Dad. Transplant Surgeon @StJohnHealthOK. @HopkinsSurgery fellowship alum. @Okstate grad. LOK Class 32. The man who is actually in the arena.🎸🥾📚🏋🏻
Tulsa, OK
Joined August 2011
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Cool stuff for us transplanters: In kidney transplant patients, tegoprubart has better kidney function and lower toxicity vs tacrolimus. Phase 2.
medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…
Pig-organ factories now exist.
Next: making the organs last.
ir.unither.com/press-release…
1898: Bier successfully tested cocaine-based spinal anesthesia by striking his assistant's shin with a hammer. No pain. They celebrated with wine and cigars.
But then they both got spinal headaches and Bier was bedridden for 9 days.
litfl.com/august-bier/
Medical history (1804):
Medical student drinks and slathers self in yellow-fever vomit to prove it's not contagious. (It's mosquito-borne).
He lived.
I expect this level of dedication of my own students.
wellcomecollection.org/works…
Medical History
1944: Dr Wilhelm Kolff built a dialysis machine from sausage casings and auto parts.
His first 15 patients died; the 16th survived.
doi.org/10.1111/aor.13114
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all credit to @MaxwellJTowry for this gorgeous shot. we talked pregame about getting this style of shot at some point in the game & he pulled it off to perfection. great instincts, even better execution.
The mathematical gymnastics in this thread is impressive.
Oklahoma has beaten Texas 51 times.
Texas got their 51st win over the Sooners in 1992.
#TEXvsOU #RedRiverRivalry
Penicillin’s first patient improved, then died when they ran out of penicillin - despite recycling his urine to extract more.
doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(0…
Human livers were perfused for 7 days on a standard machine.
More game changing technology for us transplanters.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4282…
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Opinion: What Kentucky got wrong about organ donation, why trust matters | Opinion oklahoman.com/story/opinion/…
Sharing an op-ed I wrote about organ donation and how we can all help.
kansas.com/news/nation-world…
In 1929, med student Werner Forssmann did his own heart cath. Using a long needle and a mirror. Walked down a flight of stairs to x-ray to confirm placement. His boss fired him for that.
He later won the Nobel Prize, 1956. nobelprize.org/laureate/361
Living donors shouldn’t pay to save a life.
New reimbursement rules help to break down barriers.
hrsa.gov/optn-modernization/…
Just this week: DCD livers with NRP or NMP had 2-year graft survival similar to DBD.
Cold storage did worse.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4278…
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If you listen closely, you can hear the #OkState players singing Country Roads in the postgame locker room.
