Nephrologist focused on glomerular diseases & clinical trials | PD for
@NU_Nephrology
GN fellowship | Rheum-Renal Lupus nephritis clinic | Tweets my own opinion
Today I witnessed the most selfless, inspiring, gift of life 💝 My colleague & dear friend Aleks just donated a kidney to a complete stranger. I had no idea what to take this incredible human! So I got a plush kidney to keep her remaining one company 💜
The recipe for a perfect fall Sunday? Afternoon tea to “sprinkle”
@RupalMehtaMD
with all our ♥️ So lucky to call all these amazing, inspiring women my friends & excited about our growing
@NU_Nephrology
family!
5 years ago, I joined
@NU_Nephrology
tasked with starting a
#GN
program.
@cybeleg1
suggested I start by expanding clinical trials and this ⬇️was my first trial as site PI. Pretty stoked it led to the first ever FDA (accelerated) approval for
#IgAN
🙌🏼
#IgANTreatment
Great news for patients and docs. The data from the NefIgArd trial that led to accelerated approval of Nefecon for the treatment of IgAN just out in Kidney International on line. First of many new therapies for IgAN!🤞
Mary Mahieu, MD, and Shikha Wadhwani, MD join us to discuss their multi-specialty approach to treating patients with Lupus Nephritis and how care has evolved during the global pandemic.
Listen now:
Thank you
@KidneyNews
for this opportunity & an entire issue focused on
#GN
!!! Hoping for some positive trials in
#C3G
to get new therapies from bench to bedside🙏🏼
@samirparikhOSU
Congrats to our incredible graduating
@NU_Nephrology
fellow class—proud of what you’ve accomplished & excited for what’s to come!
@PelegYoni
& I could not be more thrilled that our 1st
#GN
fellow
@krach_md
is staying local & joining the
@UICNeph
faculty!
When your friends are family 🥰 Doing a
#GN
fellowship at
@OhioStateNeph
was one of the best decisions I’ve made (for many reasons)—but mainly because it brought these wonderful humans into my life ♥️
#heartsofull
#nephfam
For the first time in years I am excited about my upcoming weekend call!! Why?? Because I look forward to seeing if patients are “alert and oriented” with the question: Who is the president of the United States? 🇺🇸 🗽
#FaithRestored
#bethelight
Thank you
@LupusOrg
for the invitation to speak tonight at this wonderful patient event!
#Lupus
may be an “invisible disease” but we are here to advocate for and support our patients every step of the way 💜👩🏻⚕️
Did you know over time up to 60% of people with
#lupus
will develop lupus nephritis?
Learn all about how lupus can impact
#kidneys
TONIGHT at 6PM CT
@lupusorg
’s free Lupus & You virtual education event.
Save your spot 👉
So many lives have been saved when this diagnosis is made and treatment promptly started. Just took my 2nd patient with pregnancy-associated
#ahus
off dialysis (and got to hold her 2-month old daughter!) Nothing is more satisfying as a nephrologist 💜
Today is
#aHUS
Awareness Day.
Atypical HUS affects both adults and children. It is characterized by the systemic formation of blood clots (TMAs) causing damage to the kidneys and other organs.
Discover more 👉
#aHUS24Sept
@aHUSAllianceAct
@aHUS24Sept
Kicking off the
#IIgANN
conference with an international patient panel 🤩 to remind us of the impact of delayed diagnosis, the uncertainty our patients face, & a need to drive further research & participation in
#clinicaltrials
!
@IGANFoundation
@nephcure
They are going to run out of awards and honors to give
@SusanQuaggin
🎖!! A truly amazing woman, leader, physician, scientist, and tireless advocate for
#kidneyhealth
and patients near and far. So fortunate to be on her team 💜
#rolemodel
Join us in congratulating
@NU_Nephrology
Chief and
#NUGoKidney
Director
@SusanQuaggin
, MD on being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (
@americanacad
).
Academy is one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Read more:
Nothing could have started my day better than seeing my dialysis shift get their long-awaited
#covid
💉 !!
@POTUS
@ASNKidney
@Fresenius
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 for prioritizing this vulnerable patient population!
#tearsofjoy
Humbled to get to introduce an all-star line up of speakers for an awesome
#GN
session: Drs. Liz Lightstone, Heather Reich, Laurence Beck, & Vivette D’Agati 🌟
#KidneyWeek
@ASNKidney
Thank you
@NKFCentralOH
for bringing me back to
#CBus
for a wonderful kidney & transplantation symposium today! Even better to be there with GN guru/organizer extraordinaire
@samirparikhOSU
& pregnancy expert
@SalemAlmaani
🤗
Welcoming our newest
#GN
family member
@Nephr0s
to the beautiful city of Chicago!! Can’t wait for all the great things to come for the newly established CGC (and our next happy hour) 🥂🎉
@PelegYoni
@NU_Nephrology
@uofcneph
Today is the day!! Official launch of the International Society of Glomerular Disease
@ISGDtweets
🎉 Honored to be a part of this incredible group & looking forward to collectively advancing Glomerular medicine! Stay tuned for what’s coming in 2023!
Amazing panel culminating with Dr. Cattran’s perfect call to action: better screening for IgAN, changing the threshold for treatment, & starting with newer, safer therapies before jumping to systemic steroids
#IIgANN
Just learned one of my favorite dialysis patients was found unarousable at home by the police 😭 (and I lost 2 in the ICU last week when I was out-of-town). I know I probably could not have “saved” any of them but it still hurts 💔
Thank you
@GlomCon
and
@Nephcure
for inviting me to be a part of this exciting series! Hoping we will soon be able to offer better, safer, and more-targeted therapies so we can improve the prognosis for our C3G patients🤞🏼
#noveltherapies
#benchtobedside
When you’re on service, have clinic, are drowning in notes, talk fluids all day (but forget to drink H2O), and then get this text from your cardiologist father 😭😭😭
#myfirsthero
#gottamakehimproud
You don’t want to miss the
#IgAN
session in 30 min with these amazing speakers!
@BradRovin
and I promise it’s going to be a great session!
#kidneywk2020
#GN
📣📣 BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. FDA has approved
@GSK
’s Benlysta for the treatment of lupus nephritis (LN) in children and teens. It is the first treatment specifically developed for
#lupus
that is approved to treat lupus or LN in this age group. Read more:
Incredibly honored and excited to be invited alongside all these
#GN
🌟!! Can’t wait to meet the fabulous
@WUNephrology
family (and hopefully sneak in time for a
#TedDrewes
🍦run!)
Not all ICI-nephrotoxicity is AIN! Excited to have been a part of this collaboration and shout out to
@onconeph
the first author on this paper and definitely someone to 👀 in the field!
#GN
#Onconeph
If you don’t know
@LauraMarianiMD
you need to!! She is one of the most inspiring, brilliant, dedicated, and supportive people I’ve met—lucky to call her a friend & colleague. 🙏🏼 for all you do for our patients & to advance the field!!
#GN
#gamechanger
I’m SO happy to share that my dear friend and fellow
@NorthwesternMed
nephrologist Aleks (who is post-op
#2
from altruistic kidney donation) is home, healing, and now on Twitter!! Please show her some love 💚
From building a hub for
#kidney
research with
#NUGoKidney
to finding new therapeutic targets,
@SusanQuaggin
talks to Northwestern Medicine Magazine about the research paving the way for future advancements in kidney health.
Had my youngest ever visitor in our joint
#LN
clinic today…3 wks out of the NICU & cute as a button! Mom has LN + APS (referred after fetal loss from HELLP 2 yrs ago). Grateful to have been a part of her 👩🏻🍼success story & have
@kidneydoc101
to look up to 💜
Moved to tears tonight by thankyou email.1 of 2 of my
#lupus
#patients
who had long long awaited babies this w/end
Not all plain sailing but the absolute honour & privilege of my career to have facilitated >1000
#pregnancies
in
#women
with
#KidneyDisease
disease
Never gets old
Nothing makes a Monday better than former
@NU_Nephrology
fellows texting you that they passed Nephrology boards 💃🏻 Huge congrats to our
#GN
fellow
@krach_md
and now txp fellows
@Maealotaibi
&
@portorenal
🎉 The future is bright with these 🌟 nephrologists!!
Could not be more inspired to continue the work we do for our patients after hearing superstars
@IgAN_JBarratt
&
@kidneybiz
start off the day discussing the evolving
#IgAN
therapeutic landscape!! It’s time to move toward personalized medicine 💪🏼!
#IIgANN
So fortunate to call Dr. Isakova one of my mentors! She is not only an incredible woman and physician-scientist, but a true inspiration to many of us at
#NorthwesternMedicine
(and beyond)!!! 🎉🙌🏼
@womeninnephro
@nu_ipham
Today’s
#IIgANN
sessions were an
#IgAN
enthusiast’s DREAM 🤓!
⚡️Significant uPCR decline in phase II ORIGIN, SPARTAN, & ENVISION studies
⚡️Exciting post-hoc analyses from Phase III NefIgArd trial
⚡️Looking ahead to ASSIST & BEYOND
➡️ MUCH more to come!!
Coming soon to a NEJM near you ... Finally!! (The mail comes early in Boston - stay tuned for the July 4 issue, 10 years and 2 days after PLA2R) Congrats Fernando and Dan!!!
Please take 2.5 seconds to sign this critical petition to help remove racial inequities that limit access to
#kidneytransplants
🙏🏼 Anyone can support this important cause! You don’t have to be a nephrologist or a patient!
@NU_Nephrology
@NM_Transplant
More signatures are needed for this petition to remove race from the kidney transplant equation-please add your name! My name is there!! You need to be there!
@NKF_Advocacy
Check this out from my friend and complement-in-pregnancy expert! As a
#GN
doc who sees a lot of preeclampsia in my patient population, I anxiously await results from the
#CRUSHtrial
🤞🏼
How it started:
Eculizumab for the treatment of preeclampsia/HELLP syndrome.
How it’s going:
Complement regulation to undo systemic harm in preeclampsia.
The CRUSH trial.
@brendonneuen
SGLT2i trials enrolled Pts w/much more advanced CKD than IgAN RCTs do. Many of my patients with IgAN have signif. proteinuria but more preserved GFRs & there is really no data (yet) to show SGLT2i have a protective effect that early or are superior.
In 2005,
@JAMA_current
Deputy Editor Dr. Mary McDermott hired a college grad as a research coordinator. Today before her
@NU_IntMed
faculty talk I got to surprise & thank her for inspiring my career (and focus on clinical trials)!
#myfirstboss
#grateful
💜
It really is the year of 2s in 2022!! Extremely happy to see not 1 but 2 GN regions in
#NephMadness
🤩 So excited to fill out brackets with
@Neph_SIM
and
@NU_Nephrology
!! Any GN friends want to fill out a very “unbiased” bracket together??? 😂
So much to be thankful for this year but especially grateful for our amazing inaugural
#GN
fellow
@krach_md
💜 So excited to continue the tradition in 2023 ⬇️!!
1/🚨 Medical students & residents who want to learn more about
#nephrology
& join our community 🚨
Applications are open for the 2023
#NephSIM
Nephrons 6-month Virtual Mentoring Program
Why should you apply by 11/30? A brief 🧵
#NephJC
#KidneyWk
Not thrilled about the cold and counting down the days to the holidays?!?! Grab your ☕️ and come join us online @ 10 am CST to hear about our current state of understanding and active
#clinicaltrials
for
#DDD
and
#C3GN
!
@NU_Nephrology
The breakthrough progress in C3GN may serve as the prime example of what our community of nephrologists, nephropathologists, scientists, regulators, and the industry can achieve in a short time when uniting forces
@Nephcure
#KidneyHealthInitiative
@ASNKidney
Join us👇
My dear dialysis patient is dying of metastatic cancer & I’m just not ready to say goodbye. He’s in so much pain & yet his face lights up every time I see him 🥺I hate that he is suffering, yet selfishly want to still see that smile every week.
#cancersucks
Meds in
#lupus
at
#EULAR2023
recs
- HCQ first line therapy. Target dose remains the same. Some discussion on monitoring levels if possible
- MAIN CHANGE - Glucocorticoids to be minimized (only use for bridging). Nephrologists more so in favor of steroid free remission
@RheumNow
Researchers from
@UMich
and
@NorthwesternU
want to learn from those impacted with swelling, or edema, due to Nephrotic Syndrome (NS). The information collected from the interviews will be used to develop a survey to use when testing new medications for NS.
Had SO much giving our fabulous fellows a talk on kidney path (from a nephrologist’s standpoint) today!! Of course, had to make it relevant for 2020 🙃
#nocrowdsofcells
#socialdistancingplease
Tomorrow is the day!! Looking forward to our
@NU_Nephrology
rockstar
@SeifNay
presenting a
#GN
case we saw together earlier this year 🙌🏼 You can pick: 💻 or 🍝 +🍷…no wrong answers but I personally can’t wait to see other Chicago-area nephrologists IRL!!
Hey
#NephChicago
! Don't miss Citywide Grand Rounds THIS THURSDAY! Moderated by
@NephRodby
&
@ClaudiaMLora
. Fascinating case presentations, networking with colleagues, and you choose how to participate: virtually or in person at Maggianos. See you there!
When you find you that out of over 3000 applicants worldwide, your brother was chosen as 1 of 15 finalists for a photograph he submitted, you drop everything and head to
@BoulderTheater
for the Roam awards 🙌🏼
#proudbigsis
#blownaway
@roam_here
Though we can’t ✈️ to 🇮🇹 or celebrate the holidays in person,
@SusanQuaggin
will still find a way to throw an amazing party! Hoping Chef Gallon wants to make this a holiday tradition (and
@EatalyChicago
doesn’t try to steal him from us 🍝🍷 🤞🏼)!
Now this is what alternative
#complement
pathway dreams are made of 😍 SOO many Qs: 1) what’s the underlying genetic mutation 2) is sMAC elevated 3) is there an associated monoclonal protein 4) does the patient respond to tx—and which is the chosen one?!?!
3 in 1! Great case with overlapping findings of aHUS, C3GN & DDD. LM=MPGN pattern, IF=bright C3, Neg C4d (& Ig), EM=many loops with subendothelial fluff (aHUS/TMA), electron dense deposits (C3GN), & dense intramembranous deposits (DDD). 60 yr old with hematuria & proteinuria.1/2
.
@kdjhaveri
joining WCM Neph for grand rounds today on the frontiers of
#MedEd
research. Also highlighting applications to glomerular disease, onconephrology, and his work as EIC of
@KidneyNews
.