Palliative nephrologist. Other things too.
Joined February 2008
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
14 Feb 2024
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
15 Dec 2022
A beautiful story of KidneyPal and the benefit longitudinal relationships to advocate for patients with empathy and humility as they do it their way in a healthcare system that often asks for immediate decisions. @SammyG @stephbkiser @AlexisDrutchas @VjacksonJackson @nymurakami
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
6 Nov 2022
So fun connecting with all the great kidney pall folks at ASN. Feeling recharged and ready to get to work to make some changes!
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
15 Aug 2022
Patients with ESKD access hospice care only about half as often as patients in the general Medicare population. This study introduces a Concurrent Hospice and Dialysis Program that improves hospice access by offering palliative dialysis with hospice care bit.ly/j2022010064
ALT Overview of the program. The Program structure and components utilized by the dialysis and hospice teams caring for patients on dialysis who may benefit from concurrent care.
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
21 Mar 2022
COVID restrictions should not be viewed as only beneficial. In this study, nursing home residents without personal contact with family/friends had a 35% greater excess mortality early in the COVID-19 pandemic relative to residents who had personal contact. jamda.com/article/S1525-8610…
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
16 Mar 2022
This paper by Susan Wong and colleagues sparkles! As does the terrific accompanying editorial by Drs. Liu and Tamura. Best dataviz I have seen in quite some time! @UWMedicine @UWNephrology @KidneyResInst @SeaDenCOIN @StanfordNeph @kidneycoalition @nwkidney
14 Mar 2022
Systematic review of 41 studies (5102 patients) showed many patients who don't pursue maintenance dialysis survived several years with sustained quality of life. Consistent approaches to the study of outcomes are needed to enhance generalizability. ja.ma/3q3HABm
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
15 Dec 2021
Inpatient Kidney Palliative Care for Kidney Transplant Recipients With Failing Allografts
@nymurakami @SammyG @joeladler @anil_chandraker @releiter @sciacca_kate @BWHKidney
#PalliativeCare
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6 Dec 2021
Excited about this!
Improving the EOL Experience in #DialysisPatients
Join @JaneSchell11 @keithlagnese on Monday, Dec 6th - 1PM EST to discuss innovative models of care, concurrent #Hospice #Dialysis
gwu.webex.com/mw3300/mywebex…
#palliativecare #CKD #kidneydisease #pallneph
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9 Oct 2021
Proud of this one, v special to write with the doctors I admire most —Ursula, who inspired me to go into nephrology and Amanda, who inspired me to stay.
9 Oct 2021
Combined Nephrology and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Training: A Breath of Fresh AIRE
buff.ly/3Fkm819 (FREE)
@SammyG @koyaljainMD @brewster_ursula
#palliativecare #nephrology
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10 Jan 2021
Inflexible inconsistent hospital visitor restrictions cause anguish for patients/families and moral distress for clinicians. Nearly a year in and I still cannot cope with this aspect of the nightmare. Appreciate @releiter for his tireless alchemy of turning rage into advocacy.
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5 Jan 2021
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30 Dec 2020
I am so troubled by policies that prevent visitors when people are dying of covid.
And I am doubly troubled when doctors use those policies to admonish the public to behave better
Those policies are a human rights violation, and you should be fighting them;not using as a club
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
18 Dec 2020
Grateful to be featured in another @sciam feature today. The inequities experienced by seriously ill patients living with #kidney disease are enormous. They deserve palliative care but often don't receive this. Gaps in care are larger for minority patients scientificamerican.com/artic…
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16 Dec 2020
Important work! So much room for improvement...
15 Dec 2020
Availability, Accessibility, and Quality of Conservative Kidney Management Worldwide @CJASN
cjasn.asnjournals.org/conten…
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
16 Nov 2020
Palliative care can occur alongside transplant care. Shout it from the rooftops, say it louder for the folks in the back! #palliativehepatology
16 Nov 2020
Palliative Care in ESLD-Dr. Puneeta Tandon
▪️High symptom burden in pts w/cirrhosis, early palliative care ⬆️symptoms & QoL
▪️All healthcare practitioners need to foster an approach that integrates palliative principles
▪️Palliative care can occur alongside LTx listing
#TLMdX
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
3 Nov 2020
Another important study from @LucySchulson highlighting that professional interpreter use is abysmally low at 30% for patients with limited English proficiency in ambulatory care settings
National Estimates of Professional Interpreter Use in the Ambulatory Setting dlvr.it/RksBYB
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
3 Nov 2020
Happy Election Day! If you haven't yet voted, you can look up the location of your polling place here: projects.fivethirtyeight.com… Just click on your state and check out the "In-person voting" section.
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Sam Gelfand retweeted
30 Oct 2020
.@SammyG @JaneSchell11 @AmakaEMD on the #NephWorkForce Issue
Palliative Care in Nephrology: The Work and the Workforce
ackdjournal.org/article/S154…
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27 Oct 2020
I feel strongly that CKM is a valid (sometimes optimal) tx option for kidney failure among the frail or seriously ill.
I feel *even stronger* that complex patients and shared decision-making involving CKM are vulnerable to clinician bias related to ageism, racism, and ableism.
27 Oct 2020
Palliative Care in the Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative: A Call for Inclusion in Kidney Care Delivery Models
buff.ly/3oq4Kj3 (FREE)
@SammyG @ernestimandel
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