National Kidney Foundation

The National Kidney Foundation launched Kidney Numbers and the CKD Heat Map, an animated video series to educate people about chronic kidney disease.

Researchers found the National Kidney Foundation Patient Network feasible as a national registry to “inform the development of patient-centered research, care and treatments,” according to published findings.

A national reckoning with racism in 2020, amplified by COVID-19 and stark economic and structural inequities, galvanized the nephrology community to address the role of racism in producing multi-decade kidney health disparities.

BOSTON — In this video from the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, Joseph A. Vassalotti, MD talks about the first live conference of the NKF in 2 years, amid thoughts on patients who died during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cari Maxwell, a member of the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Advocacy Committee, was honored with the Celeste Castillo Lee Patient Engagement Award at the NKF Spring Clinical Meetings, according to a press release.

J. Kevin Tucker, MD, nephrologist and vice president for education at Mass General Brigham, was honored with the Donald W. Seldin Award from the National Kidney Foundation, according to a press release.

BOSTON — Mark E. Neumann, editor-in-chief of Healio Nephrology and Nephrology News & Issues, received the Nostradamus Award from National Kidney Foundation’s Council of Advanced Practitioners during the NKF Spring Clinical Meetings, here.

Amy Wilson, MD, pediatric nephrologist at Indiana University School of Medicine and Riley Children’s Hospital, will receive the Medical Advisory Board Distinguished Service Award from the National Kidney Foundation.

Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University, will receive the Excellence in Transplantation Award from the National Kidney Foundation.

The National Kidney Foundation awarded Susan T. Crowley, MD, MBA, FASN, FNKF, with the David M. Hume Award, which is the highest honor given by the foundation to a scientist-clinician, according to a press release.