Best Pediatrics Abstract Award Goes to Cassandra Formeck, MD, at AKI & CRRT 2023 Meeting
April 5, 2023
The Division of Pediatric Nephrology at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh congratulates Cassandra Formeck, MD, MS, assistant professor of Pediatrics, for receiving the 4th Steven R. Alexander Award for Best Pediatric Abstract at the 28th International Conference on Advances in Critical Care Nephrology (AKI & CRRT 2023), which was held March 29-April 1, 2023 in San Diego, California.
Dr. Formeck’s abstract was selected from more than 100 submissions at this year’s conference.
Dr. Formeck’s research abstract deal with the long-term infectious complications after hospital discharge in patients who experience a non-septic acute kidney injury while admitted to the pediatric and cardiac intensive care units.
The research found that “AKI may lead to sustained immunomodulatory effects placing critically ill children at heightened risk for infection following hospital discharge.”
This study is a continuation of Dr. Formeck’s work with this line of investigation. Her most recent publication on the subject occurred in December 2022 in the journal Kidney360.
Read an article about Dr. Formeck’s Kidney360 publication.
The journal also recently published an editorial on Dr. Formeck’s recent paper in March 2023, under the title “Sepsis and AKI: A Two-Way Street.” The full text of the editorial is available on the Kidney360 website.
Learn more about Dr. Formeck and her research.
