Recap of eAJKD’s coverage of Kidney Week 2014
Check out all of the coverage of the American Society of Nephrology’s 2014 Kidney Week in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by eAJKD’s Kenar Jhaveri, Edgar Lerma, Matt [...]
Kidney Week 2014
Kidney Week 2014: Boost Your Teaching Skills to Become a Contemporary Nephrology Educator
This was a well-attended session moderated by Drs. Kenar Jhaveri (eAJKD Blog Editor) and Laura Maursetter. Room 107 was filled to capacity and the organizers had to get an [...]
Kidney Week 2014: CDC CKD Surveillance Project
As a member of the American Heart Association’s Kidney Council in Cardiovascular Disease Leadership Group, I was invited (along with Drs. Adam Whaley Connell and Nuria [...]
Kidney Week 2014: The Wolf of Kidney Week
Myles Wolf wins the Young Investigator Award on Sunday in the final plenary session of Kidney Week. The Sunday is a more sedate than the Thursday, Friday and Saturday. All of [...]
Kidney Week 2014: Sunday Plenary Session – All about Autophagy
The speaker at the final plenary session was by Beth Levine of the University of Texas Southwestern. She gave the State of the Art lecture. She was engaging speaker with [...]
Kidney Week 2014: KDIGO Guidelines and Conferences – Part 2
Day 1 of ASN Kidney Week. November 12, 2014 Thursday. On March 2014, a KDIGO Controversies Conference on Iron Management in Chronic Kidney Disease was conducted in [...]
Kidney Week 2014: Renal Biopsy – Clinical Correlations
Renal Biopsy: Clinical Correlations (Saturday, November 15, 2014, 4:30-6:30 pm). Moderators: Ingeborg Bajema and Michael Mengel Clinical Discussant: Liz Lightstone Case #1: [...]
Kidney Week 2014 Late Breaking Abstracts: HALT-PKD
The results of the two HALT-PKD trials (Early PKD and Late PKD) were reported during the late breaking clinical trials session at Kidney Week 2014 and simultaneously [...]
Kidney Week 2014: Women in Nephrology
A lot of the important learning that happens at ASN Kidney Week happens outside the “real” meeting. A great example of this was in the Women in Nephrology [...]
Kidney Week 2014: Potassium Levels and Mortality in Patients with CKD
Potassium level abnormalities are common in patients with CKD yet the association between potassium levels and mortality has not been described. I believe this is a novel and [...]