Please review these orientation documents and educational resources. The bottom of this page links to educational websites, podcasts, videos, and national guidelines/organizations. Please email Dr. Hocker (hockern@ohsu.edu) for suggestions or concerns.

• VA & UH Renal Orientation OneDrive Documents - Orientation Document, Educational Resources Overall File

• UH Renal Orientation Document (updated 6/15/26)

• VA Renal Orientation Document (updated 6/15/26)

• Educational Websites/Resources Overall File

• General Reading List (papers)

• VA Inpatient Notes PPT (updated 5/12/25)

• VA Inpatient Encounter Completion PDF

• Approach to Hypertension hand out

• HTN short review template

Acute Kidney Injury, Renal Physiology, and Dialysis/CRRT

• AKI Review (JAMA, 2003)

• AKI handout - Joel Topf, MD (“Kidney Boy”)

• CJASN: Renal Physiology Series (comprehensive physiology review)

• Experimental Sodium Chloride Deficiency in Man (1935, linking sodium balance and volume control)

• Uremia Physiology (NEJM, 2007)

• Hemodialysis Review (NEJM, 2010)

• Peritoneal Dialysis Review (NEJM, 2021)

• CRRT for AKI Initial Review (NEJM, 2012)

• CRRT Contemporary Review (CJASN, 2023)

• Indications and Timing of Initiation of KRT for AKI (CJASN, 2023)

Diuretics, CHF, and Cardiorenal Syndromes

• Dr. Ellison-Diuretic Treatment in Heart Failure (NEJM, 2017)

• HFpEF with Obesity Phenotype (JACC, 2016)

Acid Base/Electrolytes

• Burton Rose Clinical Disorders of Acid-Base and Electrolyte Physiology Review

• Acid-Base Disorders in the Critically Ill Patient (CJASN, 2023)

• Dr. Anderson’s Acid-Base Handout

• Hyponatremia Presentation - Joel Topf, MD (“Kidney Boy”)

• KDIGO Controversies Conference on Potassium (KI, 2020)

• KDIGO: Acute Hyperkalemia Management (EJEM, 2020)

Nephrotic/Nephritic Syndromes

• Older Adults with Nephrosi (CJASN, 2012)

• CJASN: Glomerular Diseases (comprehensive review)

• Hematuria in Adults (NEJM, 2021)

Specific AKI/CKD Pathologies

• Diagnosis of MGRS (KI, 2015)

• MGRS Review (NEJM, 2021)

Chronic Kidney Disease

• CKD Management in PCP Setting (AJM, 2016)

• CKD, In the Clinic (Annals of IM, 2015)

• KDIGO: CKD and Diabetes Guideline Executive Summary (KI, 2020)

• SGLT2 Inhibition for CKD and Cardiovascular Disease in Type 2 Diabetes (Diabetes, 2021)

• Optimizing Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibitor Use in CKD (CJASN, 2021)

Hypertension

• Recognition and Management of Resistant Hypertension (CJASN, 2017)

• Dr. Ellison-Salt Handling and BP (NEJM, 2021)