Congratulations to the ASPN Research Committee Member of the Month! Please join us in celebrating the remarkable and diverse research works of our community! July Member Spotlight: Dr. Carmen Halabi! Dr. Halabi’s laboratory utilizes mouse models with genetic mutations affecting the extracellular matrix to study blood vessel development and associated…
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The Class of 2025 graduated from the ASPN LDP in Honolulu on April 24, 2025. Caitlin Clark (Rady/UC-SD), Olga Charnaya (Hopkins), Meredith Harris (Laurie/NW), Gaurav Kapur (CH Michigan/Wayne), Amy Kogan (CHOP/PA), Tahagod Mohamed (NCH/OSU), Yonique Petgrave (Dallas/UT-SW), Meredith Schuh (Cincy/UC), Sonia Solomon (Westchester/NYMC), Bernarda Viteri (CHOP/PA) and Laurel Willig (Children’s…
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A Historic Collaboration From March 19–23, 2025, the 51st Miami Pediatric Nephrology Seminar convened at the Hyatt Regency in Miami, FL, in conjunction with the Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium (PNRC) Spring Meeting—marking the first-ever joint event between these two organizations, well known amongst the pediatric nephrology community. This landmark collaboration…
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The time has come for another cycle of the John E. Lewy Foundation Advocacy Scholars Program! As a member of the most recent cohort, I’ll borrow the words of a fellow “JELF squad” member and say that this has truly been a transformative experience. From learning about the program’s early…
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June 27, 2025 Dr Prasad Devarajan is a pediatric nephrologist at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He specializes in pediatric acute kidney injury and kidney stone disease. He has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed publications, 100 book chapters, and delivered more than 250 invited lectures nationally and internationally. Dr…
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Background:I am at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s Hospital and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. I have been at Cedars-Sinai for 35 years and affiliated with UCLA for 49! I did my pediatric training at the wonderful Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh followed by a clinical pediatric nephrology fellowship at…
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Over the past few months, JELF members have been working hard to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of healthcare funding and research. We have especially been focusing on proposed cuts to Medicaid. This topic has come into greater focus over the past month when the House Committee on…
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During these unsettling times with widespread cuts in federal aid for medical care, research and safety nets for the poor, it is important to look at the history of our field and learn from those visionaries who tackled challenges and founded our subspecialty. The foremost among those was Dr Henry…
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Join co-hosts Emily Zangla and Jordy Salcedo in this final episode of The Sediment 2025 covering the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology sessions at the recent Pediatric Academic Societies in Honolulu Hawaii. Deepa Chand walks us through the session on FDA drug approval in children, Amanda Clark and Juhi Kumar…
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Join co-hosts Emily Zangla and Jordy Salcedo in this second episode of The Sediment 2025 covering the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology sessions at the recent Pediatric Academic Societies in Honolulu Hawaii. Ari Pollack talks to us about artificial intelligence in the field of nephrology, Armish Jain and Jordy discuss…
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