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Conferences, Courses, & Grants
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Interventional Nephrology Series
Focus on Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Nephrology (POCUN) Series
Landmark Nephrology Series
Kidney Biopsy of the Month Series
Urine Sediment of the Month Series
The Skeleton Key Group: Electrolyte Cases
Pivoting to Virtual / Individualized Learning in the COVID Era
Let’s face it. Everything changed. Despite this, many educators and training programs have heroically attempted to keep structure, didactics, and interactive learning alive in the face of such significant change. Historically, many GME training programs still rely on…
Cardiorenal Tracks: A Trainee Perspective
Over the past decade, as more is revealed about the intricacies between the heart and kidney, their relationship to one another is becoming better defined. Though this paradigm of integrative physiology is being adapted across all of medicine,…
Tenckhoff Catheter Insertion by a Nephrologist
Despite its many benefits, peritoneal dialysis (PD) uptake is quite poor in many countries. For example, in Malaysia, around 12% of all patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) are on PD). One barrier to use of this…
St Anthony’s Fire: Ergot and the Kidney
What do migraines, holy fire, witch trials, and kidney failure have in common? That would be ergotamine. Ergotamine is a compound with a wide spectrum of pharmacologic activity produced by fungus in the claviceps species. It has agonist…
The UAB (Live + Virtual) CRRT Academy: November 4th & 5th, 2020
The University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) CRRT Academy will be held on November 4th and 5th, 2020 at the Hilton Hotel at UAB, 808 20th Street S, Birmingham, AL, 35205. The preliminary conference program is available here: This year,…
Physical Activity in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Lessons From Basic Science
Exercise and physical activity of any kind provide a substantial number of health benefits. In fact, the 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommend that some exercise is better than none. However,…
Abstract Submission Open: 2020 ASN Kidney Week Digital Basic Research Forum for Trainees and Early Career Scientists
Digital Basic Research Forum for Emerging Kidney Scientists; A Partnership Between ASN and APS Wednesday, October 21st, 20208:45am – 5:40pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -4)Virtual – Details TBD The third annual forum provides a venue to communicate new…
Skeleton Key Group: Electrolyte Case #10
Welcome to the 10th case of the Skeleton Key Group, a team of twenty -odd nephrology fellows who work together to build a monthly education package for Renal Fellow Network. The cases are actual cases (without patient identifying information) that…
Virtual AST Fellows Symposium on Transplantation 2020
In exciting news, the American Society of Transplantation-led Fellows Symposium will be going virtual this year! The program will run Thursday, September 24th & Friday, September 25th, 11:00 am – 4:45 pm EST. There will be four 1 and…
Preemptive Kidney Transplantation: Past, Present and Future
Introduction Kidney transplantation (KT) has been proven to be the optimal form of kidney replacement therapy (KRT) with resultant lower morbidity and mortality rates, and better quality of life. Why do preemptive kidney transplant recipients have a survival…
