Celebrating The Year of the Horse with Dr. Ming Wang on Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes

Join us on Living Your Best Life Radio with Genma Holmes as well gallop in the Chinese New Year, Year of the Horse, with Dr. Ming Wang, founder of Wang Vision Institute.

On Saturday, February 1, 2014 tune in to hear Dr. Wang discuss local, national, and international observances of the nearly two week celebrations of the Year of the Horse as well as the customs and history behind holiday.

Dr. Wang will discuss Asian Americans and other minority groups becoming more involved in U. S. life and how changing demographics of the country can bring economic opportunities for entrepreneurs who are open to embracing changes.

Dr. Wang will also discuss how we can live to give now and how charities can be the key to closing the health care gap for the medically undeserved. Listen as he shares his passion for serving those who cannot afford medical care and how his faith plays a major role in providing those services.

Living Your Best Life Radio, radio that empowers, inspires, and motivates you to live your BEST life can be heard on 760AM in the Middle Tennessee Region, on Tune In Radio, streamed live on the web at UStream.TV  on Saturdays from 9:00-10:00am CST and on military bases.

More About Chinese New Year 

The source of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honor deities as well as ancestors. Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries and territories with significant Chinese populations, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Philippines, and also in Chinatowns elsewhere. Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the lunar new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors.

More About Dr. Ming Wang

 Dr. Ming Wang is a uniquely qualified corneal refractive surgeon. He hold a Harvard Medical School and MIT degree (magna cum laude, 1991) as well as a doctoral degree in laser physics. He is both an accomplished scientist and a talented artist.

As the founding director of the renowned Wang Vision Institute in Nashville, TN, he excels in his profession as a compassionate ophthalmologist who cares deeply about his patients and continues to strive to give them the best eye care possible.

As an accomplished research scientist, he has made worthwhile contributions to various areas of molecular biology (see Nature, 360, 606, 1992) and ophthalmology including being a principle investigator of an NIH grant on amniotic contact lenses and the biotech company that he cofounded with Vanderbilt, EyeVU.

As a talented artist, passionate about ballroom dancing and music, he brings to people around him a sense of joy for rhythm and movement, the appreciation for fine art and many romantic and beautiful melodies of life.


 

Dr. Ming Wang on Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes

Join Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes as we profile organizations and leaders who lead by example. With extraordinary acts of kindness and charitable giving that help countless lives daily, these organizations and leaders embody "Be the change you want to see in the world".

Throughout 2013, listeners have heard from presidents of organizations who are global change agents. We will also hear from CEOs of social enterprise businesses who are changing communities and college educators who are taking their students out of the classroom and into surrounding neighborhoods to learn and serve others.

On Saturday, December 14, 2013, listeners will hear from Dr. Ming Wang of Wang Vision Institute and the founder of the Wang Foundation. Tune in to hear Dr. Wang give updates on Maria, a 15-year-old Moldovan orphan, long and arduous journey from darkness to sight. Over a year ago, Maria was brought to Dr. Wang's attention by Steve and Lynn Hendrich who were on a mission trip. They came back to the states and shared about the young, 15-year-old blind girl who had been living in a special needs orphanage in Balti, Moldova. In the fall of 2012, Maria’s story became the inspiration and primary focus of the foundation’s annual fundraiser, the Eye Ball.

Along with Maria's progress, Dr. Wang will share how science and faith coexists and his journey to United States. This show will help us see clearly the gift of being a blessing to others and how our talents are meant to be used to help enrich the lives of others.

Living Your Best Life, a radio show that empowers, inspires, and motivates us to live our BEST life, is heard on 760AM The Gospel in the Middle-TN area, Tune In, Inspirational Networks, military bases and on Ustream.TV worldwide from 9:00-10:00am CST.

More About Ming Wang

Ming Wang, MD, PhD, a graduate of Harvard & MIT (MD, magna cum laude), is one of the few cataract & LASIK surgeons in the world today who holds a doctorate degree in laser physics. He performed the world’s first 3D image-guided high-definition LASIK, the state’s first 3D premium Forever Young Lens cataract surgery and the state’s first bladeless all-laser LASIK. Dr. Wang has performed over 55,000 cataract and LASIK procedures (including on over 4,000 doctors), and is currently one of only three surgeons in the U.S. conducting an FDA-regulated clinical trial for a breakthrough new eye surgery to treat age-related loss of near vision. Dr. Wang is the founding president of the Tennessee Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which has played an active role in helping Tennessee become the #1 ranked state in the U.S. in the growth rate of export to China. Dr. Wang is the co-owner and international president of Shanghai Aier Eye Hospital, the largest publicly-traded private eye hospital group in China, with 35 hospitals throughout China, holding 10% of its eyecare market.

Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration 

The Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration is a 501c(3) non-profit charity  that has helped patients from over states in the U.S. and 55 countries, with all sight restoration surgeries performed free-of-charge. The foundation doctors published five textbooks and a paper in the world-renowned journal “Nature”, hold several U.S. patents for inventions of new biotechnologies to restore sight, and performed the world’s first laser-assisted artificial cornea implantation.

Eliza Donahue Shares her Family's Adoption Journey on Living Your Best Life

Join Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes during the month of December as we hear stories of faith that will "empower, inspire, and motivate you to live your best life". Hear powerful individuals with diverse backgrounds from around the country share how their faith have shaped their lives as well others.

Tune in as we hear how they have soared and taken others with them. We will also hear how they have overcome personal struggles that affected their leadership and personal lives. Living Your Best Life can be heard every Saturday on 760 AM in the Nashville-Middle Tennessee region and on worldwide on Ustream.TV from 9-10AM CST.

On Saturday, December 17, 2011, we will hear eleven year old Eliza Donahue and her journey to help adopt a sibling from Haiti. Hear how she was spiritually impacted and her family lives altered by the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010. She will share how she helped family friends Mike and Missy Wilson who soon to be adopted daughter Tia was in an orphanage the day of the earthquake. Without being asked, Eliza counted all her money and gave it to the Wilsons to help them bring Tia home. Her decision to give her all to help the Wilsons put Eliza on the path to travel to Haiti herself. This powerful story from an eleven year old will leave you empowered, inspired, and motivated to look deeply within our hearts and beyond our borders to find a calling in life.

More about Eliza Donahue's Journey

The months following the earthquake, after Tia and her sister, Naika, were safely in the U.S., Eliza began asking to go to Haiti herself. She wanted to see Haiti in person and meet the children from the Creche run by Dr. Joseph Bernard and New Life Link. Because of the Wilson family, Eliza had grown to love the children of Haiti deeply even though she had not been to the orphanage. She persistently talked to her parents about going to Haiti. For Christmas, instead of asking for presents typical of tweens, Eliza asked to go to Haiti. At that point, her parents knew this was not a phase; their daughter was determined to go to Haiti.

Eliza received a certificate for Christmas giving her the opportunity to go to Haiti, but she would have to raise the funds. Without hesitation, Eliza began to raise funds through a letter writing campaign themed, "I have a Heart for Haiti". She raised the necessary funds through generous donations from friends and family. In July of 2011, Eliza and her mom, Laura, traveled to Haiti.

To say that the experience changed both of them would be a huge understatement. It was transforming; heart, mind and soul! Eliza was so touched by the children and people of Haiti that she was asking to adopt a sibling even before leaving Haiti.

Upon returning from Haiti, Eliza (and Mom) gathered the family and asked everyone to consider adopting from Haiti. Because of the family's experience with Mike and Missy Wilson, Haiti held a close place in each person's heart even though not everyone had traveled there. After a month of praying, discussing and praying some more, the family all agreed that the Lord was calling them to adopt.

Isaiah prophesied that "a little child will lead them"... and so Eliza has listened to the voice of the Lord and has led her family on the journey of adoption.

To read more about the family's journey and to help contribute to their adoption click Here

Eliza is the youngest of four. Her older siblings are Baker, 16, and 13 year old twins, Brennan and Cara.