C.J. Trent-Gurbuz

J. Keith Melancon, M.D., clapped Maurice Lucas, a retired Metro bus driver, on the back as he led him and his wife, Violet, through the door of the GW Transplant Institute at GW Hospital.

Ron Paul, chair and chief executive officer of Eagle Bancorp and Eagle Bank and two-time kidney donation recipient, and his wife, Joy’s, mission is clear: “To eradicate, as best as we can, kidney disease.”

Trenin Jones waited patiently for the blood pressure cuff around his arm to expand. He hadn’t had his pressure checked in a while, he said, but he wanted to “gauge where he was.” His result: high blood pressure.