Interim SVP-Chief Medical Officer @PennStHershey Hershey Medical Center | Academic Nephrologist; |Tweets my own views.
Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Joined June 2009
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Grateful to join global leaders at the Global Women’s Leadership Program Workshop during #PSIM2026 in Lahore.
Empowering women in medicine through mentorship, opportunity, and collaboration is how we shape the future of healthcare.
#InternationalWomensDay #WomenInLeadership
@Mumtaz_Patel_1 @KerriBaker20 @jakramaimc @shabnumsarfraz Shehla Javed | Prof Virginia Hood | Somia Iqtadar | Prof Aftab Mohsin
Umar Farooq, MD, MS, MBA retweeted
Presented at #ERA25:
In the CONFIDENCE trial in persons with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes, combination therapy with finerenone and empagliflozin led to a greater reduction in the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio than either drug alone. Full trial results: nej.md/4jEVbbk
@ERAkidney
ALT A graph of the least-squares mean ratio of the change from baseline in the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio in the full analysis population.
MBA with busy clinical work, ongoing research & teaching activities, growing families and advancing careers— the online MBA option at @SmealCollege made it achievable for us. #LifelongLearning #weare @FA_VascularMD @PSUWorldCampus
Faisal Aziz & Umar Farooq began their #PennState Smeal OMBA journey together & crossed the finish line last weekend! As physicians, they sought to better understand the business side of health care to amplify physicians' voices: ow.ly/XSsv50SWehN
@SmealPGP @PSUWorldCampus
GLP1RA is the fourth pillar for renal protection in diabetic kidney diseases after ACE-I/ARB, SGLT2 inhibitors and MRAs. Great to have RCT data to support
#DiabeticKidneyDisease
#CardioRenalProtection
Presented at #ERA24:
FLOW trial: In patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, weekly semaglutide significantly reduced risks of major kidney events, cardiovascular events, and death from any cause while slowing loss of kidney function. nej.md/44U3slP
ALT Graphs showing the first major kidney disease event
Penn State MBA #GlobalImmersion Day 3
@SmealCollege
Visit to @Unilever what did we learn today??
Relevance
Agility
Courage
Big picture thinking
Growth mindset
Purpose Driven
@PennStHershey
With the very best, @NasrGhahramani, our new interim Chair of the Department of Medicine at @Penn State College of Medicine. I feel grateful to have best mentors.
@PennStHershey @PennStIMchiefs @PennStateGME
Umar Farooq, MD, MS, MBA retweeted
Physicians Faisal Aziz and Umar Farooq enrolled in the #PennStateOnlineMBA program to sharpen their business acumen and strengthen the voice of physicians in an increasingly complex industry.
Read more: ow.ly/W1G050Mo5Ts.
#SmealBusinessPartners @umar213 @FA_VascularMD
From #KEMC to @penn_state @SmealCollege, @PennStHershey—it’s over two decade journey of learning of healthcare and business.
@FA_VascularMD magazine.smeal.psu.edu/maste…
Our very best Dr @drirfanagha taught us the ‘Management of Diabetic Kidney Disease in 2022’ in the most comprehensive way possible. @ProjectECHO @PennStateECHO @AhadQayyum5
Umar Farooq, MD, MS, MBA retweeted
Our 9th speaker Umar Farooq, MD, MS, FASN is delivering a lecture on "Xenotransplantation, Wearable and Implantable Bioartificial Kidney—What’s upcoming for patients with kidney disease." at Kidney Updates 2022.
#kidneydisease #kidneytransplant #Hershey #pennstate #kidneyupdates
Umar Farooq, MD, MS, MBA retweeted
Thank you for joining us. Stay tuned for more updates.
#COVID19 #kidneydisease #kidneytransplant #ckd #dialysis #socialworker #physician #nurses #dietitian #Hershey #pennstate #kidneyupdates
Umar Farooq, MD, MS, MBA retweeted
We are about to kickstart the Kidney Updates 2022 - Stay tuned for live updates throughout the day.
#COVID19 #kidneydisease #kidneytransplant #ckd #dialysis #socialworker #physician #nurses #dietitian #Hershey #pennstate #kidneyupdates
I m extremely grateful to the wonderful team behind the ‘KIDNEY UPDATES 2022’
Nasrollah Ghahramani
Robin Asick
Kristy Washinger
Phyllis Hicks
Rebecca Brown
Michelle Carrager
Kim Mentzer
Rajiv Sharma @kidneyupdates22
#KidneyUpdates
Two weeks left. Looking forward to see you at Hotel Hershey in two weeks !!
Listen to Dr. Nasrollah Ghahramani (Chief, Division of Nephrology, PennState Health) welcome all participants to the Kidney Updates 2022. Register now at kidneyupdates.com
#COVID19 #kidneydisease #kidneytransplant #ckd #dialysis #socialworker #physician #nurses #dietitian
Umar Farooq, MD, MS, MBA retweeted
The annual Kidney Updates Conference is happening on August 23, 2022, in Hershey, PA. This year, the meeting has been organized as a hybrid event, with options to attend in person, or virtually. Registrations will open soon.
#kcpa #pennstatehealth #kidneycare #kidneyupdates22
Umar Farooq, MD, MS, MBA retweeted
The KDIGO Glomerular Diseases Guideline Top 10 Takeaways for Clinicians highlight key points from each chapter of the Glomerular Diseases Guideline.
This week, we spotlight the IgA Nephropathy Top 10 Takeaways: bit.ly/KDIGO-IgAN-Top-10-Tak…
See more: kdigo.org/guidelines/gd/
I love presenting at #PSN. Thank you @QayyumAhad for hosting. We missed @drirfanagha and few other friends.
Looking forward to the discussion about #Nephrotic #Syndromes in #Children by the very best Professor Dr. Ali Asghar Lanewala. It would be value added for Nephrologists treating adults and children. @QayyumAhad @drirfanagha
