Dr Emily Granger is a Cardiothoracic and Heart Lung Transplant surgeon. She has performed more than 4000 general cardiothoracic operations and more than 350 heart and lung transplants. Her areas of interest include TAVI, ECMO, transplants and trauma surgery. Emily completed her medical degree at the University of Queensland (1997) and her surgical fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) in 2006. She is involved with the NSW Organ Tissue Donation Service and Deceased Donor Organ Procurement, and, in 2014, was involved in the world’s first successful ‘donation after circulatory death’ heart transplant. Since then, the Transplant Unit at St Vincent’s Hospital has performed over 100 DCD heart transplants. Dr Granger lectures at the Clinical Medical School at St Vi