Michelle Rheault, MD

Too soon, Seth.

Want to learn more about pediatric obesity treatment? This virtual CME offering from the UMN Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine is for you!
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✨It's that time of the year again, to nominate the most deserving people in our community for #NephJCKidneys award

👇Here's a reminder of previous winners

📌You can nominate worthy individuals/ initiatives by using the hashtag or by using the form
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Urine microalbumin getting Super Bowl star treatment with Sofia Vergara and Octavia Spencer.

This is every transplant physician’s nightmare right now.

TRPC6 inhibition for the treatment of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: a randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial of BI 764198 BI 764198 lowered proteinuria and was well tolerated by participants in this trial. This is the first evidence of efficacy with a podocyte-targeted therapy in FSGS. Larger randomised controlled trials...

moving on from IgAN to FSGS: BI 764198 a TRPC6 inhibitor reduces proteinuria in an N = 67 phase 2 RCT

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
in @thelancet.com

#NephSky

Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

My dumpster fire zen garden.

Department head is still middle management.

2025 AJKD Editors' Choice Award winning article: Genetic Characterization of Kidney Failure of Unknown Etiology in Spain: Findings From the GENSEN Study

bit.ly/3WeEZ72

#VisualAbstract

This is one of the most powerful and heartbreaking things I have seen. These kids are hurting. Immigration enforcement has forever changed their childhood. We must protect children from policies that harm them, their families and the communities they live in. Children deserve safety and compassion.

FF 89 Top Stories of 2025 — NephJC I know 2026 feels like it ihas been here for months, but only a few weeks ago we were celebrating the nephrology accomplishments of 2025. The New Filtrate came together to review the year.

#TopNephrology stories of 2025

the podcast is out: www.nephjc.com/freelyfilter...

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To say it took a while is an understatement, because #NephJC has been around for 11 years (and still counting)...

🥁 We opened an Instagram account, so if you're around, can follow and interact 👣💞

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a man in a suit and tie is holding a gun and saying i think i need a do-over ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a gun and saying i think i need a do-over

Tell me five classes you took in college:

Biology
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Calculus
Physics

Kids these days.

The Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, the Minnesota Reformer, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Sahan Journal, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement: “We strongly condemn the arrest of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, as well as any attempt to intimidate members of the press. The First Amendment recognizes the press as holding a distinct and protected role in our democracy. In America, we do not arrest journalists for doing their jobs. The Minnesota journalism community stands united in defense of press freedom and the essential role reporting plays in holding power to account.”

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

Heartbreaking. 💔

Correspondence “When our patients go without medical care, the harm is not theoretical. It is measurable. Fear doesn’t just keep people away from clinics and EDs, it pushes patients into crisis.” “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, M.D., for Minnesota Physician Voices

Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.

Read “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, MD, for Minnesota Physician Voices: nej.md/4akke1G

Being department head so far is:
75% attending meetings
15% answering emails
9% spreadsheets
and 1% asking what all the acronyms mean.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

‘Popping up by the hour’: Bike rides to honor Alex Pretti going global Angry Catfish bike shop organized a ride this Saturday and encouraged others to roll, too. Hundreds are likely.

More than 100 bike rides honoring Alex Pretti have been organized around the globe since a Minneapolis bike shop Angry Catfish’s call to action.

This Saturday's “unity” ride will start at Washburn Fair Oaks Park in Minneapolis at 1 p.m. Pretti was a cyclist and a customer at Angry Catfish.

Take some time to read this and make a public comment if you feel compelled.

This made me cry. I love Minneapolis so hard.

Count me in!

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

How Neighbors Transformed a Brunch Spot Into a Field Hospital After ICE Assaulted Eat Street - Racket On Saturday, restaurants and businesses all along Nicollet Avenue opened their doors for protesters and mourners.

A first-person account from the Copper Hen's restaurant and ad-hoc field hospital, where volunteer medics helped tear gassed protesters as staffers ran around with cinnamon buns and coffee orders.

‘He was only helping’: Witness accounts of shooting shared in bid to get ICE restrictions reinstated A pediatrician at the scene said they saw no agents performing CPR.

‘He was only helping’:
Witness accounts of shooting shared
A pediatrician at the scene said they saw no agents performing CPR.
www.startribune.com/he-was-only-...

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment

"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.

At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Talking to Children about ICE Raids and Related Events compiled by Dr. Katie Lingras at UMN Medical School docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Live: Man shot by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says
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