Uber for Organs: This Alumna’s Tech Is Changing the Transplant Universe

In an emotional scene in the popular TV medical drama, “The Pitt,” lead actor Noah Wyle, as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, counsels parents distraught about their terminally ill son, Nick.

The scene takes place after the mother and father on the Max show accept that their son is brain dead and honor his wish to donate his organs.

“Surgical teams are flying in from all over the country to meet Nick at the Center for Organ Recovery,” Dr. Robby tells them, assuring them Nick will be in good hands.

It was not so long ago that those flights were not happening with great frequency in the real world. That’s changing in part because of Laura Epstein, a 2016 University of Virginia graduate who earned her aerospace engineering degree in Charlottesville while also collecting her pilot’s license.

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