UChicago Medicine invested $730.9 million in community benefits for Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs in fiscal 2023 — bringing the health system's total community investments over the past decade to more than $5 billion. uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/comm…

Meet UChicago Medicine transplant surgeon Dr. Ashley Suah — one of just 13 Black female transplant surgeons in the U.S. #DonateLifeMonth biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/ashley-su…

🙏🏽Thankful #Missouri ➕ #Illinois Senate / House leaders➕staff for ASN Advocacy meetings on ⬆️ support to modernize the US organ #transplant system🙌🏾 #KidneysOnTheHill
Honored to represent American Society of Nephrology as #KidneyAdvocates | Michelle A, Josephson | Roslyn Mannon | Dan Weiner | KidneyBea_n🤝🏽

Thank you to the office of Rep. Mark Green for taking the time to meet with us to discuss providing $67 million for the HRSA Organ Transplantation Program to implement the Securing the US OPTN Act! ASN Advocacy American Society of Nephrology Bea Concepcion Vineeta Kumar

Thank you Jillian Cantrell Senator Bill Hagerty for meeting with us ASN Advocacy American Society of Nephrology to discuss $67M HRSA funding for FY25 to support the modernization of the OPTN to better serve our patients! #KidneyAdvocates Vineeta Kumar Rhiannon Reed

Thank you Senator Sen. Marsha Blackburn staff for meeting with our team American Society of Nephrology ASN Advocacy to discuss funding the implementation of the Securing the US OPTN Act to modernize America’s transplant system and better serve patients! #KidneyAdvocates Rhiannon Reed Vineeta Kumar

On the Hill today advocating for kidney health! American Society of Nephrology ASN Advocacy President Biden Rhiannon Reed Vineeta Kumar
Bea Concepcion Zach Kribs

Why pancreas- #kidneytransplant should win #NephMadness 2024:

A beautifully written patient perspective from Gabriel Cooper, discussing Sidney & Franc (his transplanted kidney & pancreas)

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'Not enough others get a Sidney & a Franc'

The management of transplant patients requires special care by transplant nephrologists. This article examines how ACGME recognition of Transplant Nephrology Fellowship could mitigate the Transplant Nephrology work force crisis bit.ly/CJASN0441

Bea Concepcion Prince Mohan Anand

Ecstatic to see SPK as a finalist in this year’s #NephMadness ! Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice - AST 🙌🏽🏀

Enzymatic conversion of human blood group A #kidneys to universal blood group O
#transplant #nephrology
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#WeekendReading Catch up on the #NephMadness 2024 Commentaries, featuring:

Dr. Kelly Hyndman
Harish Seethapathy
Christ-Crain 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸
Osama El Shamy
@KidneyBea_N
Navdeep Tangri
Anitha Vijayan
Richard Sterns

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Enormous THANK YOU to Senator Patty Murray Sen. Tammy Baldwin Sen. Susan Collins Shelley Moore Capito for your commitment to supporting kidney transplantation through $23M in increased funding for the HRSA OPTN Modernization Initiative in FY24, a top ASN priority

American Society of Nephrology commends and thanks Robert Aderholt Rep. Kay Granger Rosa DeLauro for their leadership on kidney transplantation by increasing HRSA transplant funding by $23M in FY24, delivering on a top ASN priority for patients

#NephMadness Commentary by @KidneyBea_N:

Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation – Expect A Comeback Win!

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1/n Hyponatremia in cirrhosis rounds: case 1: ESLD 2/2 ETOH. Admitted at OUH 2/2 abd distension/lethargy w/sNa 133. Kept on spirono + furosem + lactulose. Gradual ⬇️in sNa in 10 days. Transferred 4 ⬆️level of care. Arrives with sNa 125, sCr 0.8. Alert, jaundice, ascites, no edema

Thank you for featuring our work! Tarek Alhamad Krista Lentine, MD,PhD | FASN | FAST Bea Concepcion Song Ong Haris Murad Sam Gelfand Richard Leiter, MD, MA Prince Mohan Anand Darshana M. Dadhania, MD, MS Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice - AST

Congrats to transplant surgeon extraordinaire Rachel Forbes, an amazing mentor/teacher/role model, and a wonderful human being, colleague and friend. Vanderbilt Transplant Center Vanderbilt Health

Another incredible year here at Vanderbilt Health Transplant! 🥳🎉

Yesterday, my friend, colleague and fellow Channel Your Enthusiasm: The Burton Rose BookClub podcaster Anna Gaddy (@AnnaGaddy) became an altruistic kidney donor! She is home already and her donated kidney is working and just saved someone's life. Go Anna! #WalkTheWalk