Preparing for the Surge: Nephrologists Prepare for Fall COVID-19 Surge, Increased Dialysis Demand
(Published in KidneyNewsOnline.com) As the COVID-19 pandemic started sweeping across the United States this spring, hospitals began preparing for a surge in critically ill patients by increasing the numbers of intensive care unit (ICU) beds and trying to secure more ventilators. But they were “blindsided” by a huge increase in the need for renal replacement […]
Medical Students Lead Effort to Remove Race from Kidney Function Estimates
(Published in kidneynews.org) When a lecturer at the University of Washington School of Medicine described the use of black race as an adjustment in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) calculations, it made medical student Naomi Nkinsi uncomfortable. The use of race as a proxy for muscle mass hearkened back to racist comments she’d heard suggesting […]
Scientist and Parent: Planning during pregnancy
(Published in eLife) Navigating her own two pregnancies while running a laboratory taught Shubha Tole, now a senior professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India, that pregnancy does not have to derail a woman’s career in science. Since then, she has helped three of her postdoctoral fellows navigate their own pregnancies […]
