#NephMadness 2024: The Winners

Posted on April 17, 2024 by AJKDblog in NephMadness // 1 Comment

Now that we have revealed the NephMadness 2024 Champion, Team Gila Monster from the Animal House Region, we are excited to announce the winners below!

from Pixabay

Grand Prizes

Each Grand Prize individual winner will receive a one-year online subscription to Advances in Kidney Disease and Health and Nature Reviews Nephrology.

TOP OVERALL SCORE: Concord Renal Team

“We enjoyed Nephmadness as a fun way to run our department education meetings for the first half of March, particularly debating and sharing experience in recently changing areas of renal medicine! We submitted a group bracket to encourage debate and discussion in the department for each topic and now hope to take on the Gila Monster as our new department mascot!” – Mitchell Hunter-Dickson (the one in the red kidney suit), Renal Advanced Trainee at Concord Repatriation General Hospital (Australia)

TOP MEDICAL STUDENT SCORE: Sideré Monserrath Zorrilla Alfaro @siderezorrilla

“I am conducting my social service research in the Molecular Medicine laboratory at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico. This is my seventh and final year of medical school. I have a keen interest in nephrology and follow leaders in the field on X who share information about NephMadness. This was my first time participating, and I found the dynamics to be both fun and interesting. The event provided an opportunity to stay updated on relevant topics while learning through play and observing interactions within the nephrology community. Thank you for organizing this event; I enjoyed it and learned a great deal!”

TOP RESIDENT SCORE: Ludvig Balteskard Rinde @lrinde

“I’m a resident in nephrology at the University Hospital of North Norway and an associated professor of UiT The Arctic University of Norway. NephMadness is the highlight of my (kidney) year. It’s sparking engaging discussions at work that we cap off with a fun voting session at our NephMadness party. This year, we in Tromsø, in the northern part of Norway, did it really good with several brackets in the top results! I’m very happy with the Top Resident score; however, in the household rankings, I’m still playing catch-up to my cardiology girlfriend, the reigning Top Resident champ of 2022 (conveniently benched this season). Already excited for the next NephMadness!”

[Editor’s Note: If his name sounds familiar, he had the Top Medical Student score back in NephMadness 2018]

TOP FELLOW SCORE: Linnys Alcántara Quiroga @UnaLinnys

“I am a first grade Nephrology fellow at the General Hospital of Mexico in Mexico City. This award means a lot to me. Thanks for all the amazing organization that is involved in this creative and academic event!”

Social Prizes

BEST BLOGGER: Gabriel Cooper

“I am a clinical psychotherapist in Los Angeles who works with kidney and transplant patients and specializes in anxiety, self-esteem, and relationships.  I enjoy the unique community of passionate ideas and research that NephMadness inspires. I wrote this commentary to honor the compassion of my donor and the 20 people who died on the waitlist the day I received a transplant.”

BEST X Poster: Cristina Popa @NephroSeeker

“I am an early career nephrologist affiliated with Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation at Clinical Hospital Dr C I Parhon in Iasi, Romania. One of the reasons that got me to #NephTwitter in 2021 is Animal House and all the passion surrounding it. Legit nephrologists were creating Twitter accounts and playing the role of anthropomorphic animals in Animal House, debating physiology, and taking battles of the animals as their own; this reflects the beautiful, diverse, and creative nephrology community. This year’s NephMadness stakes were even higher. Gila Monster is the perfect example of resilience learning to survive the arid desert by adapting its osmolarity and only eating a handful of times per year. This inspired scientists to discover its venom-potion exendin-4, a GLP-1-like hormone, but with a longer bioavailability. GLP-1RA already changed the treatment of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. But, can you hold your breath until the FLOW results are published and give more weapons into nephrologist’s arsenal? (#glipinate) On the other hand, I was conflicted, to have to choose between Animal House and Preeclampsia– a battle worth final in many’s hearts. I realize the need for a more women-focused perspective- a global shift towards equal opportunities, and representation in trials, leadership, and academia. And what better way to start than PRAECISely diagnosing the most common GN in the world? It is striking how a disease was mentioned more than 2,000 years ago in ancient Greece, it was still called toxemia of pregnancy in the 20th century… In the end, we are all winners, enriched by knowledge, stirred by emotion, and bound by memorable moments spent discussing nephrology and loving it!”

Group Prizes

HIGHEST-SCORING GROUP: Concord Renal Team

“We enjoyed Nephmadness as a fun way to run our department education meetings for the first half of March, particularly debating and sharing experience in recently changing areas of renal medicine! We submitted a group bracket to encourage debate and discussion in the department for each topic and now hope to take on the Gila Monster as our new department mascot!” – Mitchell Hunter-Dickson

BEST PARTY AND MOST ENTRIES GROUP: HGM Nefrología @hgm_nefrologia

“Previous to March, we had meetings with one of our mentors (Dr. Laura Fuentes @laufuentesm) to explain to our fellowships how Nephmadness works and how our parties would be held. Also, we explained how the brackets were filled. We had 3 parties (one each week) and what we liked most was the coexistence that was created in each of the meetings with the creativity of our residents.” – Ivonne Martinez @IvonneV7, Nephrology Fellow, Hospital General de México

Honorable Mentions: Everybody who joined in on this year’s neon theme!

Congratulations to The Winners of NephMadness 2024!

Special thanks to Sarah Pratta from Elsevier and Susan Allison from NRN for the complimentary subscriptions to Advances in Kidney Disease and Health and Nature Reviews Nephrology.

The winner of the Top Attending Prize wishes to remain anonymous. There were two prize categories where we needed to break a tie: Top Resident and Top Fellow. For more details on how tiebreakers work specifically and the determination of winners and prizes in general, please see NephMadness 2024 Rules.

Final Standings | Match Results | NephMadness 2024 | #NephMadness

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