Cristina Popa 🦋

It began in 2021, wondering why anyone would pick me for @NSMCInternship. I applied in 2022 and was shocked to be accepted. I’ve grown thanks to many of you (@hswapnil @kidney_boy ), though I still feel like a newcomer. 😊 ✨ 🙏 Grateful to be in this with @brian_rifkin #NephJC

Big congratulations to me 🎉 Grateful to my mentor @TradeWithLilly for introducing me to trading and guiding me every step of the way. Hard work pays off. What had been a long time prayer and dream came together faster than I imagined. Contact CoachSophie if you’re interested.

I’m getting back to watercolor #ISNWCN I forgot how hard it is to just let it do its thing 🌸

🔑 clinical question: Should therapy first target the cause of IgAN or the mechanism of kidney injury? This remains unresolved and likely depends on patient phenotype. 🧵(8) #GlomerularDisease #ISNWCN

In the setting of the alarming rise in worldwide disasters @ISNkidneycare @ASNKidney @ERAkidney are focusing on joint and impactful actions @ISNWCN #ISNWCN great talk by @Abualfaa from @AUB_Lebanon

It was my honor to present the phase 1b trial results of Farabursen in ADPKD at WCN @ISNkidneycare

#ISNWCN Spotlight session now with @NephroSeeker and @divyaa24: perspectives of a senior vs a junior on social media use for practice care. Who speaks with authority online? 🫘Fast feedback from colleagues 🫘Updated information, mostly with sources cited

Straight for the gurus @divyaa24 and @NephroSeeker How to use social media appropriately to improve your practice and career in nephrology #ISNWCN

How to modify immunosuppressive on pregnancy #isnwcn

Its important to differentiate preeclampsia from its close mimics Anticoagulation is crucial even to be continued in post partum period #isnwcn

5/ and the presentation ends up with 3 quotes by Virchow 👉 medicine is social science; population disease arises from normalized harmful environments requiring political solutions #ISNWCN

4/ Addiction-driven industries (food, alcohol, nicotine, gambling, social media) shape behavior and environment, promoting obesity, inactivity, CKD and CVD CKM reflects commercial determinants of health #ISNWCN

A different presentation #ISNWCN CKM syndrome reframes CKD as systemic cardiometabolic disease Progression spans adiposity ➡️metabolic risk/CKD ➡️subclinical CVD ➡️overt CVD Interactions extend beyond kidney–heart to liver, microbiome, inflammation, nutrition, and behavior

4/ Post-hoc SONAR: atrasentan reduced kidney events in women (HR 0.46) but not men (HR 0.83) #ISNWCN Suggests sex-specific efficacy of endothelin blockade in diabetic CKD 📍Reinforces mandatory sex-disaggregated analyses in nephrology trials

@KateIsabelle24 underlining how sex is important for kidney health #ISNWCN #flozins shifted CKD from dialysis inevitability to prevention Sex differences matter: hormonal transitions alter kidney risk and treatment response; women underrepresented historically