Nephrologist 👩🏻‍⚕️• CKD researcher👩🏻‍💻 •

Sydney, Australia
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Save the date! Don't miss #TTS2026 in Sydney, Australia! 🇦🇺 🌏Join the world's leading transplantation experts to share research, discuss advancements, and address challenges in organ transplantation! 🗓️ September 20–23, 2026 ✔️Abstract submissions open in January! ✔️ Registration opens in March! More info to come! 🔗 TTS2026.org #TransplantTwitter #MedTwitter
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Causal Relationship Between Kidney Function and Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study buff.ly/4fFsDgX @ellendobrijevic @anitavanzwieten @andy_grant1 @JonathanCCraig @tpinto_stats @germjacq @CKRRenal @syd_health @BEAT_CKD
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2024 oct-nov @KidneyNews @ASNKidney #kidneywk 2024 Targeting CD38 in Acute Antibody-Mediated Rejection: A New Hope for Kidney Transplant Recipients? Jennifer S. Y. Li @germjacq kidneynews.org/view/journals…
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🎉Congrats to the #TTS2024 Women in Transplantation 2024 Award Winners: Curie Ahn (leader in tp), Wenshi Jiang (unsung hero), Katayoun Najafizadeh (unsung hero). These women have had an extraordinary impact in transplantation - congratulations! 🏆 👏
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Next up (Thurs night 10pm 🇦🇺AEST!) in @ttsorg Ed Com webinar series, a session on #cancer in #OrganTransplantation led by the fab @ttsecmc, featuring stellar speakers @ericau, Dr Abijit Kitchlu & @nymurakami, and moderated by @GeorginaIrish!!
🚨 Webinar tomorrow ➡️ Cancer in Solid Organ Transplantation. With 🗣️Georgina Irish, Eric Au, Abijit Kitchlu, Naoka Murakami. 🗓️Thurs., Aug 15 @ 8:00 am (ET) Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/mr38a7y8 #tts2024 #transpanttwitter #medtwitter
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🚨Webinar tomorrow 👉 How Sex Differences Affect Patient and Graft Outcomes in Kidney Transplantation. We hope to see you there! With speakers @LjwestWest, @AnetteMelk, Brenda Rosales, Lorna Marson, Katya Loban 🗓️ Thursday, August 8 at 9 am (ET) info 👉 tts.org/join-tts?id=1482
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Germaine Wong retweeted
Exciting consumer opportunity alert! Looking for Adults (aged 18 years and above) with lived experience of childhood CKD and/ or their Caregivers. Express your interest in becoming a member of the TACKLE IT TRIAL Consumer Advisory Board via beatckd.org/tackle-it-trial/
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Congrats @ellendobrijevic on this robust investigation of the #causal relationship between kidney function and #cancer using #mendelianrandomization methods in @AJKDonline @germjacq @tpinto_stats #nephtwitter ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386%…
Causal Relationship Between Kidney Function and Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study - American Journal of Kidney Diseases ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386%… @CKRRenal @BEAT_CKD
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The randomized controlled trial (#NAVKIDS2) of a patient navigator program created for children with chronic #kidneydisease doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2024.… @CKRRenal @syd_health @UQscience @MCRI_for_kids #CKD #PedNeph
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The randomized controlled trial (NAVKIDS2) of a patient navigator prog... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Ieyesha’s contribution to @cariguidelines @syd_health @CKRRenal has been invaluable. Her resilience, warmth, and knowledge have transformed our work. This acknowledgement of her is very well deserved and one of many more to come.
📣 ANNOUNCEMENT - Finalists for NAIDOC Youth Award 📣 Congratulations Ieyesha Roberts, a proud Dunghutti woman from Kempsey in the Macleay Valley of NSW. Winners will be announced at the National Awards Ceremony. FULL VIDEO: facebook.com/share/v/zYCzTiN…
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Current Issue Table of Contents: Seminars in Nephrology on transplantation onconephrology seminarsinnephrology.org/iss…
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In our @bmj_latest editorial, we call for policy makers to not adopt new US recommendations to start mammography screening from age 40. With @brooke_nickel @Thanya_Indu Mitzi Blennerhassett and @stacymcarter @wiserhealthcare @syd_health @SydneySPH @PreventingODx 🧵1/7
The US Preventive Services Task Force has updated its recommendation for the age when all women should start mammography screening, lowering it from 50 to 40. The new recommendation could cause more harm than benefit, say @KatyJLBell and colleagues bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q135…
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Congratulations to ISN journals on their most recent impact factor: @Kidney_Int- 14.8 @KIReports- 5.7 KI Supplements - 19.3
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TSANZ Women in Transplantation Plenary Session: Dr Gomathy Narasimhan, the first woman multi-organ transplant surgeon in India, shares the challenges and successes of establishing deceased donor transplantation in India 👏👏👏
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Germaine Wong retweeted
A standardised evidence-based approach to monitoring graft health is critical in #kidneytransplant. Read this commentary on Bromberg et al’s study on dd-cf DNA as an indicator of acute rejection in @TransplantJrnl by @germjacq @_siahk @anitavanzwieten doi.org/10.1097/tp.000000000…
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New blog post on #overadjustmentbias - an important bias hiding in plain sight - on the @IntJEpidemiol blog ije-blog.com/2024/04/17/over… @Saamaankh @germjacq @FionaBlyth2 (Covering our 2 recent papers doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyad174 and doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyad177)
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