HOPE Consortium Publications

White DM, Kimmel PL, Dember LM, Wilkie C, Edwards DP, Williams J, Bernardo L, Quintana N, Cheatle MD, Lash JP, Fischer MJ, Schmidt R, Doorenbos A, Schrauben S, Johansen KL; HOPE Consortium, a member of the HEAL Initiative. Patient Engagement in the Design and Conduct of the HOPE Trial: Addressing Chronic Pain in Hemodialysis Patients. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Aug 18. doi: 10.2215/CJN.0000000866. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40824757.

Charytan DM, Moss AH, Shalak M, Wu W, Dember LM, Hsu JY, Kuzla N, Esserman D, Kalim S, Kimmel PL, Lockwood MB, Miyawaki N, Pellegrino B, Pun PH, Qamhiyeh R, Scherer J, Schrauben S, Weiner DE, Mehrotra R; HOPE Consortium. Fall Risk in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients: A Secondary Analysis of the HOPE Consortium Trial. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Jul 15. doi: 10.2215/CJN.0000000775. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40663732.

Dember LM, Hsu JY, Mehrotra R, Cavanaugh KL, Kalim S, Charytan DM, Fischer MJ, Jhamb M, Johansen KL, Becker WC, Pellegrino B, Eneanya ND, Schrauben SJ, Pun PH, Unruh ML, Morasco BJ, Mehta M, Miyawaki N, Penfield J, Bernardo L, Brintz CE, Cheatle MD, Doorenbos AZ, Heapy AA, Keefe FJ, Krebs EE, Kuzla N, Nigwekar SU, Schmidt RJ, Steel JL, Wetmore JB, White DM, Kimmel PL, Cukor D; HOPE Consortium. Pain Coping Skills Training for Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: The HOPE Consortium Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Feb 1;185(2):197-207. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.7140. Erratum in: JAMA Intern Med. 2025 May 1;185(5):609. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0002. PMID: 39786400; PMCID: PMC11791705.

Steel JL, Brintz CE, Heapy AA, Keefe F, Cheatle MD, Jhamb M, McNeil DW, Shallcross AJ, Kimmel PL, Dember LM, White DM, Williams J, Cukor D. Adapting a pain coping skills training intervention for people with chronic pain receiving maintenance hemodialysis for end stage Kidney disease. J Behav Med. 2025 Apr;48(2):298-307. doi: 10.1007/s10865-024-00534-x. Epub 2024 Dec 3. PMID: 39627496.

Dember LM, Hsu JY, Bernardo L, Cavanaugh KL, Charytan DM, Crowley ST, Cukor D, Doorenbos AZ, Edwards DA, Esserman D, Fischer MJ, Jhamb M, Joffe S, Johansen KL, Kalim S, Keefe FJ, Kimmel PL, Krebs EE, Kuzla N, Mehrotra R, Mishra P, Pellegrino B, Steel JL, Unruh ML, White DM, Yabes JG, Becker WC; HOPE Consortium. The design and baseline characteristics for the HOPE Consortium Trial to reduce pain and opioid use in hemodialysis. Contemp Clin Trials. 2024 Jan;136:107409. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2023.107409. Epub 2023 Dec 10. PMID: 38086444; PMCID: PMC10922728.

Mark B. Lockwood, Michael J. Fischer, Kimberly Silva, Blanca N. Contreras, Guillermo Zamora, Amanda Goldstein, Monya Meinel, Christopher Holden, James Lash, Alana Steffens, Ardith Doorenbos, Acceptability and feasibility of fecal microBIOME and serum metabolite sample collection in people with end-stage kidney disease and pain being treated with HemoDialysis: A pilot study (BIOME-HDp), Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, Volume 29, 2022, 100995, ISSN 2451-8654, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2022.100995.

Brintz CE, Cheatle MD, Dember LM, Heapy AA, Jhamb M, Shallcross AJ, Steel JL, Kimmel PL, Cukor D; HOPE Consortium. Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Opioid Reduction in Patients With Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease. Semin Nephrol. 2021 Jan;41(1):68-81. doi: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2021.02.007. PMID: 33896475.

Kalim S, Lyons KS, Nigwekar SU. Opioids in Hemodialysis Patients. Semin Nephrol. 2021 Jan;41(1):24-32. doi: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2021.02.003. PMID: 33896471; PMCID: PMC8083988.

Tobin, D.G., Lockwood, M.B., Kimmel, P.L. et al. Opioids for chronic pain management in patients with dialysis-dependent kidney failure. Nat Rev Nephrol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41581-021-00484-6

Combs SA, Teixeira JP, Unruh M. Pain Management in Patients With Kidney Disease-A Nephrologist and Dialysis Care Team Responsibility: KDOQI Controversies Series. Kidney Med. 2020 Nov 25;3(1):6-8. doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2020.11.006. PMID: 33605943; PMCID: PMC7873818.

Pellegrino B, Schmidt RJ. Pain Management in Patients With Kidney Disease-Patients Deserve a Prescriber With Specialty Expertise: KDOQI Controversies Series. Kidney Med. 2020 Nov 24;3(1):9-11. doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2020.11.007. PMID: 33605942; PMCID: PMC7873821.

Roy PJ, Weltman M, Dember LM, Liebschutz J, Jhamb M; HOPE Consortium. Pain management in patients with chronic kidney disease and end-stage kidney disease. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2020 Nov;29(6):671-680. doi: 10.1097/MNH.0000000000000646. PMID: 32941189; PMCID: PMC7753951.