📣Are you or your partner living with CKD? Researchers QUBNursing&Midwifery want to hear about your experiences with sexual health in the context of CKD. Share your insights regardless of your sexual orientation. 🌈 Interested? 💬Email: [email protected] Your voice matters! #CKD #SexualHealth

When should a #renal biopsy be performed & what are the key factors that influence this decision? How does clinical practice in the UK compare with other countries? 🌍 Take this 5-minute survey & contribute to an international study 📝 👉 bit.ly/470mtlS

Kidney disease: Confronting a ‘silent epidemic’ medicalindependent.ie/in-the-news/ne… Irish Kidney Association National Office of Clinical Audit HSE Clinical Design and Innovation Irish Nephrology Society TILDA Beaumont Hospital Irish College of GPs Colm Burke TD #CKD #kidneydisease

The 'before' and 'after' pics from the Castlewellan Christmas Cracker run 2023 today with 2 kidney recipients and a living donor in the mix among our representatives, giving a shout out to Organ Donation Northern Ireland along the way.

Happy Thursday! Registration is open for ANCA-Vasculitis 2024: Update in Diagnosis and Treatment (March 1st). Feel free to register for our complimentary, virtual program using the following link: eventleaf.com/e/ANCA2024

Published today our observational study demonstrates low peri & 1 year post-tx CV complications despite minimised cardiac screening for kidney tx recipients Minimisation of Cardiovascular Disease Screening for Kidney Transplant Candidates mdpi.com/2670124 via JCM MDPI

🚨 Publication from PhD student Xingge Sun co-supervised by Dr Clare Mckeaveney Helen Noble. Protocol led by QUB Centre for Medical Education SSC students Matthew Henderson and Fiona Fitzell. Thanks also to Jack Peng and Joanne Shields for their nephrology expertise! bmcnephrol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

We are so thankful & grateful to the 13 relay teams & 3 runners who took part in Belfast City Marathon on our behalf. Congratulations on taking part 👏We are so amazed at the amount of support we had with people cheering participants on - what a wonderful #KidneyCommunity 💙🕯️

Battling the rain with Michael Corr for Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund. Thanks Bob Stewart’s for keeping us dry and fed!

Busy week ahead presenting our results at #UKKW2024 & #INS24 . Manuscript almost ready for submission too. Thanks all who participated! Joel M. Topf, MD FACP Swapnil Hiremath @[email protected] National Kidney Foundation

Many thanks to attendees, presenters and funders for #INS24. Congratulations to this year’s award winners Sara Knezevic, Srishti Dadheech, Elhussein Elhassan Michael Toal Simon Piggott 👏👏👏

#INS24 Award Winners: Best Clinical Science Oral Presentation: Dr Michael Toal Michael Toal AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF RENAL BIOPSY PRACTICE: AN IRISH PERSPECTIVE Queen's University Belfast 🎓 Irish Nephrology Society

Professor Charuhas V Thakar, Director of Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious American Society of Nephrology American Society of Nephrology Distinguished Leader Award for 2024. The award recognises Professor Thakar’s world-leading work in the fight against #KidneyDisease, through educating

Transplant World Cup here we come!

How do patients experience a kidney biopsy? Our paper explores how to facilitate access to this essential investigation. Big thanks to the patient participants for guiding this project! Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund Transplant Sport NI Kidney Care UK doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Great to see this published! Well done to Michael Toal and team! Having had a biopsy on both my native kidneys and transplanted kidney through the years, I have experienced the need for this research. Thank you for letting me be a part of it! #Researchpaper #Biopsy #Kidney

🚨🧬 New NICOLA_QUB paper Here we describe the recruitment strategy & characteristics of participants with #DNA #Methylation in NIs largest longitudinal cohort aged >50yrs. An incredible resource to unpick some of the biological processes of #ageing ▶️bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/9/e…

Looking forward to speaking tonight with Sharon Millen at the RVH Liver Support Group meeting about the benefits of sport after transplantation. Transplant Sport NI #giftoflife