American Society Of Nephrology Inc

KIDNEY HEALTH INITIATIVE

PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN NEPHROLOGY - SEE ATTACHED

DIALYSIS ACCESS JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION (DA-JEDI) PROGRAM. - ABSTRACT ASN IS THE LARGEST NEPHROLOGY SOCIETY IN THE WORLD WITH MORE THAN 21,000 MEMBERS AND A LONGSTANDING COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION. WITHIN KIDNEY DISEASE THERE IS A GREAT NEED FOR EQUITY IN DIALYSIS ACCESS (DA). WE PLAN TO SIGNIFICANTLY EXPAND OUR DEI FOOTPRINT IN THIS AREA THROUGH THE DIALYSIS ACCESS- JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAM (DA-JEDI) BY RECRUITING A COHORT OF FELLOWS/EARLY-CAREER FACULTY WHO IDENTIFY AS UNDERREPRESENTED IN MEDICINE (URM). THESE INDIVIDUALS WOULD THEN BE EXPOSED TO A UNIQUE BLEND OF MENTORSHIP, LEADERSHIP, AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT COURSES, WITH A STRONG DA FOCUS, THAT WILL SET THEM ON A PATHWAY TO BECOME CHAMPIONS FOR EQUITABLE, PATIENT-CENTERED DA CARE, AND ALSO FUTURE LEADERS IN ASN AND THE BROADER DIALYSIS ACCESS AND KIDNEY COMMUNITY. WE WILL ACHIEVE THESE GOALS THROUGH FOUR SPECIFIC AIMS. IN SPECIFIC AIM 1 WE WILL RECRUIT A COHORT OF PARTICIPANTS WHO IDENTIFY AS URM INTO DA-JEDI. IN SPECIFIC AIM 2 WE WILL PROVIDE INDIVIDUALIZED DIDACTIC AND EXPERIENTIAL SKILLS TRAINING THROUGH ASN INITIATIVES, THROUGH THE PARTICIPANTS CTSA, OR THOUGH DA-JEDI’S OWN CTSA LINKS. THIS WILL INCLUDE AN ANNUAL DA-JEDI SYMPOSIUM. IN SPECIFIC AIM 3, WE WILL FOSTER UNIQUE MULTI-FACETED MENTORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES, AND FINALLY IN SPECIFIC AIM 4 WE WILL FOCUS ON THE CREATION OF AN ALUMNI NETWORK, PROMOTE NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES AND DEVELOP AN INTERACTIVE EVALUATION PROCESS WITH A STRONG FEEDBACK LOOP. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER, WE STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT GROWING OUR DA-JEDI PARTICIPANTS INTO FUTURE LEADERS FOR ASN, THE KIDNEY COMMUNITY, AND THE DA COMMUNITY, WILL ALLOW US TO BETTER SERVE OUR PATIENTS, WHO DESERVE JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION IN BOTH DA AND KIDNEY CARE.

2012 ASN ADVANCES IN GERIATRIC NEPHROLOGY

2016 ASN KIDNEY STARS (STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS AT KIDNEY WEEK)

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY: FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE - PROJECT SUMMARY ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY (AKI) IS AN INCREASINGLY PREVALENT WORLDWIDE PROBLEM THAT HAS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON PATIENT MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY, INCLUDING A MARKED INCREASED RISK OF PROGRESSIVE CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD). DESPITE THIS, NO THERAPIES HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO ACCELERATE RECOVERY OR PREVENT PROGRESSION TO CKD IN PATIENTS WITH AKI. THERE ARE SEVERAL REASONS FOR THIS, BUT A MAJOR FACTOR HAS BEEN THE LACK OF EFFECTIVE COLLABORATIVE PIPELINES BETWEEN BENCH RESEARCHERS STUDYING THE MECHANISMS AND THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES FOR AKI, AND CLINICAL SCIENTISTS IMPLEMENTING HYPOTHESIS TESTING CLINICAL TRIALS IN PATIENTS WITH AKI. HOWEVER, ASIDE FROM THE ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY (ASN), THERE ARE NO OTHER ESTABLISHED FORUMS THAT PROMOTE DIRECT EXCHANGE OF IDEAS BETWEEN THE CLINICAL AND BASIC SCIENCE AKI RESEARCH COMMUNITIES IN ACADEMIA, INDUSTRY, AND GOVERNMENT. TO ADDRESS THIS, WE ARE SEEKING SUPPORT FOR THE 3RD “ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY: FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE” CONFERENCE HOSTED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY, WHICH WILL BE HELD MAY 4-7, 2025, AT THE LANSDOWNE RESORT IN LEESBURG, VA. THE AIMS OF THIS CONFERENCE SERIES ARE: 1) TO REVIEW STATE OF THE ART AND WORK IN PROGRESS, BASIC, TRANSLATIONAL, AND CLINICAL RESEARCH ON AKI; 2) TO PROVIDE A PLATFORM TO HELP DEVELOP NEW INVESTIGATORS TRAINED TO THINK IN A MORE TRANSLATIONAL WAY ABOUT AKI; 3) TO PROVIDE A FORUM FOR NETWORKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES, INCLUDING PATIENT ADVOCACY AND URM SCIENTISTS; AND 4) TO PROVIDE A WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR TRAINEES WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO MEET AND DEVELOP LONG-TERM MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS WITH LEADERS IN THEIR FIELD; CAREER ADVICE; AND DISCUSSIONS ABOUT CHALLENGING TOPICS FOR RESEARCH LEADERSHIP INCLUDING IMPOSTER SYNDROME AND HIRING A DIVERSE RESEARCH TEAM. THIS CONFERENCE WAS FIRST HELD IN 2019 IN ASILOMAR, THEN IN 2022 IN BANFF CANADA. FOR THE 2025 CONFERENCE, WE HAVE INVITED 34 ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND CONFIRMED 14/34 (41%) ARE FEMALE, NON-BINARY, OR UNDERREPRESENTED IN MEDICINE, AND NINE (26%) ARE EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATORS/POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS. THEY WILL GIVE STATE-OF-THE-ART AND WORK IN PROGRESS TALKS ON TOPICAL ASPECTS OF RESEARCH IN THE BASIC, TRANSLATIONAL, AND CLINICAL SCIENCE OF AKI. THESE PRESENTATIONS WILL BE INTERMINGLED WITH 14 ADDITIONAL ABSTRACTS SELECTED ORAL PRESENTATIONS LARGELY FROM TRAINEES, AS WELL AS A POSTER SESSION TO ENCOURAGE SCIENTIFIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DIVERSE AKI SCIENTISTS. TRAINEE/EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR REGISTRATION WILL BE FREE FOR THE TOP 25 PRESENTING AUTHORS, AND 25 TRAVEL AWARDS WILL BE AVAILABLE, 15 OF WHICH WE HOPE WILL BE FUNDED BY THE R13 GRANT. OF TRAVEL AWARDS SOME WILL BE FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO FULFIL THE NIH CRITERIA OF BEING UNDERREPRESENTED IN RESEARCH. THROUGH TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS AND CONNECTIONS WITH THE WOMEN IN NEPHROLOGY AND NETWORK OF MINORITY HEALTH RESEARCH INVESTIGATORS, WE WILL STRIVE TO INCREASE DIVERSITY AT THIS CONFERENCE. WE EXPECT THE MEETING WILL ATTRACT CLINICAL AND BASIC SCIENTISTS FROM ACADEMIA, AND INVESTIGATORS AND LEADERS FROM COMPANIES AND THE GOVERNMENT INVOLVED IN PRE-CLINICAL AND CLINICAL AKI RESEARCH.

2015 ASN KIDNEY STARS (STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS AT KIDNEY WEEK)

2015 ASN ADVANCES IN RESEARCH CONFERENCE

2013 ASN PROGRAM FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS

2011 ASN IMPROVING DESIGN AND CONDUCT OF PRAGMATIC TRIALS AND CLINICAL STUDIES IN

2011 ASN PROGRAM FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS

2011 ADVANCES IN RESEARCH CONFERENCE: MICRORNA

2010 ASN ADVANCES IN RESEARCH CONFERENCE: THE CYTOSKELETON AND CELL MOTILITY

2017 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY KIDNEY WEEK KIDNEY STARS PROGRAM

SUPPORT TO PROVIDE TRAVEL AWARDS FOR THE 2017 ASN ADVANCES IN RESEARCH CONFERENCE

2014 ASN ADVANCE IN RESEARCH CONFERENCE

2014 ASN KIDNEY STARS (STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS AT KIDNEY WEEK)

2014 ASN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR

2012 ASN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR

2012 ASN UPDATE ON PATIENT CENTERED OUTCOMES RESEARCH IN KIDNEY DISEASE

2012 ASN ADVANCES IN RESEARCH CONFERENCE: AUTO AND ALLOIMMUNITY

2012 ASN PROGRAM FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS

2013 ASN ADVANCES IN RESEARCH CONFERENCE

2013 ASN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR