Linda Awdishu
@lawdishu.bsky.social
Academic pharmacist, mom, wife, faith + science. Nephrology and transplantation is my jam.
Composite tubular secretion score associated with CV risk. Work by Dr. Alex Bullen at UCSD. @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Composite tubular secretion score associated with CV risk. Work by Dr. Alex Bullen at UCSD. @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social
On my way to Houston for an amazing @asnkidney.bsky.social #kidneywk meeting! I’ll be moderating a session Thursday at 4:30pm on Sepsis Associated AKI: Pathophysiology to Subphenotypes to Treatments in General Assembly B. Don’t miss a terrific lineup of speakers!
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
On my way to Houston for an amazing @asnkidney.bsky.social #kidneywk meeting! I’ll be moderating a session Thursday at 4:30pm on Sepsis Associated AKI: Pathophysiology to Subphenotypes to Treatments in General Assembly B. Don’t miss a terrific lineup of speakers!
I’m very excited to be appointed Department Chair for the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Sciences at @ucsdpharmacy.bsky.social Thank you Dean Brookie Best, VCHS John Carethers and Chancellor Khosla for your support!
August 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’m very excited to be appointed Department Chair for the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Sciences at @ucsdpharmacy.bsky.social Thank you Dean Brookie Best, VCHS John Carethers and Chancellor Khosla for your support!
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Distinguished professor Victor Nizet (@nizet.bsky.social) spoke to @nbcnews.com about the recent CDC study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showing that invasive #strep infections have more than doubled in the U.S. over the past nine years.
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April 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Distinguished professor Victor Nizet (@nizet.bsky.social) spoke to @nbcnews.com about the recent CDC study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showing that invasive #strep infections have more than doubled in the U.S. over the past nine years.
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A new study co-authored by Professor Pieter Dorrestein shows that sending microbes to space may improve #astronaut health—and could inform care in ultra-clean environments on Earth such as hospitals and submarines ➡️ rebrand.ly/85irwwj
#BehindEveryBreakthrough @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social
#BehindEveryBreakthrough @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A new study co-authored by Professor Pieter Dorrestein shows that sending microbes to space may improve #astronaut health—and could inform care in ultra-clean environments on Earth such as hospitals and submarines ➡️ rebrand.ly/85irwwj
#BehindEveryBreakthrough @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social
#BehindEveryBreakthrough @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social
We unexpectedly lost our beloved colleague and division head of pharmaceutical chemistry, Professor Carlo Ballatore. A true gentleman and scholar, we are all grieving this loss. If you are able to help, please consider a donation to help his children and wife.
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Donate to Help us raise money for my children's schooling, organized by Isabella Ballatore
Hello, my name is Juliana Guerra . On April 2nd, 2025 my husband, C… Isabella Ballatore needs your support for Help us raise money for my children's schooling
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April 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We unexpectedly lost our beloved colleague and division head of pharmaceutical chemistry, Professor Carlo Ballatore. A true gentleman and scholar, we are all grieving this loss. If you are able to help, please consider a donation to help his children and wife.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-ra...
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What Pharmacists should know about the new KDIGO guidelines on Chronic Kidney Disease. academic.oup.com/ajhp/advance...
KDIGO 2024 clinical practice guideline on evaluation and management of chronic kidney disease: A primer on what pharmacists need to know
AbstractPurpose. To review the key updates in the 2024 KDIGO clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and management of chronic kidney disease (CKD)
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April 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
What Pharmacists should know about the new KDIGO guidelines on Chronic Kidney Disease. academic.oup.com/ajhp/advance...
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Here you will digest the complex information about dietary hyperoxaluria and learn what an anti-nutrient like oxalate is doing in our salad. Beware of oxalate nephropathy as it can cause or exacerbate chronic kidney disease!
#NephMadness
bit.ly/NM25OxalateOffenders
#NephMadness
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March 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Here you will digest the complex information about dietary hyperoxaluria and learn what an anti-nutrient like oxalate is doing in our salad. Beware of oxalate nephropathy as it can cause or exacerbate chronic kidney disease!
#NephMadness
bit.ly/NM25OxalateOffenders
#NephMadness
bit.ly/NM25OxalateOffenders
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Meet riveting plant villains, from aristolochia to licorice to colchium. Learn why kidneys are a ‘terrific toxin target’ and where to look up the most accurate information about herbal medicines.
#NephMadness
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#NephMadness
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March 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Meet riveting plant villains, from aristolochia to licorice to colchium. Learn why kidneys are a ‘terrific toxin target’ and where to look up the most accurate information about herbal medicines.
#NephMadness
bit.ly/NM25TubularT...
#NephMadness
bit.ly/NM25TubularT...
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#NephMadness 2025: Green House Region
bit.ly/NM25GreenHouse
Teams
- Tubular Toxins
- Oxalate Offenders
Expert: @lawdishu.bsky.social
Writers: Rachel Khan & Ethan Downes
Execs: @kidneywars.bsky.social & Elena Cervantes
bit.ly/NM25GreenHouse
Teams
- Tubular Toxins
- Oxalate Offenders
Expert: @lawdishu.bsky.social
Writers: Rachel Khan & Ethan Downes
Execs: @kidneywars.bsky.social & Elena Cervantes
#NephMadness 2025: Green House Region
Submit your picks! | @NephMadness | @nephmadness.bsky.social | NephMadness 2025 Selection Committee Member: Linda Awdishu @LAwdishu @lawdishu.bsky.social Linda Awdishu is a Professor and Division H…
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March 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#NephMadness 2025: Green House Region
bit.ly/NM25GreenHouse
Teams
- Tubular Toxins
- Oxalate Offenders
Expert: @lawdishu.bsky.social
Writers: Rachel Khan & Ethan Downes
Execs: @kidneywars.bsky.social & Elena Cervantes
bit.ly/NM25GreenHouse
Teams
- Tubular Toxins
- Oxalate Offenders
Expert: @lawdishu.bsky.social
Writers: Rachel Khan & Ethan Downes
Execs: @kidneywars.bsky.social & Elena Cervantes
Dr. Sean Bagshaw discusses the relationship between delirium and aki #aki @crrtonline.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Dr. Sean Bagshaw discusses the relationship between delirium and aki #aki @crrtonline.bsky.social
Let the games begin!
#NephMadness 2025: Green House Region
bit.ly/NM25GreenHouse
Teams
- Tubular Toxins
- Oxalate Offenders
Expert: @lawdishu.bsky.social
Writers: Rachel Khan & Ethan Downes
Execs: @kidneywars.bsky.social & Elena Cervantes
bit.ly/NM25GreenHouse
Teams
- Tubular Toxins
- Oxalate Offenders
Expert: @lawdishu.bsky.social
Writers: Rachel Khan & Ethan Downes
Execs: @kidneywars.bsky.social & Elena Cervantes
#NephMadness 2025: Green House Region
Submit your picks! | @NephMadness | @nephmadness.bsky.social | NephMadness 2025 Selection Committee Member: Linda Awdishu @LAwdishu @lawdishu.bsky.social Linda Awdishu is a Professor and Division H…
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March 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Let the games begin!
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#NephMadness 2025: Green House Region
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Teams
- Tubular Toxins
- Oxalate Offenders
Expert: @lawdishu.bsky.social
Writers: Rachel Khan & Ethan Downes
Execs: @kidneywars.bsky.social & Elena Cervantes
buff.ly/xEPnVQO
Teams
- Tubular Toxins
- Oxalate Offenders
Expert: @lawdishu.bsky.social
Writers: Rachel Khan & Ethan Downes
Execs: @kidneywars.bsky.social & Elena Cervantes
#NephMadness 2025: Green House Region
Submit your picks! | @NephMadness | @nephmadness.bsky.social | NephMadness 2025 Selection Committee Member: Linda Awdishu @LAwdishu @lawdishu.bsky.social Linda Awdishu is a Professor and Division H…
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March 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
#NephMadness 2025: Green House Region
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Teams
- Tubular Toxins
- Oxalate Offenders
Expert: @lawdishu.bsky.social
Writers: Rachel Khan & Ethan Downes
Execs: @kidneywars.bsky.social & Elena Cervantes
buff.ly/xEPnVQO
Teams
- Tubular Toxins
- Oxalate Offenders
Expert: @lawdishu.bsky.social
Writers: Rachel Khan & Ethan Downes
Execs: @kidneywars.bsky.social & Elena Cervantes
For patients on dialysis who develop a DVT or PE, are you using apixaban? Are you employing a loading dose (10 mg bid) and standard dose (5 mg bid) or a reduced dose 2.5 mg bid?
January 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
For patients on dialysis who develop a DVT or PE, are you using apixaban? Are you employing a loading dose (10 mg bid) and standard dose (5 mg bid) or a reduced dose 2.5 mg bid?
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Patient with acute kidney injury following vancomycin treatment for pyelonephritis. Numerous unusual casts (no LC restriction, myo/hemoglobin and chromo negative). EM shows mixture of uromodulin protein and precipitate. C/W vancomycin cast nephropathy. #renalpath #pathsky #nephsky
January 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Patient with acute kidney injury following vancomycin treatment for pyelonephritis. Numerous unusual casts (no LC restriction, myo/hemoglobin and chromo negative). EM shows mixture of uromodulin protein and precipitate. C/W vancomycin cast nephropathy. #renalpath #pathsky #nephsky
I’m presenting on Anticoagulation in CKD. We need to do better studying the PK of high risk drugs in vulnerable dialysis dependent patients. PK studies of <10 patients are not enough for our source of drug exposure data. Hope you can attend. ucsd.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...
44th Annual Advanced Nephrology: Nephrology for the Consultant - UC San Diego Continuing Professional Development - Continuing Education (CE)
UC San Diego Continuing Professional Development, 44th Annual Advanced Nephrology: Nephrology for the Consultant, 1/30/2025 7:00:00 AM - 2/1/2025 11:45:00 AM, The
UC San Diego Advanced Nephrology Conf...
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January 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’m presenting on Anticoagulation in CKD. We need to do better studying the PK of high risk drugs in vulnerable dialysis dependent patients. PK studies of <10 patients are not enough for our source of drug exposure data. Hope you can attend. ucsd.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...
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As promised, @asnpublications.bsky.social is on the platform. Four publications, one account. Please follow for the best in scientific publishing in nephrology!
December 19, 2024 at 7:34 AM
As promised, @asnpublications.bsky.social is on the platform. Four publications, one account. Please follow for the best in scientific publishing in nephrology!
Proud mama alert. My son conducted his first concert at UC Riverside tonight and he’s a material science engineering major. So fun!
November 21, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Proud mama alert. My son conducted his first concert at UC Riverside tonight and he’s a material science engineering major. So fun!
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Here is a second bleetorial about a paper we recently preprinted. Here @shipei-xing.bsky.social wanted to find a solution to be able to re-use data in the public domain with MS1 data only - LC-MS and imaging mass spectrometry data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Annotating full-scan MS data using tandem MS libraries
Full-scan mass spectrometry (MS) data from both liquid chromatography (LC) and MS imaging capture multiple ion forms, including their in-source fragments. Here we leverage such fragments to structural...
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November 19, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Here is a second bleetorial about a paper we recently preprinted. Here @shipei-xing.bsky.social wanted to find a solution to be able to re-use data in the public domain with MS1 data only - LC-MS and imaging mass spectrometry data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ok a third bleetorial or skeetorial of another preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... in this case Nina, our exposome expert, Kine, our expert pharmacist, Corinna, the MS/MS guru, wanted to identify medication exposures from untargeted metabolomics data. Why? - aren’t there good medical records?
Empirically establishing drug exposure records directly from untargeted metabolomics data
Despite extensive efforts, extracting information on medication exposure from clinical records remains challenging. To complement this approach, we developed the tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) based...
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November 20, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Ok a third bleetorial or skeetorial of another preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... in this case Nina, our exposome expert, Kine, our expert pharmacist, Corinna, the MS/MS guru, wanted to identify medication exposures from untargeted metabolomics data. Why? - aren’t there good medical records?
@nkf-professionals.bsky.social workgroup published guidance on the use of eGFR for drug dosing. @fda.gov it’s time to think about creatinine-cystatin C for eGFR and drug dosing. academic.oup.com/ajhp/advance...
Moving forward from Cockcroft-Gault creatinine clearance to race-free estimated glomerular filtration rate to improve medication-related decision-making in adults across healthcare settings: A consens...
AbstractPurpose. The goals of this paper are to (1) provide evidence and expert consensus to support a unified approach to estimating kidney filtration in
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November 19, 2024 at 1:42 AM
@nkf-professionals.bsky.social workgroup published guidance on the use of eGFR for drug dosing. @fda.gov it’s time to think about creatinine-cystatin C for eGFR and drug dosing. academic.oup.com/ajhp/advance...
Morning peeps! Cheers!
November 17, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Morning peeps! Cheers!