Publication Spotlights
Publication Spotlight: Dr. Blum
![Matthew Blum](/-/media/Files/USRDS/Authors-Images/Matthew-Blum-MD-MHS.jpg)
Interview with Matthew Blum, MD, MHS, Nephrologist and Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, author of Extreme Humid-Heat Exposure and Mortality Among Patients Receiving Dialysis.
Publication Spotlight: Dr. Sandal
![Sandal Shaifali](/-/media/Files/USRDS/Authors-Images/Sandal-Shaifali.jpg)
Interview with Shaifali Sandal, MD, Associate Professor (Clinician Investigator), Department of Medicine, Divisions of Nephrology and Experimental Medicine, McGill University, author of Differences in Racial and Ethnic Disparities Between First and Repeat Kidney Transplantation.
Publication Spotlight: Dr. Le
![Le Dustin](/-/media/Files/USRDS/Authors-Images/Le-Dustin.jpeg)
Interview with Dustin Le, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow (MHS), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, author of Association of Sevelamer Initiation with Gastrointestinal Bleeding Hospitalization in Individuals Requiring Hemodialysis.
Publication Spotlight: Dr. Atta
![Ismail Atta Sherin](/-/media/Files/USRDS/Authors-Images/Ismail-Atta-Sherin.jpg)
Interview with Sherin Ismail Atta, PharmD, MPH-epi, BCPS, BCACP, PhD student, Pharmacoepidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, author of Ondansetron and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death among Individuals Receiving Maintenance Hemodialysis.
Publication Spotlight: Dr. Plantinga
![Laura Plantiga](/-/media/Files/USRDS/Authors-Images/plantingaheadshot1023.jpg)
Interview with Laura Plantinga, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, author of Patient Care Technician Staffing in US Hemodialysis Facilities: An Ecological Study.
Publication Spotlight: Dr. Garcia
![Leonardo Garcia](/-/media/Files/USRDS/Authors-Images/Leonardo-Garcia-102.jpg)
Interview with Leonardo Pozo Garcia, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, author of Dialysis Modality, Transplant Characteristics, and Incident Atrial Fibrillation After Kidney Transplant: An Observational Study Using USRDS Data.
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