On Aug. 16. 2007, surgeons at the University of Washington (UW) Medical Center performed Seattle’s first adult heart-lung transplant on 30-year-old Patrick Farris of West Richland, Wash., on Aug. 6. Farris suffered from cystic fibrosis and familial cardiomyopathy.

Farris was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when he was 17 and diagnosed with familial cardiomyopathy after his sister’s diagnosis. Although he played football in high school, Farris was unable to walk without oxygen and great effort prior to the landmark surgery.