#NephMadness 2025: Thank You
A 13th member has joined the NephMadness Court of Champions:
CAR-T for Autoimmune Diseases
Entries dipped to 907 this year, as we all navigate a changing social media landscape:
International entries stayed pretty steady:
As always, NephMadness 2025 was a true team effort, with planning starting many months in advance of our March 1st launch. We would especially like to thank and highlight the people listed below (and apologies in advance to anyone we may have inadvertently missed):
“Thank You” is by Susan Murtaugh on Flickr.
- Roger Rodby @NephRodby
- Deidra Crews @drdeidracrews.bsky.social
- Kirk Campbell @kirkcampbell
- Samira Farouk – @ssfarouk.bsky.social
- Tom Oates @toates.bsky.social
- Meredith Atkinson
- Linnys Alcántara Quiroga @unalinnys
- Clodagh Sweeney @clodaghsweeney
- David Rush
- Jordana Cohen @jordy_bc — @jordybc.bsky.social
- Linda Awdishu @LAwdishu — @lawdishu.bsky.social
- Jordan Nestor @thenestor.bsky.social
- Mariana Murea @MarianaMurea
- Jeffrey Sparks @jeffsparks — @jeffsparks.bsky.social
- Susan Samuel @drsusansamuel
- Mehmet Sever
- Swee-Ling Levea @SweeLevea
- Babak Orandi
- Stephanie Torres Rodriguez @stephanietr612 — @stephanietr612.bsky.social
- Ethan Downes
- Rachel Khan @RFluriePharmD
- Matt Gross
- Mansi Bapat
- Yara Mouawad
- Mallory Downie @mallorydownie
- Robert Myette @RobertMyette
- Rasha Raslan
- Alissa Ice
- Trevor Stevens
- Nora Franceschini
- Gabriel Miguel Cara Fuentes @carafuentes_g – @carafuentes-neph.bsky.social
- Mariana Murea @MarianaMurea
- Kelly Birdwell
- Swapnil Hiremath
- Jeffrey Sparks @jeffsparks — @jeffsparks.bsky.social
- Josh King
- Melvin Bonilla-Felix
- Arshia Ghaffari @arshia_ghaffari
- Nasim Wiegley @NWiegley
- Zainab Obaidi
- Krithika Mohan @krithicism – Visual Abstract Lead
- Renz Pasilan @renzpasilan.bsky.social
- Edgar Lerma @edgarvlermamd – @edgarvlermamd.bsky.social
- Sophia Ambruso @sophia_kidney
- Cristina Popa @NephroSeeker – @nephroseeker.medsky.social
- Corina Teodosiu @CTeodosiu – @corinateodosiu.bsky.social
- Verner Venegas @Vernisartan – @verner-venegas.bsky.social
- Denisse Arellano @deniise_am – @deniiseam.bsky.social
- PS Vali @DrPSVali
- Mythri Shankar @nephromythri – @nephromythri.bsky.social
- Carlo Trinidad @hellokidneyMD – @hellokidneymd.bsky.social
- Husam Alzayer @Husamjz – @husamjz.bsky.social
- The Curbsiders @thecurbsiders.bsky.social
- Life as a Nephrology Professional @NKF_NephPros – @nkf-professionals.bsky.social
- GN in Ten
- RheumMadness @rheummadness.bsky.social
- Freely Filtered @FreelyFiltered – @freelyfiltered.bsky.social
- The Poison Lab @LabPoison
- The Nephron Segment @nephronsegment
- The Kidney Chronicles
AJKD Editors
- Editor-in-Chief, Harold Feldman
- Deputy Editor, Tara I. Chang @taraichang
- Deputy Editor, Julia Scialla
- Engagement Editor, Holly Kramer @kramer_holly
These folks didn’t fit into any of the above categories, but NephMadness 2025 would not have been possible without them:
- NephTwitter and @NephSky for the always entertaining discussion and debate
- Graham Gipson @grahamgipsonmd for designing the 2025 NephMadness logo
- Cathy Quinlan @KidneyCathy for another edition of her essential “What is this madness?” video
-
Evan Zeitler @LittleBigGloms for spearheading the AI-generated region photos
- Corina Teodosiu @CTeodosiu for creating the results scoreboards
- Kim Dunisch at the National Kidney Foundation @nkf @NKF_NephPros for coordinating CME and MOC
- Sarah Pratta at Elsevier for promoting NephMadness and arranging free Advances in Kidney Disease and Health subscription for the Grand Prize Winners
- Susan Allison @suz_allison for arranging free Nature Reviews Nephrology subscription for the Grand Prize Winners
- AJKD Editorial Office: Alina Foo, Noah Skaroff, Andrew Fleming, Barb Saper, Jennifer McCready-Maynes, and Sarah Lake
And finally, a special THANK YOU to everybody who submitted a bracket!
NephMadness is all about you, the nephrology community, and it warms our hearts to see you all celebrating the kidney. Here are some of the highlights we noticed over the course of this year’s madness:
Thank you #NephMadness for some good news today
Just a few more days until the #NephMadness Fellows Debate at #NKFClinicals this Friday in Boston
— Matthew Sparks (@nephrosparks.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T19:08:12.264Z
My #NephMadness summary✨Aiming for my best- managed 🔝 2%As broadly disputed, not choosing HDF was THE #BlueRibbonFail (not commenting about winner). I guess in my part of the world, we are not facing donors' obesity🎭 For fun aimed for perfect 0- so close!www.tourneytopia.com/AJKD/NephMad…
— Cristina Popa (@nephroseeker.medsky.social) 2025-04-08T13:03:35.005Z
Sometime tomorrow #NephMadness #BlueRibbonFail
— Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 (@hswapnil.medsky.social) 2025-04-01T19:20:51.209Z
It's that time of year for #NephMadness! After creating hospital site-specific brackets, @uwnephrology.bsky.social gathered at Stoup Brewing to “battle out” #kidney topics and ultimately crown a champion. What a fun and educational annual event @ajkdonian.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social
— UW Nephrology (@uwnephrology.bsky.social) 2025-03-21T20:32:33.256Z
The annual #NephMadnessParty in Tromso, Norway 🥳 Between kidney cookies, rhubarb drinks, and licorice, we agreed that CAR-T is this year's #nephmadness winner 🏆 #arctic-cart
— Ludvig Balteskard Rinde (@lbrinde.bsky.social) 2025-03-21T19:19:05.381Z
Looking forward to our 4 region #NephMadness mega-battle tomorrow!
— Laura Ratcliffe (@lauraratcliffe7.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T01:42:02.102Z
Friendly Reminder: The bracket fun may be over but NephMadness content will still be around on the AJKDBlog. US-based physicians can earn 1.0 CME credit and 1.0 MOC per region through NKF PERC (detailed instructions here). The CME and MOC activity will expire on June 1, 2025.
– The NephMadness 2025 Executive Team:
- Matthew Sparks @Nephro_Sparks – @nephrosparks.bsky.social
- Anna Burgner @anna_burgner – @annaburgner.bsky.social
- Anna Vinnikova @KidneyWars – @kidneywars.bsky.social
- Elena Cervantes @Elena_Cervants
- Jeffrey Kott @jrkott27 – @jrkott27.bsky.social
- Ana Catalina Alvarez-Elías @catochita – @catochita.bsky.social
- Dia Waguespack @d_r_waguespack
- Krithika Mohan @krithicism
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