UNC lung transplant patient featured on NPR broadcast

In a conversation broadcast on National Public Radio's "Story Corps" series, Howell Graham remembers getting a double lung transplant at UNC in 1990. He was the first cystic fibrosis patient to undergo a double lung transplant at UNC Hospitals. At that time, lung transplantation was still a very new procedure, but the surgery, performed by Thomas M. Egan, MD, of the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, was a success: Graham is now believed to be the longest-surviving double-lung transplant patient in the world.

Read about and listen to the NPR broadcast here.  Read more about Graham here (Wilmington Star-News story) and here (article about Dr. Egan's research in Endeavors, UNC's research magazine).