Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC (Work Group Co-Chair), is Professor of Medicine, Division Head of Nephrology at the University of British Columbia, and Consultant Nephrologist at Providence Health Care/St Paul’s Hospital, in Vancouver Canada. Dr Levin is the Executive Director of the BC Renal Agency, which oversees the care, planning, and budgets for kidney services in the province of British Columbia....

The Kidney Tutored Research and Education for Kidney Students (TREKS) Program is a product of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Workforce Committee that seeks to connect medical and graduate students to nephrology. This program starts with a weeklong camp-like course introducing participants to renal physiology through classic and modern experiments. Next, each student is matched with a ...

John R. Sedor,* Suzanne Watnick, Uptal D. Patel, ** Alfred Cheung, William Harmon, Jonathan Himmelfarb, Thomas H. Hostetter, Jula K. Inrig, ¶¶ Rajnish Mehrotra,*** Emily Robinson, Paul C. Smedberg, and Rachel N. Shaffer, for the American Society of Nephrology ESRD Task Force *Department of Medicine, MetroHealth System Campus, Cleveland, Ohio; Case Western Reserve University Center for the Study...

Vittorio E. Andreucci trained in Parma with Luigi Migone, one of the founders of the Italian Society of Nephrology, and then in the USA with Donald W. Seldin where he mastered renal micropuncture. Upon returning from the USA, he launched micropuncture in his own laboratory in Parma and then in Naples and helped promote micropuncture in other Italian research centres. In the early 1970s, he move...

Thomas H. Hostetter,* Daniel J. Kochis, Rachel N. Shaffer, Glenn Chertow, William E. Harmon, Paul E. Klotman, Neil R. Powe,** John R. Sedor, Paul C. Smedberg, Suzanne Watnick, and Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer*** for the ASN Public Policy Board *Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York; American Society of Nephrology, Washington, District of Columbia; Division of Nephrology, Department...

The Nephrology Quiz and Questionnaire remains an extremely popular session for attendees of the annual Kidney Week meeting of the American Society of Nephrology. During the 2015 meeting the conference hall was once again overflowing with eager quiz participants. Topics covered by the experts included electrolyte and acid-base disorders, glomerular disease, end-stage renal disease and dialysis, ...

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