by PKD Foundation Staff | Jan 9, 2020 | Advocacy, Awareness
Published Jan. 9, 2020 Written by Alexis Denny, Director of Government Affairs PART ONE OF FOUR The effort to address the kidney health crisis in the U.S. started in July when President Trump issued the Advancing American Kidney Health Executive Order (EO). PKD...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Jan 7, 2020 | Advocacy, Awareness, Education, Positivity, Q and A
Published January 7, 2020 You might say that Lisa Baxter is a woman on a mission. She is an author, actress, advocate, documentarian, volunteer, social worker, and health ambassador. Lisa is always on the lookout for new ways to educate dialysis and PKD patients,...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Nov 21, 2019 | Advocacy
Published November 21, 2019 Written by Alexis Denny, Director of Government Affairs Time flies, and I can’t believe we’re already looking at a year-end recap. Advocacy for PKD Foundation is a huge undertaking and I’m so grateful for our partners, researchers,...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Nov 19, 2019 | Advocacy, Awareness, PKD Foundation News, Research
Published November 21, 2019 Written by Elise Hoover, Director of Research The PKD Foundation (PKDF) has just returned from Kidney Week 2019 in Washington, D.C. The annual scientific meeting hosted by the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) ran Nov. 7–10. This is one...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Sep 24, 2019 | Advocacy
Written by Alexis Denny, Director of Government Affairs Published September 24, 2019 For the last 12 years, PKD research has been eligible to receive funding from a program in the Department of Defense called the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, or...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Aug 27, 2019 | Advocacy, Awareness, Determination
Written by guest contributor Matthew Hallisey Published August 27, 2019 “Get busy living, or get busy dying.” — Ellis Boy “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman) in The Shawshank Redemption (1994) My father Joe suffers from polycystic kidney disease. More...
