Mission, Project Overview and 2024 Leadership
eGFR Toolkit Mission
To promote national implementation of the race-free eGFR equation in the screening, early detection, and management of kidney diseases.
Project Overview
The focus of this project is to create an implementation toolkit for health care professionals (e.g., general practitioners, endocrinologists, cardiologists) caring for people at risk and with kidney diseases.
The eGFR toolkit will:
- Foster the adoption and use of the revised eGFR that no longer has a race modifier.
- Promote screening, early detection, and management of kidney diseases.
- Promote health equality in kidney health and medicine.
ASN and the eGFR Steering Committee will:
- Conduct a needs assessment through a Roundtable discussion.
- Develop educational materials to improve the understanding and use of the revised eGFR calculation.
- Disseminate tools and communicate their importance to health care professionals.
Diagnostic Excellence: eGFR Toolkit Steering Committee
Chair
- Crystal A. Gadegbeku MD, FASN Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Members
- Cynthia Delgado MD, FASN Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- Raquel C. Greer MD NIH/NIDDK
- Vanessa Grubbs MD, MPH West Oakland Health
- Andrew S. Levey MD Tufts Medical Center
- Stacey Jolly MD Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Cleveland Clinic
- M.J. Lewis National Kidney Foundation
- Suzanne M. Norby MD, FASN University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
- John Sperati MD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Curtis Warfield MS KHI Patient and Family Partnership Council Patient Advocate
Staff Project Manager
- Christina Silva BSN, RN
