ASN Podcast

Dr. Gopa Green recounts surviving the Tubbs Fire while leading dialysis care during the crisis. She shares lessons on rapid communication, dialysis center disruptions, and supporting people receiving in-center dialysis, home dialysis, and transplant care.

Part Two continues with Srinath Yadlapalli, MD, Lori-Ann Fisher, MD, and Racquel Lowe-Jones, MD, discussing water quality, coordination with hospital administration and the Ministry of Health, and the broader recovery process.

Part One features host Srinath Yadlapalli, MD, in conversation with Lori-Ann Fisher, MD, and Racquel Lowe-Jones, MD, as they discuss the immediate impact of Hurricane Melissa on kidney care and dialysis in Jamaica.

Martina McGrath, MBChB, FASN; Jean Francis, MD, FASN; Ihab Michel Wahba, MD, FASN; and Amir Kazory, MD, FASN, speak with guest editor Biff F. Palmer, MD, to discuss his editorial on Hypernatremia from nephSAP Volume 25, Number 1.

Hosts ASN CEO & EVP Tod Ibrahim and Senior Policy & Govt. Affairs Coordinator Lauren Ahearn discuss the upcoming summer rulemaking season, ASN's USPSTF nomination, the annual AMA meeting in Chicago, IL, and more.

Amy Waterman, PhD, joins host Karandeep Singh, MD, to discuss how AI can improve kidney transplant care through earlier interventions, personalized patient support, and better access to transplantation across the patient journey.

Karandeep Singh, MD, speaks with Karin Bergling, MD, and Wisit Cheungpasitporn, MD, about the AI-Powered Kidney Care Network, an ASN Community for those with medical and technical backgrounds interested in AI and its applications in kidney care.

ASN Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Tod Ibrahim explores the history of eGFR with Tom Hostetter, MD, Crystal Gadegbeku, MD, and Andrew Levey, MD, founding director of the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI).

Guest Dr. Jeffrey Perl joins host Dr. Tushar Chopra to explore strategies to prevent peritoneal dialysis infections, address gaps in practice, review infection trends, and discuss opportunities for progress through collaboration and team-based care.

Hosts Tod Ibrahim and Lauren Ahearn are joined by Dr. Suzanne Watnick (ASN Health Policy Scholar) and Dr. Roz Mannon (Transplant Policy Chair) to discuss ASN's Hill Day and Dr. Watnick's House Ways & Means testimony.

Hosts Karandeep Singh, MD, and Navdeep Tangri, MD, explore how machine learning regression and predictive AI impact patient care by examining importance factors, support vector machines, data training, and ways to improve prediction accuracy.

In this episode, host Dr. Tushar Chopra and guest Dr. Jillian Warejko-Rossi will discuss encouraging fistulas while acknowledging teens' concerns about body image, scarring, "ugly" fistulas, and fear of needles.

Hosts Karandeep Singh, MD, and Navdeep Tangri, MD, dive into AI's expanding role in nephrology and how to navigate the strengths and challenges new technology poses to research as they look to the future of the kidney health landscape.