05/29/2026
Before the surgeries, the transplants and the years of fighting, there was a little girl with long blonde hair who loved camping trips, fishing with her dad and running through autumn leaves.
That was Pam.
Pam was born with cystic fibrosis and spent her first weeks of life at the University of Alberta Hospital. She went on to receive a double lung transplant there in 2006 — and for the first time in years, she could breathe freely.
"She was so proud of herself," her father Peter recalls. "She just smiled all over."
Pam passed away in 2021 at the age of 39. Her mother Debbie had died just two years before.
Today, Peter is honouring them both with a gift in his will to the University Hospital Foundation — advancing care in cystic fibrosis, transplant medicine and diabetes research.
"I am doing this to make sure their memories and legacies will matter forever."
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