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 Joanna Neumann was born and raised in Hong Kong, where she became a registered nurse in 1983. Getting into a healthcare specialty in Hong Kong was highly competitive and very difficult. Most people work 10 to 15 years before receiving an offer to train in a specialty.
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 Joanna was resting after a shift in her second year as a registered nurse when her nursing director called.
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 “She asked if I wanted to start a nephrology program,” Joanna said. “I didn’t even know what nephrology was, but thirty minutes later, I was back in the hospital to start training.”
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 What Joanna discovered was a love and fascination for kidney care.
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 “I once overheard a patient say that no one saw them as a whole person,” she said. “In nephrology, we have to treat the whole person. The kidneys affect the heart. Diabetes and high blood pressure affect the kidneys. Everything is interconnected.”
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 In 1991, Joanna was ready for her next adventure–moving to the US. She got a job with a healthcare company quickly but faced a bit of a learning curve.
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 “In Hong Kong, nursing was very hierarchical. You did what the doctor said. In the U.S., I learned to collaborate with physicians and patients to build care plans together. It was very empowering. I also think it improves the quality of care patients in the U.S. get.”
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 With this new job, Joanna was also able to take on many different roles and continue learning.
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 “I worked in dialysis centers. I was a home dialysis manager, helping people learn home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis,” she said. “I helped develop education, better compliance, policy, and regulatory quality.”
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 Joanna also gave presentations and volunteered with organizations like the National Kidney Foundation.
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 “My very first volunteer event with NKF was KEEP Healthy, a free kidney disease screening program. It was freezing, but people lined up anyway,” she said. “I knew from that moment on I wanted to keep volunteering with NKF.”
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 “Education is critical. Even if they’re not ready to hear it that day, maybe one day they’ll pull out that flyer and say, ‘Let me take a look,” Joanna said. “Every single opportunity counts.”
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 Joanna also loves teaching professionals just as much as patients.
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 Joanna says that NKF’s mission, education, prevention, and patient support align with everything she believes in.
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 “We at NKF do great things,” Joanna said. “I treasure that.”
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Katarzyna Madej

Joanna: Kidney Hero of The Year Nominee

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