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Guest Dr. Jeffrey Perl joins host Dr. Tushar Chopra to explore strategies to prevent peritoneal dialysis infections, address gaps in practice, review infection trends, and discuss opportunities for progress through collaboration and team-based care.

In part one of this episode, host Dr. Srinath Yadlapalli and guest Dr. Matthew Arduino discuss methods to assess and maintain water quality at dialysis facilities during emergencies, including following the AAMI standards.

Hosts Tod Ibrahim and Lauren Ahearn are joined by Dr. Suzanne Watnick (ASN Health Policy Scholar) and Dr. Roz Mannon (Transplant Policy Chair) to discuss ASN's Hill Day and Dr. Watnick's House Ways & Means testimony.

In this episode, host Dr. Srinath Yadlapalli and guest Dr. Kristina Bryant discuss measles' diagnosis, prevention, management, and how dialysis centers can prepare for outbreaks.

Hosts Karandeep, MD, and Navdeep Tangri, MD, explore how machine learning regression and predictive AI impact patient care by examining importance factors, support vector machines, data training, and ways to improve prediction accuracy.

Guests Manish Tanna, MD, Eugene Lin, MD, and Suzanne Watnick, MD, discuss the shift from privately-owned practices to large, consolidated facilities and its clinical impact on quality of life and patient outcomes with host Andrew Cohen, MD.

In this episode, host Dr. Tushar Chopra and guest Dr. Jillian Warejko-Rossi will discuss encouraging fistulas while acknowledging teens' concerns about body image, scarring, "ugly" fistulas, and fear of needles.

Alice Sheridan, MD, FASN, Jean Francis, MD, FASN, and Martina McGrath, MBChB, FASN, interview editors Klement Yeung, MD, and Christopher T. Chan, MD on nephSAP editorial "It's Time for Home Hemodialysis to be Treated as an Established Dialysis Modality."

Hosts Karandeep, MD, and Navdeep Tangri, MD, dive into AI's expanding role in nephrology and how to navigate the strengths and challenges new technology poses to research as they look to the future of the kidney health landscape.

Pharmacist Ruth Smarinsky shares how Direct Relief and the American Society of Nephrology bridge kidney care gaps during global crises. Learn how they deliver dialysis supplies, transplant medications, and urgent care when disasters disrupt treatment.

Hosts Tod Ibrahim and Lauren Ahearn are joined by Rachel Meyer, ASN Senior Strategic Policy Advisor to the EVP, to break down where things stand on federal appropriations, kidney health research funding, and what to expect as we head into 2026.

Host Andrew Cohen, MD, speaks with medical historian Steven Peitzman, MD, on the birth of nephrology, a specialty that was not formally recognized until the mid-twentieth century. 

Host Andrew Cohen, MD, discusses the advent of recombinant erythropoietin (rEPO) and its impact on kidney care with Paul Kimmel, MD, FASN; Daniel Coyne, MD; and Ajay Singh, MD. 

Alice Sheridan, MD, FASN, and Martina McGrath, MD, FASN, speak with guest editors Sankar D. Navaneethan, MD, MS, MPH, and Garabed Eknoyan, MD, to discuss their editorial "ESKD: A Therapeutic Triumph of Nephrology" from nephSAP Volume 24, Number 4, ESKD.

Hosts Tod Ibrahim, ASN Executive Vice President and David White, Senior Quality & Regulatory Affairs Officer are joined by Lauren Ahearn, Senior Quality & Regulatory Affairs Associate to discuss the most recent spending package passed by Congress.