Transplant nurse practitioner Sonya Lopez reflects on her 30-year career with CHOP and the Pediatric Kidney Transplant and Dialysis Program’s milestone of 500 transplants.

Making kidney-friendly foods at home can be hard when a family has food insecurity. Our Food Opportunities to Improve Outcomes in Dialysis (FOOD) program is here to help.

CHOP credits the milestone in part to its involvement with the National Kidney Registry through a partnership with the Penn Medicine, which provides CHOP access to a large pool of potential living kidney donors.

80 years ago, Stan Kraftsow was treated at CHOP for a life-threatening condition. His gift will give other children full lives.

CHOP Chief Scientific Officer Susan Furth, MD, PhD, and PEDSnet founder Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

CHOP’s Chief Scientific Officer contributed to the organizations guidelines for treating children with chronic kidney disease.

A new study used electronic health record data to identify risk factors associated with kidney function decline in those with pediatric chronic kidney disease.

Our Division of Nephrology continues to grow, with several new team members. See below to meet our new fellows and advanced practice providers.

Meet three new division chiefs and more news and updates from CHOP.

Dr. Sandra Amaral, attending physician in CHOP’s Division of Nephrology and the Kidney Transplant and Dialysis Program, led a study recently published in JAMA that found an association between dialysis facility ownership and access to the waiting list and transplant in pediatric patients with end-stage kidney disease in the United States. The findings were covered in this Kaiser Health News article.