Hero doctor dedicated to empowering others with disabilities receives $1 million surprise

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At the University of Michigan, Okanlami has made it his mission to build the adaptive sports and fitness program to inspire students like wheelchair tennis athlete Caiden Baxter and others to find their joy again."It starts with a dream and a vision and Dr. O's vision is understanding that he wants access for more people," Jessica Wynne, head wheelchair basketball coach, told "GMA."Okanlami's mother, meanwhile, said it was her son's resilience and faith that "allowed him to take an injury and an accident that really could have dug him into a big hole" and helped him turn it "into a launching pad, from which he has launched all kinds of other opportunities to help people and to inspire people."On Thursday morning "Good Morning America" surprised Okanlami on campus in Ann Arbor with $1 million from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, which is committed to changing the world for those living with spinal cord injuries and the definition of what is possible."The fact that they were able to orchestrate this somehow amidst all of the other things they've been doing -- through COVID, through family deaths, through injury, through sickness -- so the emotion is about every single person here and those that aren't here, those at Michigan, those at other institutions and in other country, those on other continents with and without disabilities that have supported us to get to where we are.""

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