It was while she spent three years by her late sister’s side — as she battled a rare form of cancer — that Dr. Jennifer Zelovitzky discovered her true calling. She’d been an actress and model for five years, working on accounting jobs on the side to make ends meet, when she got the call in 2001 that her younger sister, Lisa Coristine, had been diagnosed with sinus cancer. Zelovitzky acted as Lisa’s advocate as she fought through several surgeries, rounds of radiation and chemotherapy. When her father-in-law, a radiologist and her “go-to person” on Lisa’s...
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