– Ochsner Health System is proud to announce “The Jarrius JJ Robertson Fund” – a fund dedicated to providing families of pediatric liver transplant patients with financial assistance for unexpected expenses. Jarrius, or JJ, will be honored with the Jimmy V Perseverance Award at the 25th ESPYS award ceremony in Los Angeles, California tonight.
JJ was born with biliary atresia, a chronic liver disease he was diagnosed with at a very early age. It is a condition where the bile ducts don’t form correctly during fetal development, causing the liver to malfunction. At just one-year-old, he received his first liver transplant.