Whether you're managing kidney disease or supporting a loved one, engaging in open conversations with healthcare providers is crucial. On National Healthcare Decisions Day, we empower everyone to make informed choices and ensure their voices are heard in medical care.

❗️PLEASE READ Next Tuesday, I'll be speaking at the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy on temperature issues. Yesterday, the Missouri Board of Pharmacy provided an update on the temperature issue with mail order pharmacy & staffing issues. On both, the message was similar.

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This but it’s my dad 🫠

Embracing World Kidney Day with a heart full of gratitude for these incredible organs that play a vital role in our well-being. Today, we are especially mindful of individuals with kidney disease and the organ that fuels our entire mission. #TwitteRX #Pharmacists #WorldKidneyDay

Happy Valentines Day from transplant pharmacists to a few very special team members! #TxPharm

Learn about STRATEGIES to improve pharmacoequity, overcome BARRIERS to access medications and utilize tools to improve medication use in Black persons with CKD.
🔗 FREE AKHOMM CE module: buff.ly/3MdaHxi

#CKD #pharmacoequity

Does your center convert from valganciclovir to letermovir for CMV prophylaxis? Check out this study by Jorgenson et al evaluating the impact of conversion and prophylaxis efficacy! #ManuscriptMonday

doi.org/10.1111/ctr.15…

Thank you for your strength and leadership! 👏🏻👏🏻

Let's say you are
< 40 years
+ have no other medical problems

If you start dialysis, shouldn't you get transplanted preemptively, or ASAP? Or at least waitlisted?

Not in the US, you won't

from Ali Husain Sumit Mohan et al in JAMA Internal Medicine

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

You may be paying more for your prescriptions than your health insurance is.

Why? PBMs.

Celebrate Nephrology Nurses week with us by diving into our latest learning modules surrounding medication-related disparities.

🔗 Learn more at: buff.ly/3Pfg9RU

Happy Nephrology Nurses Week from all of us at AKHOMM! 🩺🧑‍⚕️ We thank you for all your hard work and dedication!👏

#NephTwitter #Nephrology #Nephrology NursesWeek #TwitteRX

NEW POD ALERT
On this couch session, graduating SOT PGY2s Bridget Bucher, Courtney (Jurgens) Overton, Asia Johnson, and Sydney Harrison share their experiences in navigating first job searches and wisdom gained from PGY2.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7wLwH2…

Looking for a FREE Patient education tool! Learn more about oral non-prescription pain medications (acetaminophen and NSAIDs) here 👇 buff.ly/3KYcfKR

In the last of our 5-part modules, you will learn the importance of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT), pharmacologic diuresis, and altering GDMT for those with CKD and heart failure.

🔗buff.ly/3YOK1Yw

#NephTwitter #TwitteRX #ChronicKidneyDisease

Introducing From the Vault, where we'll highlight some of the past webinars from the amazing Programming Committee that you can access at your leisure on YouTube!

First up: review of osteoporosis in transplant from back in February 2022; it's a great time for a refresher!

What are the different MRAs that are commercially available? And what evidence supports their use in patients with kidney disease?

🔗 Learn more at: buff.ly/3QdBRXE

#KidneyDisease #TwitteRX #NephTwitter

🗣NEW POD ALERT! Graduating SOT PGY2s Bridget Bucher, Courtney (Jurgens) Overton, Asia Johnson, and Sydney Harrison share their experiences in navigating first job searches and wisdom gained from PGY2.

open.spotify.com/episode/7wLwH2…

We hope you can join the 2023 Taiwan Kidney Health Symposium, where you can hear AKHOMM members discuss transforming medication management in patients with CKD!

🔗 Registration: buff.ly/3qHiBaE
🖱️ Check In: 6:30-6:55 PM CST
⏱️ Presentations: 6:55-10:00 PM CST

Sometimes, it is so disheartening to be in the field I'm in. To wake up and work every day, kill myself really only to have folks play in my face and in the faces of other minoritized people that I love is so disgusting. Moving forward, I will be seriously divesting.