Disparities

Kidney Transplant Outcomes Among Hispanic Recipients: An Interview

September 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

Hispanics, the largest ethnic minority group in the United States, experience faster progression of chronic kidney disease to kidney failure compared with non-Hispanic White [...]

Highlights from the July 2025 Issue

July 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic [...]

Ensuring Kidney Health Equity in the Face of Crises this World Kidney Day

March 13, 2024 // 0 Comments

Ranim Razzouk, MD @RazzoukRanim Dr. Ranim Razzouk is a senior Nephrology and Hypertension Fellow at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Her interests include kidney [...]

Why Can’t We Flozinate? Reflections on Our Inability to Optimally Prescribe SGLT2 Inhibitors to the Patients That Need Them Most

September 20, 2023 // 0 Comments

Dr. James Torain is a second-year nephrology fellow at Duke University Hospital. He currently has an interest in implementation of home dialysis modalities. Health [...]

#NephMadness 2023: A Journey of a Thousand Miles… Begins With the Right Support

March 21, 2023 // 1 Comment

Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2023 | #NephMadness | #KidneyTransplant Tanjala Purnell @tpurnell1908 Tanjala Purnell is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Surgery [...]

Kidney Disease in the Hispanic Population

September 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sylvia E. Rosas @sylviaerosas Sylvia E. Rosas, MD, MSCE is a nephrologist and epidemiologist at the Joslin Diabetes Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard [...]

#NephMadness 2022: Social Determinants of Health – The Biggest Elephant in the Room

April 7, 2022 // 1 Comment

Current Standings | Match Results | NephMadness 2022 | #NephMadness | #Inequities Ebele Umeukeje @EbeleUmeukeje Ebele Umeukeje is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at [...]

#NephMadness 2022: Inequities Region

March 1, 2022 // 9 Comments

Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2022 | #NephMadness | #Inequities Selection Committee Member: Dinushika Mohottige @DMohottige Dinushika Mohottige is a Nephrologist and [...]

On Arguments of Race and Estimated GFR

August 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

Update: The Final Report was published on September 23, 2021. A Special Report published in AJKD highlights an interim report from the joint NKF/ASN Task Force on the [...]

Highlights from the June 2021 Issue

June 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: We asked authors of Original Investigations to provide short plain-language summaries that would briefly summarize what inspired their study, the basic [...]