The Kidney Chronicles: A Pediatric Nephrology Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Rhodes Hambrick, a pediatric nephrologist at Lurie Children’s Hospital, and Dr. Sonya Tang Girdwood, a pediatric hospitalist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, discuss the lack of data on drug dosing, particularly antibiotics, in the setting of pediatric renal replacement therapy and their work to change this.

In this episode Dr. Shaun Jackson, a pediatric rheumatologist and nephrologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital, discusses the novel use of CAR-T for Lupus and his ongoing pediatric clinical trial.

This is a special episode about juggling life as a nephrologist and mother. Guests include: Dr. Jennifer Jetton, professor and chief of pediatric nephrology at Children's Wisconsin, Dr. Melissa Muff-Luett, associate professor and chief of pediatric nephrology at Children's Nebraska, Dr. Leonela Villegas, assistant professor of pediatric nephrology at Connecticut Children's, Dr. Neha Pottanat, associate professor and dialysis director at Indiana/Riley Children's, Dr. Emilia Cadiz, assistant professor of pediatric nephrology at Phoenix Children's, and Dr. Andrea Kattah, professor of nephrology at Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Taylor Heald-Sargent, pediatric infectious disease specialist with expertise in transplantation and assistant professor of pediatrics at Lurie Children's, discusses vaccines in kidney transplant patients. 

 

References

Feldman et al. Safety and Immunogenicity of Live Viral Vaccines in Pediatric Transplant Recipients-  https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2810579 

 

American Society of Transplant Vaccination of solid organ transplant patients guidelines: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31002409/

 

AAP Vaccine Schedule: https://publications.aap.org/redbook/resources/15585/AAP-Immunization-Schedule?autologincheck=redirected

In this episode we discuss the use of growth hormone in patients with chronic kidney disease and interview Dr. Denver Brown, an assistant professor and pediatric nephrologist at Children’s National and Dr. Andrew Dauber a professor and department chair of pediatric endocrinology at Children’s National. 

 

Reference-

https://scispace.com/pdf/growth-hormone-and-insulin-like-growth-factor-dysregulation-1p4ku7jtmr.pdf