UTHSC News: From Patient Care to Advocacy, Dr. Emilee Dobish Is a Champion for Children

Ever since Emilee Dobish, MD, was old enough to answer the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" she has known the answer.

Born with a diaphragmatic hernia, she spent her first days of life in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

"I was on ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) at D.C. Children's, which was the fourth hospital in the country to get ECMO. I was the first one there with a diaphragmatic hernia to survive," Dr. Dobish said. "I feel like my purpose in life is to be a doctor; that's part of why I made it."

Read more on the UT Health Science Center News website.