Patrick J. Jessee, a Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumnus, is featured in two articles for his nomination for the Illinois Chapter of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2014 Man & Woman of the Year Campaign.
Jessee, who graduated from SIUE in 1998 with a bachelor’s in chemistry, is recognized in the University of Illinois Alumni Network (uialumninetwork.org/blog) and the website (volunteer-spotlight-patrick-jessee/) of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Greater Illinois Chapter.
Jessee is a Chicago firefighter and paramedic who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011.