#NephMadness 2026: Thank You

AJKDblog

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The NephMadness Court of Champions is welcoming a 14th member:

B-cell Modulators

This year entries continued to reflect the general decline in social media popularity…

… while international entries stayed pretty steady.

As usual, NephMadness 2026 required the talent, effort, and time of an extensive team. These folks make it all possible! We’d like to take this opportunity to recognize their contributions (with apologies to anyone we may have inadvertently missed):

Blue Ribbon Panel

Timothy Yau @Maximal_Change – @maximalchange.bsky.social
Prabir Roy-Chaudhury @proychaudhuryMD – @roy-chaudhury.bsky.social
Kirk Campbell @kirkcampbell
Meredith Atkinson
Lori-Ann Fisher
William Whittier
Yara Mouawad
Christel Wekon-Kemeni @therealdrdub – @therealdrdub.bsky.social
Giftay Kingston

Selection Committee

Laura Mariani @LauraMarianiMD
Bradley Dixon
David Drew
Sam Kant @kantsmd
Jeannina Smith @germatologist.bsky.social
Kelly Hyndman @DrKeeksPhD
Autumn Harris
Lili Chan @LilCh4n
Kuang-Yu Jen @KidneyPath
Mohamed Hassan Kamel
Vandana Niyyar @vandyniyyar
Eric Wallace

Region Writers

Alessandra Tomasi @AleTomasiMD
Aarushi Varshney
Colton Jensen
Hariharasudan Natarajan @HariNataraj94 – @beanbuddy.bsky.social
Caitlyn Vlasschaert @DrFlashHeart – @drflashheart.bsky.social
Sarah Street
Susan DiGiovanni
Neil Evans
Aditya Yelamanchi
Priyal Sakhuja
Steven Clapp
Alyssa Steitz

Commentary Contributors

Abhilash Koratala @NephroP
Autumn Harris
Jonathan Barratt
Anuja Java @anuja_java – @anujajava.bsky.social
Donald Molony
Farhana Begum
Mirtha Camila Almanzar
Jordan G. Nestor
Sayna Norouzi @SaynaNorouzi – @saynanorouzi.bsky.social
Saloni Gupta
Song Ong @SongOngUAB
Dana Rizk

Visual Abstract Team

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
Kajaree Giri @KajareeG
Denisse Arellano Mendez @deniise_am – @deniiseam.bsky.social
PS Vali @DrPSVali
Elba Medina @elbaonelida – @elbaonelida.bsky.social
Husam Alzayer @Husamjz – @husamjz.bsky.social

Podcasts

GN in Ten
Global Kidney Care Podcast
Freely Filtered @FreelyFiltered – @freelyfiltered.bsky.social
Febrile Podcast @febrilepodcast – @febrilepodcast.com.bsky.social
Kidney Commute
CoreIM@COREIMpodcast – @coreimpodcast.bsky.social
The Nephron Segment@nephronsegment

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 2026 would not have been possible without them:

NephTwitter and @NephSky for the always entertaining discussion and debate
Graham Gipson @grahamgipsonmd for designing the 2026 NephMadness logo
Cathy Quinlan @KidneyCathy for another edition of her essential “What is this madness?” video
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!

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, 2026.

– The NephMadness 2026 Executive Team: