Health Update

Hey. Watch these videos in order if you can. Links are at the very bottom. Call me if you have any questions.

The Overview

References & further reading

Ten articles, organized by topic. Tap any section below to expand.

The team & the program 3 sources

Dr. Thiago Beduschi — UF Health profile Chief of the UF transplant program. The surgeon overseeing my care.
UF Health transplant programs — current rankings Background on the program and its standing among national centers.
Perplexity The research tool I use. Cuts through outdated information better than standard search.

The science 4 sources

Cleveland Clinic — Machine Perfusion How modern organ preservation works — testing, repair, and assessment before transplant.
Nature — AI for liver transplant matching How AI is now matching donor organs to recipients more accurately than human committees.
University of Cincinnati — AI Advances in Liver Disease Plain-language overview of recent AI advances in liver disease care.
UPMC — HLA tissue typing explainer Patient-friendly overview of the tissue matching test used pre-transplant.

Where treatment is headed 3 sources

Nature Medicine — Retatrutide Phase 2 results 86% liver fat reduction. Largest ever recorded for a drug in development.
Isomorphic Labs — Series B announcement $2.1B raise to scale AI drug design. May 12, 2026. The DeepMind spinout.
UNOS — Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network National transplant data and waiting list information.