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#NephMadness 2023: Keeping Patients off the Bench and In the Game for a Winning Shot!

March 14, 2023 // 0 Comments

Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2023 | #NephMadness | #KidneyTransplant Morgan Reid @_morganreid Morgan Reid is the Director of Transplant Policy and Strategy with the [...]

#KidneyWk 2017: KDIGO Guideline and Conference Updates

November 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

As KDIGO Social Media Ambassador, I always make it a point to attend the KDIGO Guideline and Conference Updates at Kidney Week. It always provides a nice compendium of [...]

#KidneyWk 2017: Late-Breaking and High-Impact Clinical Trial Session

November 7, 2017 // 1 Comment

Kidney Week does a lot of reviewing and integrating during the week. The best sessions present old data with a new interpretation so that you can use the information to take [...]

#KidneyWk 2017: Serum and Dialysate Electrolytes and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

November 6, 2017 // 1 Comment

One of the last sessions of ASN Kidney Week was “New Methods to Improve Cardiovascular Outcomes in ESRD Clinical Practice” or, in other words, as Tariq Shafi [...]

#KidneyWk 2017 Social Wrap-Up

November 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Kidney Week represents so many things – a time to brush up on knowledge, hear about late breaking information, engage with science and scientists, and so much more. I [...]

#KidneyWk 2016: State of the Art Lectures

November 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

One of the major highlights of KidneyWk 2016 is the State of the Art Lectures, which are presented daily in the plenary session by a renowned scientist. These are topics of [...]

#KidneyWk 2016: High Impact Clinical Trials

November 20, 2016 // 1 Comment

During this year’s Kidney Week 2016 High Impact Clinical Trials session, we learned the results from 6 key studies. I’ll briefly take you through the results of each [...]

#KidneyWk 2016: Fellows’ Knowledge Competition

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

This year’s Nephron Challenge (aka Nephrology Jeopardy) was moderated by Dr. James Simon from the Cleveland Clinic. 3 teams of 4 fellows competed against each other with [...]

#KidneyWk 2016: The Poster Sessions

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Amongst the highlights of #KidneyWk 2016 is the session on late breaking clinical trials (previously known as high impact clinical research session). The oral session from [...]

#KidneyWk 2016: A Focus on Renal Fellow Education

November 18, 2016 // 4 Comments

Newer innovative teaching methods have several advantages over traditional lectures and powerpoints. Examples of effective clinical education tools such as team based [...]

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