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(April 26, 2024, New York, NY) The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is excited to announce that renowned health equity expert Dr. Lisa Angeline Cooper will be the keynote speaker at the annual NKF 2024 Spring Clinical Meetings (SCM) in Long Beach, CA, which takes place from May 14 -18. Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of...
August 9, 2021 — A new partnership between the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the Alport Syndrome Foundation (ASF) is designed to give hope to the thousands of patients, including children and their families, who suffer from debilitating Alport syndrome, a rare genetic kidney disorder.
NKF and ASF will collaborate on the...
(Feb. 2, 2024, New York, NY) — The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) proudly announces that Dr. Sankar Niranjan, MD, FASN, will receive the prestigious Medical Advisory Board (MAB) Distinguished Service Award. This award was established to recognize exceptional individuals for their outstanding educational activities and community service in advancing the mission of NKF at a local level and is a testament...
(April 6, 2023, New York, NY) — The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is excited announce the appointment of Valerie Dixon, Managing Director in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley, to its National Board of Directors. Dixon was nominated and approved at NKF’s most recent Board meeting held in March.
...(April 4, 2023, New York, NY) — The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Monica Davy, Senior Vice President and Chief Culture, Diversity, and Impact Officer at Vizient, Inc., to its National Board of Directors. Davy was nominated and approved at NKF’s most recent Board meeting held in...
(April 24, 2024, New York, NY) — The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is thrilled to announce that Nephrologist and Professor of Medicine David M. Charytan, MD, MSc, will be the 2024 recipient of the prestigious J. Michael Lazarus Distinguished Award. Dr. Charytan maintains a broad clinical practice in...
Study published in the National Kidney Foundation’s American Journal of Kidney Diseases
May 25 2021 — Kidney patients need better, more relevant education to best participate in the decision-making about their treatment, a new study published in the National Kidney Foundation’s (NKF) American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) shows.
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Late-breaking presentation shared during National Kidney Foundation’s 2021 Spring Clinical Meetings
April 8, 2021—New York, NY — A troubling data point discovered during the COVID-19 crisis is that patients with kidney disease have not maintained their medical care as much as they had prior to the pandemic, according to the results of a study presented at the ...
March 9, 2021, New York, NY —The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is proud to announce Imperial Headwear as the “Official Headwear” and National Promotional Partner of the NKF Konica Minolta Golf Classic, which to date has raised more than $100 million to promote kidney health and improve the lives of the 37 million Americans affected by kidney disease.
...The new NKF Patient Network will help improve the lives of people with kidney disease through research, clinical care, drug development, and supportive health policy decisions
February 25, 2021, New York, NY —Today the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) launched the first-ever national registry for patients at all stages of kidney disease, the NKF Patient Network. This powerful...