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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

May everyone associated with Nephrology have dreams to #SockItToKidneyDisease far larger than your memories of even your most impactful days. On this #WorldKidneyDay, it is Day One!

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

On this #WorldKidneyDay, let's #SockItToKidneyDisease and celebrate everyone who is making it happen!

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Thank you to Drs. Paul DeCaen and Orhi Esarte for having me at today's Advanced Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Topography open house and symposium. Exciting to see how quickly the technology is progressing.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Glad the partial government shutdown is ending. Not happy NIH people were impacted. So wish I were the Health and Human Secretary, lobbing hard for the people in government working every day to make a difference.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Martin Luther King - March 25, 1966.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Vertex founder "Boger aspired not only to be successful but also to change the standard by which success in pharmaceuticals was measured, both within the industry and in society." Let's do that with Nephrology.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Vertex founder Boger "often told people he wanted Vertex to be the most feared pharmaceutical company and the most fun...feared because of its fearlessness, fun because it was more exciting to dare, excel, and win against all odds..." Let's make this the culture of Nephrology.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

“Don’t you think this is five years too early?” (Vertex) founding scientist and president Joshua Boger was often asked. “Yes,” he would say, “but five years from now it’ll be five years too late.” Let's make Nephrology the medical field that is always way out in front.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This was Vertex' founder Joshua Boger's recruiting line for getting people to join his team. Let's adopt it for Nephrology. “If I’m right, I’m gonna save a million lives a year. What else are you doing that’s so damn important?”

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Vertex Pharmaceuticals. A company build on the extreme confidence, focus, and passion that they could achieve the then revolutionary goal to build drugs from the atom up. Let's bring the same belief in ourselves and energy to Nephrology's push to go from bench to bedside.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Merry Christmas to everyone who is celebrating! And thank you to everyone taking care of kidney patients today.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Reading another seminal paper on the Valley of Death in translational research, with an eye on Nephrology's future. “Assessing the translatability of drug projects: what needs to be scored to predict success?” Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (2009) by Dr. Martin Wehling.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Saturday morning at a coffee shop reading the seminal article, "Translational research: crossing the valley of death," from Nature in 2008 by Declan Butler. Let's turn the kidney valley of death into the runway into tomorrow.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Watching Amazon Web Services' annual conference. Imagine if Nephrologists had an AI assistant that analyzed all the data a kidney patient produces - more than a human could ever digest - to serve as the Dr.'s virtual assistant - freeing up time and increasing insight.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

A great morning when I run into a pioneer in the visualization of the molecular basis of kidney disease, Orhi Esarte Palomero, PhD from @nu-nephrology.bsky.social , and we have an awesome conversation about his research with his wife, pediatric respiratory researcher Ashley Cunningham.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Thank you to @obrienkidney.bsky.social for highlighting innovative kidney research and all that you do for kidney health. Let's make every day in Nephrology better than yesterday.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Imagine what Nephrology would look like if everyone in the field collaborated with someone in a seemingly unrelated field. The geologist on how to break kidney stones, the coach on how to motivate patients, the engineer on the dialysis machine.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Let's make our Nephrology messaging far more compelling. No more 3 times a week of four hours of dialysis. Instead, a 50% chance of being dead in five years, a higher mortality rate than some solid organ cancers, and a fierce urgency for major advances.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

How many dialysis patients just celebrated their last Thanksgiving? Let's drive that number lower every year. ...with a Nephrology united by fierce ambition, tight timelines, and transparent metrics to light up the field and its patients with a dialysis that is always better.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Let's have a vision for dialysis technology - "Always better." Repeated at every new fellows orientation, professional gathering, and investor presentation.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Kicking off Thanksgiving with a 5K. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who is celebrating!

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Up very late reading a Harvard case study on how Target ALS, a disease where little progress had been made in 100 years, brought vision ("everyone lives"), funding, and broke down silos to supercharge innovation. Let's do the same for kidney health. case.hks.harvard.edu/dan-doctorof...

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Dan Doctoroff and the Power of Collaboration: Target ALS Accelerates the Race Against a Deadly Disease

Harvard Kennedy School Case Program is the world's largest producer and repository of case studies designed to train public leaders.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The Sunday plenary xenotransplantation session at #KidneyWk is worth watching on YouTube. In addition to so many exciting developments, glad to hear the patient voice is helping drive innovation forward.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

“Everyone Lives” - Target ALS documentary worth watching. Three operating principles: • Impatient Optimism (urgency + belief) • Deliberate Disruption (break what’s broken) • Radical Collaboration (dissolve silos) Time to get deliberately impatient about kidney health.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Great #KidneyWk. Exciting developments in pharma and transplantation. But here’s what keeps me up: dialysis innovation has barely moved. It’s the third leg of the stool, and we’re pretending a two-legged stool is stable. Time to get serious about breakthrough dialysis technology.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Surprised when basic science kidney researchers at #KidneyWk tell me they rarely talk with kidney patients. We need to flip this. Show researchers the real lives their work impacts. Motivation isn’t abstract — it’s human. Let’s build those connections systematically.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Excellent #KidneyWk presentation by @glombandit.bsky.social on why kidney biopsies still matter in membranous nephropathy. Plus the integration of rigorous clinical thinking with her kidney artwork. Well done.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Seeing @daniel-batlle.bsky.social and @jwaitz.bsky.social at #KidneyWk — always a reminder that nephrology’s strength is in its people. Leaders who engage, contribute, and elevate the conversation.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#KidneyWk: Join us for a policy/advocacy/community health meetup. If you are interested in these topics, this conversation is for you. Today at 6pm. Open to all.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Kidney Week. Here to connect with the people building nephrology’s unrecognizable future. DMs open. #KidneyWk

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

For our conversations at #KidneyWk... What if we built nephrology from scratch today? Not tweaked it. Not optimized the current system. Not made dialysis 3% better or transplant waitlists slightly shorter. Started over. Clean sheet of paper. 2025 tools. 2025 thinking.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Interested in policy, advocacy, and population health to benefit 850 million people with kidney disease? Stop by the meet up at #KidneyWk.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🙏to Northwestern Medicine Transplant for showing the inspiring transplant documentary ABUNDANT. Nephrology and transplant programs - consider doing the same. abundantmovie.com

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Home - Abundant Movie

https://player.vimeo.com/video/1048377579?autoplay=1&loop=1&autopause=0&background=0

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Going to Kidney Week and interested in policy, advocacy, and population health? Join us at the meet up at #KidneyWK!

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Kidney disease isn't keeping me down. Explored Toronto running a half marathon.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Happy Diwali to everyone who is celebrating!

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Interested in policy, advocacy, and population health? Join us at the meet up at #KidneyWK!

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Hello #NephJC. Mostly lurking tonight. I do keep a low carb, moderate protein diet. I like what it does for my weight and blood sugar levels.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Hi #NephJC. If you or anyone you know are going to Kidney Week and have an interest in policy, advocacy, or population health, consider dropping by the meet-up below.

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Josh Waitzman @jwaitz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Loved watching @kidneyrebel.bsky.social grand rounds at @nu-nephrology.bsky.social!! Thank you for the PKD mega blocks shout out #nephjc (1), happy to be at the right overlap in my Venn diagram (2), and trying to build toward a medical specialty in a hill (3) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTC...

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

At the Chicago Marathon cheering on my daughter as she raises money for PKD research. @pkdfoundation.bsky.social support.pkdcure.org/fundraiser/6...

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Bank of America Chicago Marathon 2025

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Thank you to Orhi Esarte Palomero, PhD. for a tour of his advanced electron microscope lab at @nu-nephrology.bsky.social that is doing pioneering work in visualizing the molecular basis of kidney and other diseases. news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2025/08/12/n...

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Thank you to @nu-nephrology.bsky.social for hosting me at renal grand rounds today. Such a thrill to talk about creating an unrecognizable future for nephrology.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Super excited to give renal grand rounds at @nu-nephrology.bsky.social. If you are interested in watching, DM me and I'll send you the Zoom link.

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Arnold D. @kidneyrebel.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Excited to give Renal Grand Rounds at @nu-nephrology.bsky.social The place where my kidney advocacy all started.

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