#NephMadness 2026: Meet the Gamemakers bit.ly/3Nk10Ap @nephrosparks.bsky.social @annaburgner.bsky.social @kidneywars.bsky.social @jrkott27.bsky.social @catochita.bsky.social @ssfarouk.bsky.social

#NephMadness 2025: The Effluent Eight bit.ly/43wtXzd @nephrosparks.bsky.social @annaburgner.bsky.social @kidneywars.bsky.social @jrkott27.bsky.social @catochita.bsky.social

The Effluent Eight from #NephMadness 2025 was just announced!! How is your bracket doing? What did the blue ribbon panel get right? ajkdblog.org/2025/04/02/n...

#NephMadness 2025: CAR-T for Kidney Disease Region bit.ly/NM25CART Teams: - CAR-T for Autoimmune Disease - CAR-T Side Effects Expert: @jeffsparks.bsky.social Writer: Yara Mouawad Execs: Dia Waguespack & @annaburgner.bsky.social

#NephMadness 2025 Commentary by Kelly Birdwell: Obesity in Kidney Transplant Recipients – A Weighty Problem to Scale Back bit.ly/NM25Birdwell

#NephMadness 2025 is live on the #AJKDBlog: bit.ly/WelcomeNM25 Topics include: - Resistant Hypertension - Obesity - Green House - Minimal Change Disease - Disaster Nephrology - Genetics - Hemodialysis - CAR-T for Kidney Disease Looking forward to the fun and learning with all of you!

Announcing the #NephJC internship, @nephjc.bsky.social and @kireports.bsky.social joining forces www.nephjc.com/intern-app for details and to apply! #NephSky

#NephMadness 2025: CAR-T for Kidney Disease Region bit.ly/NM25CART Teams: - CAR-T for Autoimmune Disease - CAR-T Side Effects Expert: @jeffsparks.bsky.social Writer: Yara Mouawad Execs: Dia Waguespack & @annaburgner.bsky.social

#NephMadness 2025: Obesity in Kidney Transplant Region bit.ly/NM25Obesity Teams: - Obesity in Donors - Obesity in Recipients Experts: Swee-Ling Levea & Babak Orandi Writers: Alissa Ice & Trevor Stevens Execs: @annaburgner.bsky.social & @jrkott27.bsky.social

Happy #NephMadness 2025! Check out this years teams here: ajkdblog.org/2025/03/01/w... and then hop over to www.nephmadness.com to submit your 2 brackets!! @nephmadness.bsky.social @ajkd.bsky.social

And the 1️⃣ post in our countdown of the Top Ten #NephMadness region posts from 2020-2024 is: 1️⃣ Cardiorenal Region (2022) 🎉 bit.ly/41saa2u Expert: @nishabansal.bsky.social and Sadiya Khan Writer: @drflashheart.bsky.social Exec: @ssfarouk.bsky.social @annaburgner.bsky.social

Valentine’s Day ginger bread house making fun for the fellowship! Thanks to Dr. McCall for hosting! The winner of the most kidney themed ginger bread house goes to Dr. Clapp and Dr. Mir!

Because someday we need a rainbow in our life!

This month's Fellowship Program Highlight: Authors Nicole E. Wyatt and Levan Gakhokidze are Nephrology Fellows at Vanderbilt University Medical Center under Program Director @annaburgner.bsky.social. Thank you for submitting this #Quiz! https://bit.ly/3DMjZyT (FREE)

The amazing story of a colleague, Dr. Billy Hudson, and how he overcame abuse and poverty as a child, ultimately leading to founding the Aspirnaut program, through which he has inspired thousands of students to dream and pursue careers in STEM t.e2ma.net/share/inboun...

Huge congrats to my colleague Dr. JP Arroyo @vumc-insights.bsky.social on receiving the ASCI young physician scientist award! Such a well deserved honor! the-asci.org/controllers/...

SAVE THE DATE: #NephMadness is just around the corner! Bracket submission opens March 1st and closes March 31st. Details: bit.ly/4frRAv3 @annaburgner.bsky.social @jrkott27.bsky.social @nephrosparks.bsky.social @kidneywars.bsky.social

Former VUMC kidney fellow all star Dr Jen Bergeron on the @ajkd.bsky.social blog discussing: Risks and Benefits: Is Maintenance Dialysis Associated with Becoming Frail? ajkdblog.org/2025/01/15/r...

Started out the new year with a 3 mile run before hospital rounds to #sockittokidneydisease!

Mark your calendars!!! #Nephmadness is approaching! Now is the time to party plan!

Nice review on the cross talk between glomeruli and tubules and the complex interplay between them that underlies progressive kidney injury. From two of my fantastic colleagues Dr. Harris and Dr. Fogo! @vumc-insights.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wow!!! Congrats to all!! Vanderbilt urologists bring home AUA awards news.vumc.org/2024/12/12/v...

Quoting Dr. Jamie Dwyer “The price of euvolemia is azotemia” during todays renal grand rounds on acute heart failure congestion and the kidney! What is AKI when decongesting during CHF and what is just an appropriate increase in this setting? We clearly need better biomarkers in this setting!

Excited to share the incoming 2025 class of @vumc-insights.bsky.social nephrology Fellows!!!

Hi #NephJC! Looking forward to tonight’s chat! Anna Burgner, fellowship program director at VUMC!

👉Before we start, a few reminders! Are you new to #NephJC? Not sure what to do or how this works? Here is a quick rundown- pic made by @sstoneman.bsky.social We’ll get started in 30 min!

Hi #nephJC! Anna Burgner, program director at VUMC here to chat dialysate potassium! No COI!

Looking forward to tonight’s #NephJC and learning how to use Bluesky better!

Is adding SZC + 3K bath the solution to sudden death in dialysis? Join us this on #NephJC to discuss www.nephjc.com/news/potassi... #NephSky

Looking forward to tonight’s #NephJC!

Blockbuster obesity drugs also may slow kidney disease news.vumc.org/2024/10/25/b... from @vumc-insights.bsky.social

Congrats! Exciting news!

The world felt like it needed more happy dog pictures….so here is Luna and Percy posing in front of some inflatable Halloween dogs!