.@nwkidney opens new #dialysis museum with many one-of-a-kind artifacts, including a machine created in 1964 @UWMedicine for the world's first home dialysis patient, and the original Scribner shunt, designed in 1960 by Dr. Belding H. Scribner. #kidneyprnewswire.com/news-releases…
Excited to be on Capitol Hill today to educate lawmakers on kidney disease and push for early detection, transplant modernization, living donor protection and funding. 37 million Americans have kidney disease and only 10% of them know it. We need to change that #KidneySummit
A webinar for the patient community. Learn what kidney transplantation is and the transplant referral and evaluation process. Register today at bit.ly/NKFtransplantreferralbit.ly/49ngycD
While on the transplant waitlist, I saw my dialysis team far more often than my transplant team. This session for Dialysis Professionals helps them to better answer questions patients have while waiting. Register at tinyurl.com/NKFEvaluationbit.ly/3UtT3dm
𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 for the first Grand Rounds in Transplant Nephrology – An ISN-@ttsorg Sister Transplant Centres Initiative: "Approach on How to Work up a Kidney Transplant Candidate with Multiple Co-morbidities."
🗣️ @FritzDiekmann, Maria Theresa Bad-ang, Jamailah Macabanding
👥 Robert Freercks
🗓️ November 29
🕐 1 pm CET
🔗 Free registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) can be associated w/mutations, deletions, or hybrid genes in factor H-related (FHR) proteins. Read this Original Article on complement dysregulation associated w/a genetic variant in FHR protein 5 in aHUS.
link.springer.com/article/10…
“They paged me what?”: A transplant infectious disease guide to donor calls
Proud of this paper, & some great co-authors who conceived it. Understanding and balancing donor risk is not something we frankly teach well. We try to tease it out here❤️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
The latest developments on how to treat transplant recipients diagnosed with Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is described in the review paper by Remuzzi and colleagues in the November issue. #TransplantTwitter#VisualAbstractbit.ly/3MlbrQN
ALT Visual Abstract for the article entitled TMA in Kidney Transplantation
Join us today at 5:00pm EST to hear Dr. Tanjala Purnell @tpurnell1908, Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Surgery at Johns Hopkins University, present on "Advancing Transplant Equity by Closing the Gaps in Research, Policy, and Community Engagement." #DiversityandHealthEquity
Disparities in the kidney transplant process continue to prevent patients from accessing life-saving organs. We need to level the playing field. Check out our new podcast, “Keeping InSight,” where Dr. Sumit Mohan shares how to increase critical access: bit.ly/3OXTmcj
ALT Text Reads: PhenX Social Determinants of Health Assessments Collection
A resource to help standardize measures for studying health disparities.
Logo: Department of Health and Human Services. National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities
The second issue of the AJT Patient Digest is now available! Curated specifically for transplant patients and caregivers, it contains articles with breakthrough discoveries, policy questions, and actionable findings in a summary format.
amjtransplant.org/ajt-digest…
We are thrilled to share that our @UWNephrology faculty have won the 2023 ASN Awards! Dr. Ann O'Hare, Distinguished Mentor Award, Dr. Beno Freedman, the Donald W. Seldon Award, Dr. Ian de Boer, Distinguished Researcher Award, and Dr. Kathy Tuttle, the John P. Peters Award! 👏👏👏
The stress was real.
I thought about moving. I thought about going part-time. I even thought about leaving medicine.
… but I believe in making a diagnosis before treating a problem.
What was the diagnosis? It turns out it was a lack of autonomy and feeling under valued
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The drive to conduct antiracist research has never been stronger.
So, I and my colleagues are proud to share some of our 10 guiding principles for your antiracist research, drawn from our recent article in @JournalSSWR 🧵 1/7
We are currently accepting applications for our 2024 - 2025 UW Transplant Nephrology Fellowship position. To learn more and apply, go to nephrology.uw.edu/education/…