Scott Westphal

Packed house for the inaugural Cardio-Renal Noon Conference with our @UNMCkidney colleagues. 🔥 discussions led by @AnureetMalhotra and #ElizabethSauvage. Appreciate @ScottWestphal20's co-championing this effort and looking forward to ongoing collaborations! @CvUnmc

Excellent work by Dr. Julia Dumitrescu with our kidney transplant team (including @mannonmom and @ScottWestphal20) on the evaluation of weight loss interventions in candidates for living kidney donation!!!!

We are thrilled to welcome the newest additions to the UNMC Nephrology team!!! #MatchDay2024

Day 1 of posters for our fellows and residents (@UNMCIMResidency) at #KidneyWk2024!

Great job fellows!!

Congratulations to Dr. Nate Leonardi (@N_Leonardi1), a second-year fellow pursuing kidney transplant, on being named the Provider of the Quarter for the @NebraskaMed Dialysis Unit!!!

ACGME accreditation for transplant #nephrology is the "wrong solution to the wrong problem" 👇🏽 Could not agree more ajkd.org/article/S0272-… @AJKDonline #KidneyTransplant

Happy APP Week!!! Our group of APPs are fantastic, bringing expertise with personalized attention!!!

Check out this article by @bbenes08, Dr. Langewisch, and @ScottWestphal20 on "Kidney Transplant Candidacy: Addressing Common Medical and Psychosocial Barriers to Transplant" in @NKF_NephPros Advances in Kidney Disease and Health this month!!! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

this is a great issue with highly relevant and practical articles. Thanks to all the authors who contributed!

Our annual "Welcome Party" for our new fellows included 🎳and🌮! It was great to celebrate the start of the new academic year with all of our families!

Pretty cool to see Omaha ranked as the #1 city to move to!!! forbes.com/home-improveme…

Happy #GME Professionals Day!!! We are so fortunate to have the wonderful and extremely talented Mackenzie Dehmer as our fellowship coordinator! Thank you for everything you do Mackenzie!!!

Super excited to get the opportunity to work with @kate_wampler & @unmccahp sonography students for simulated experiences using lightly-embalmed cadavers for ultrasound-guided kidney biopsies with our 1st-year fellows (@hkruzeMD) and Dr. Westphal (@ScottWestphal20)!!!

We are so excited to welcome our new fellows to @UNMC_IM!!!

Congrats to Dr. Divya Sood (@sood_divya) on graduating!!! Divya has been such a joy to work with for two years and has been a fantastic member of our team! We are very excited to see her fantastic journey as a general nephrologist with @LLNeph!!!

Congratulations to Dr. Prasanth Ravipati on being awarded the clinical Hirschmann Prize from the @UNMCCOM Class of 2024!!! We are so privileged to have him @UNMC_IM! He is a expert clinician, skilled teacher, and caring mentor who represents excellence in every conceivable way!

With tremendous joy, I share that our patient who received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant was discharged home today after removal of his dialysis access. We hope that this is a first step that will bring hope to many patients waiting for a kidney transplant #xenotransplant

Few things are more fun than a #NephMadness party!!! We enjoyed a lively discussion as we made our selections for this year.

150 attendees 32 posters 26 topical presentations 2 keynotes by Jay Fishman @mgh_transplant A great couple of days networking with staff and colleagues across transplant disciplines ♥️🫁kidney liver.