaphy 2004:
Founder and National Director, Kids Kicking Cancer, Detroit, MI
Goldberg, a black belt in karate who lost his first child to leukemia, created a program that uses martial arts therapy to empower young cancer patients and help them manage pain. Social workers and child life specialists who are also martial arts experts teach weekly classes at Michigan and New York hospitals.
Where this Leader can be reached today:
Founder and National Director
Kids Kicking Cancer
65 Cadillac Square, Suite 3000
Detroit, MI 48226
Phone: 313-557-0021
Email: rabg@kidskickingcancer.net
Website: www.kidskickingcancer.net
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