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#NephMadness 2019: Hospitalist Nephrology Region

March 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2019 | #NephMadness | #HospitalistRegion Selection Committee Member: Charlie Wray @WrayCharles Charlie Wray is an academic hospitalist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at [read more...]

#NephMadness 2019: Hepatorenal Region

March 15, 2019 // 1 Comment

Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2019 | #NephMadness | #HRSRegion Selection Committee Member: Juan Carlos Velez Juan Carlos Velez is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Ochsner Clinical School / The University of Queensland and Interim Chair [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2018: Late-Breaking and High-Impact Trials Session

November 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

The “High-Impact Clinical Trials” session was held at the ASN KidneyWk on Oct 26, 2018. National meetings are the time when you re-establish contact with old friends and create new collaborations. They are to show off your latest work and [read more...]

Applications Open for the NSMC Internship

December 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Nephrology Social Media Collective (NSMC) internship was established in 2015. The goal of the NSMC internship is to cultivate leaders in medicine by instilling confidence, knowledge, competence, and professionalism in the use of social media. [read more...]

#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 better care of patients. But the Late-Breaking and High-Impact Trials [read more...]

#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 noted, it seemed appropriate to close out out Kidney Week with a session on [read more...]

KDIGO CKD-MBD Updated Guideline: The More We Know, The Less We Know

July 27, 2017 // 1 Comment

The KDIGO Chronic Kidney Disease–Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD) Guideline Update was released last month. The team at KDIGO, as usual, did a great job presenting the update for people with differing needs and goals. The guideline update [read more...]

#NephJC Turns Three: A Closer Look at the Online Nephrology Journal Club

June 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Most of us are familiar with the concept of the “Journal Club,” either at our practicing or training institutions. A recent AJKD publication by Topf et al highlights the evolution of NephJC, a fully online nephrology journal club. [read more...]

#NephMadness 2017: NephMadness in Training

March 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

NephMadness is a great way to start a discussion about a host of nephrology concepts. We are encouraging residency and fellowship programs to make this a project for the whole program: every resident or fellow can submit their own bracket and [read more...]

#NephMadness 2017: Nutrition Region

March 7, 2017 // 3 Comments

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Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2017 | #NephMadness or #NutritionRegion Selection Committee Member for the Nutrition Region: Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Dr. Kalantar-Zadeh, MPH, PhD, is Professor and Chief of Nephrology & Hypertension at UC [read more...]

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