Kidney Week 2025 Annual Meeting-Plenary: ASN President's Medal, Robert G. Narins Award, Belding H. Scribner Award, Barbara T. Murphy Award, State-of-the-Art Lectures

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The transcript captures key moments from ASN Kidney Week 2025, highlighting major advances and recognizing leaders shaping the future of kidney care. The opening frames Kidney Week as a global hub for discovery, collaboration, and equitable access, citing progress in clinical trials, evolving standards of care, education, advocacy, regenerative medicine, and innovative dialysis technologies.<br /><br />ASN President Dr. Prabir Roy Chowdhury presents the President’s Medal to Dr. Robert Califf for his influential leadership in clinical and regulatory science and strong support of kidney innovation through efforts like the Kidney Health Initiative and KidneyX. In his remarks, Califf emphasizes rapid biomedical progress alongside worsening U.S. health disparities, calling for cross-specialty collaboration, stronger primary care, integration of digital tools with human care, broader internet access, and engagement on social media to counter misinformation. He also urges attention to public health drivers of chronic disease and societal harms.<br /><br />Lifetime Achievement Awards follow: the Robert G. Narens Award to educator Dr. Biff Palmer; the Belding H. Scribner Award to Dr. Michael Allon for transformative vascular access research that shifted “fistula-first” practice; and the Barbara T. Murphy Award to transplant leader Dr. Michelle Josephson for pioneering programs, mentorship, research, and advocacy.<br /><br />Plenary co-chair Dr. Catherine Tuttle introduces Vertex CEO and former nephrologist Dr. Reshma Kewalramani, who argues nephrology must move from symptom management to therapies targeting disease causes, drawing lessons from oncology, HIV, and cystic fibrosis drug development. She highlights emerging precision-medicine opportunities (e.g., APOL1 disease, IgA nephropathy, PKD) and praises partnerships like KHI.<br /><br />Finally, resilience scholar Prof. Michael Ungar reframes resilience as access to—and negotiation for—resources across personal, social, and systemic levels, not merely individual “grit,” urging structural supports that sustain wellbeing at work and home.

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ASN President's Medal - Robert Califf
Robert G. Narins Award - Biff Palmer
Belding H. Scribner Award - Michael Allon
Barbara T. Murphy Award - Michelle Josephson
State-of-the-Art Lecture "On Kidney Medicine, Drug Development, and Coming Home" - Reshma Kewalramani
State-of-the-Art Lecture "Resilience at Work and at Home: Finding the Rugged Qualities and Collective Resources We Need" - Michael Ungar

Note: Continuing education credits are not being offered for this session.

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Date 11/8/2025

Pathway 1 Other

Session ID 518278

Keywords

ASN Kidney Week 2025

kidney care innovation

clinical trials nephrology

equitable access to care

President’s Medal

Robert Califf

Kidney Health Initiative (KHI)

KidneyX

health disparities United States

digital health tools

vascular access research

precision medicine nephrology

resilience and structural supports