News & Announcements

Strategic Plan
December 16, 2019

ASPN Strategic Plan 2022-2027 Mission: The ASPN is the leading voice of pediatric nephrology in North America. Our primary goal is to advance care for children, adolescents, and young adults with kidney disease through advocacy, education, research, and workforce development. Goal 1: Ensure a diverse, sustainable, and robust pediatric nephrology…

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Eunice G. John (2019)
June 11, 2019

  It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our colleague and friend, Dr. Eunice John. Dr. John retired as Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine after serving UIC residents and patients for 42 years. Dr. John, who was chief of pediatric…

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ASPN 2019 Meeting Day 1 Podcast
May 2, 2019

In the first of three ASPN 2019 annual meeting podcasts, ASPN President Patrick Brophy, MD speaks with Gina-Marie Barletta, MD, Kim Reidy, MD, Jeffrey Kopp, MD, and Stella Shin, MD. The group discusses the activities taking place during the first day of the Annual Meeting.

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ASPN 2019 Meeting Day 3 Podcast
May 2, 2019

In the third of three ASPN 2019 annual meeting podcasts, Ibrahim F. Shatat, MD speaks with Joseph Flynn, MD, John Mahan, MD, and Jennifer Jetton, MD. The group discusses the activities taking place during the third day of the Annual Meeting.

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ASPN Meeting Day 2 Podcast
May 1, 2019

In the second of three ASPN 2019 annual meeting podcasts, Michelle Rheault, MD speaks with Lisa Guay-Woodford, MD, Erum Hartung, MD, and Donald Batisky, MD. The group discusses the activities taking place during the second day of the Annual Meeting.

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Robert O. Hickman, MD (2019)
April 18, 2019

Robert Othello Hickman passed peacefully from natural causes on April 4, 2019. He was born in Monticello, Utah on September 27, 1926, the youngest of five children of Othello and Mary Helen Bunker Hickman. He was reared and educated in Logan, Utah, served in the U.S. Air Force from 1945 to 1946,…

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Paul T. McEnery, MD (2019)
April 10, 2019

  Paul T. McEnery, MD, MBA, Professor Emeritus, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, passed away on March 28, 2019 at home after a long battle with heart failure. After completing a pediatric residency and nephrology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), Paul became the second nephrology faculty…

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John K. Orak, MD (2019)
February 28, 2019

On Sunday, February 17, 2019, Dr. John K. Orak, loving husband and caring father of four, passed away at the age of 67. John grew up in Linden, New Jersey and attended St. Peter’s College. His father was a firefighter and his mother was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia. In fact,…

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Colin Thomas White, MD (2018)
January 2, 2019

In Memoriam: A Tribute to Dr. Colin Thomas White, M.D. Dr. Colin Thomas White, MD, Clinical Associate of Pediatrics and a pediatric nephrologist at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and BC Children’s Hospital, died on July 29, 2018 at the age of 50 years. Colin distinguished himself as a…

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Larry E. Fleischman, MD (2016)
April 23, 2018

A fond farewell to a dear friend and a colleague Tej K. Mattoo and Rudolph P. Valentini Nephrology team at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan/Wayne State University Dr. Larry E. Fleischmann, MD, a pioneering Pediatric Nephrologist, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Wayne State University, and the past president of Children’s…

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