When she was born, Emily was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. As a result, her lungs were not functioning normally, so she remained in her local NICU in Maine for eight weeks. Dr. Francis Fynn-Thompson at the Pediatric Transplant Center saved Emily’s life by innovating a surgery to get her on the list. “Dr. Fynn-Thompson designed a surgery with cannulas that were able to make Emily a candidate for surgery — and she was quickly listed as a candidate shortly after.” Just 36 hours after being listed as a candidate for an organ transplant, Emily matched and was able to receive a lung transplant — a miracle turnaround time.