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Adrian Whelan @AdrianWhelan6 Dr. Adrian Whelan is a Transplant Nephrologist at University of California, San Francisco. He completed the AJKD Editorial Internship during its inaugural year in 2018 and is a former NephMadness [...]

Lachlan McMichael @lachlan_mcm Dr. Lachlan McMichael is a nephrologist & early career clinician-researcher. He is currently undertaking a Kidney Transplant Research Fellowship at the University of British Columbia, and [...]

Orhan Efe @OrhanEfe_ Dr. Orhan Efe is a Nephrologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Dr. Efe was an AJKD Editorial Intern from 2021-2022. He is passionate about glomerular diseases and immunology research [...]

Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic approach taken, what was learned, and why it [...]

Ana Cecilia Farfan Ruiz @AnaCeciliaFarf1 Dr. Ana Cecilia Farfan Ruiz was an AJKD Editorial Intern from 2021-2022. She is currently a renal transplant fellow at the Mayo Clinic Florida and recently obtained a diploma in [...]

  Physiologic derangements leading to hepatorenal syndrome and effects of terlipressin. Figure 1 from Velez et al, AJKD © National Kidney Foundation. Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is a form of acute kidney injury (AKI) [...]