Our mission is to provide quality up to date information for kidney disease sufferers and thier family members. We provide in-depth information across a wide spectrum of topics, and back that information from input from actual patients, doctors and other medical or industry professionals in order give you the best information for managing or living with the disease. We are NOT medical industry professionals, so we advise anyone to seek professional support for managing your disease. Information provided is sourced from publically available studies, white papers, industry websites, direct medical and industry professionals and actual Chronic Kidney Disease, End Stage Renal Disease (sometimes refered to End Stage KIdney Disease, or Stage 5 Kidney DIsease), dialysis and transplant patients. While we cross reference our sources and vet our contributers, we cannot guarantee that the advice given on this website is 100% up to date, or ideal for your situation. We recommend checking out our Nephrologist page to locate a Specialized Doctor in your area, and that you follow their recommendations and care plan. Likewise we recommend speaking to a Nutritionist in your area that is specialized in CKD/ESRD nutritional support, we maintain an ever expanding list of known providers on our Industruy Professionals page. We accept productive feedback for content suggestions and corrections, and invite people to help provide content. Our posts are fact based on medical journals, scientific truths, and input from our contributors:
Our purpose is to help you find the information you need to get the care and support for the best outcome in managing or supporting those with Chronic Kidney Disease.
Enough about our mission, lets talk about who we are. kidneydiseaseusa.com was established in 2025 by our CTO and Principal Architect Derek Devernoe. He comes with 18 years of technology experience across the majority of technical disciplines. He created most of the material on this website, developed technology to source new and updated information from reputable sources, secures the data herein, writes blog articles and facilitates a local group that supports kidney patients in the New River Valley area of Virgina. He provides his services pro-bono and funds the operation of the website, the local patient groups, and mentors STEM students from the local schools and universities in technology work. More information available on his linkedin profile, and from his contributing technology business the-cloud-pros.com:
We seek to provide accurate information based on medical and scientific fact, while avoiding opinion or bias in our work. We provide these services free to the Kidney Disease community, and will continue follow advancements in the treatment and managing of the disease, and update our content.
Join us on our mission to provide this information free to those seeking answers. We are seeking Doctors, Industry Professionals including Kidney Center Staff, Nurses and Nutritionists, as well as Patients and their family members to contribute via volunteering thier time, or helping us fund the mission. We accept donations via our Help Fund Us Page, and invest 100% of the funds given towards the operation of the website, and coordinating local support group initiatives. Click here for more information.