World Kidney Day 2026: Caring for People, Protecting the Planet
Ana Flavia Moura, MD, PhD, FASN, is a nephrologist based in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She is a Professor at the Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health. She currently [...]
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Sustainable Kidney Care: Aligning Patient and Planetary Health
Mohamed Emlemdi is a medical student at The Ohio State University whose experience as a kidney transplant recipient has fueled his pursuit of a career in nephrology. He is [...]
Toward a Successful Shared-Care Model for Kidney Transplant Recipients
Deborah Lee, MD, is a second year nephrology fellow at University of California San Francisco. She completed her medical education at the Indiana University School of [...]
Silencing Primary Hyperoxaluria with Lumasiran: Two Year Follow-up of the Phase 3 ILLUMINATE-C Trial
Matthew A. Sparks (@Nephro_Sparks or @nephrosparks.bsky.social) is an associate professor of medicine at Duke University in Durham, NC. He is the director of the nephrology [...]
Death by Suicide Among People with Kidney Failure on Dialysis
Dr. L. Parker Gregg is an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, and the Center for Innovations in Quality, [...]
Stiff Arteries, Fragile Kidneys: The Link to Chronic Kidney Disease
Dr Api Chewcharat is currently a clinical and research fellow at Brigham and Women’s hospital (BWH)/Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Nephrology combined program. His [...]
The Hidden Barriers to Home Dialysis
Dr. Jillian Caldwell is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Clinical Scholar in the Division of Nephrology at Stanford University. She completed her internal medicine training [...]
One Metric, Two Missions: How eGFR Slope Guides Risk and Research
Dr. Benjamin Catanese is a current clinical research fellow in the Duke Division of Nephrology and a research fellow at the Duke Clinical Research Institute pursuing a Master [...]
Unseen, Unheard: The Silent Strain on Dialysis Caregivers
Madhumitha Rajagopal is a research-track nephrology fellow at the Mount Sinai hospital. She received a Ph.D. in Molecular Cellular Physiology from the University of [...]
Afamin and Kidney Health: In the Pursuit of a Better Biomarker for CKD Progression
Dr. Somaya Zahran is a Nephrology fellow and Chief Fellow at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She earned her medical degree in Egypt and completed a PhD at the [...]