Dr. Tommye Lambert is from Hoover, Alabama. She is the mother and life-long caregiver to her daughter, Amy Crews, who was the recipient of two bilateral lung transplants. Amy’s first transplant was very successful, allowing her to attend and graduate from college, become a neonatal intensive care nurse, work for several years at Children’s Hospital of Alabama, serve as an advocate for CF and organ donation, travel on mission trips, and enjoy her many hobbies. Amy’s second transplant came nine years later following injury to her transplanted lungs related to a severe bout with pneumococcal pneumonia. The second transplant was also successful, but Amy passed away a little less than two years after the second transplant when she developed a rare and severe reaction to a class of antibiotics that was being used to treat an infection.

 

Tommye is active as a patient/public voice in the national healthcare community. She serves in this capacity on the Governance Council of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and on the Palliative Care Guidelines Committee for the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She advocates for organ donation and has been a fundraiser in the Alabama Cystic Fibrosis Community for more than 30 years. She works as a speaker, writer, and minister and as adjunct professor in the religion department at Judson College in Marion, Alabama. After Amy died, Tommye launched a ministry and blog, Live and Proclaim to encourage those walking through difficult circumstances. She can be reached at liveandproclaim@gmail.com.