Tuesday April 12, 2011

Plenaries

West Exhibit Hall A

09:30 - 11:15
Presiding:   Rodriguez-Iturbe, Feehally, Tonelli, Johnson

ISN Roscoe Robinson Award Presentation
Meguid El-Nahas

09:55 – 10:25: Plenary Lecture:

Rare Renal Diseases: Bedside to Bench and Back
Fiona Karet

10:35 – 11:00: Special Lecture:
Two thousand years of nephrology history: Ten enduring scientific landmarks
Leon Fine

Theme I.    Fluid and electrolytes, tubular transport 

Rooms 118-120

Session 1
08:00 – 09:15

New Aspects of the Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone system
Chairs: Tom Coffman (USA) and Toshiro Fujita (Japan)

08:00-08:25: The prorenin receptor and its function(s)
Genevieve Nguyen (France)

08:25-08:50:  Renin signaling and function
Armin Kurtz (Germany)

08:50-09:15: Aldosterone dependent and independent regulation of renal salt and potassium homeostasis
Johannes Loffing (Switzerland)

Theme II. Heredity disorders, development, pregnancy

Rooms 220, 222

Session 1
08:00 – 09:15

Pregnancy and renal disease: Predisposition, Management and Outcomes
Chairs: Ananth Karumanchi (USA) and) Mark Brown (Australia)

08:00-08:25:  Fetal kidney programming after exposure to the hypertensive pre-eclamptic environment: long-term consequences 
Karen Moritz (Australia)

08:25-08:50:  Hemodialysis in Pregnancy: Rationale for the correct delivery of dialysis
Sai Subhodhini Reddy (USA)

08:50-09:15:  Pregnancy outcome in renal transplant patients: lessons from around the globe
Vicki Levidiotis (New Zealand)

Theme III. Glomerular Diseases and Infectious Diseases of the Kidney

Room 211-214

Session 1
08:00 – 09:15

IgA Nephropathy
Chairs: Loreto Gesualdo (Italy) and Jonathan Barratt (UK)

08:00-08:25: The role of IgA Glycosylation
Jan Novak (USA)

08:25-08:50:  IgAN pathogenesis: what happens after glomerular IgA deposition?  
Renato Monteiro (France)

08:50-09:15:  KDIGO guidelines on treatment
Philip Li (Hong Kong)

Theme IV. Acute Kidney Injury

West Ballroom D 

Session 1
08:00 – 09:15

Cell Based therapy for AKI
Chair: Michael Goligorsky (USA), Ton Rabelink (Netherlands)

08:00-08:25: Stem Cells in the treatment of AKI
Christof Westenfelder (USA)

08:25-08:50: Hemeoxygenase-1 and Cell Based Therapy for AKI
IJeremy Hughes (UK)

08:50-09:15: T regulatory Cells in kidney repair following AKI
Hamid Rabb (USA)

Theme V: Chronic Kidney Disease: Pathogenesis, Epidemiology, Prevention, Consequences

West Ballroom B  

Session 1
08:00 – 09:15

New Insights into Pathogenesis and Treatment of CKD
Chairs: Kamil Serdengecti (Turkey) and Duk-Hee Kang (Korea)

08:00-08:25: Role of acidosis and use of bicarbonate
Muhammad M Yaqoob (UK)

08:25-08:50: Potential role of uric acid
Jose Lu?o (Spain)

08:50-09:15:  Novel antifibrotic agents
Christos Chatziantoniou (France)

Theme VI. Hypertension, Diabetes, and Vascular Disease

West Ballroom C 

Session 1
08:00 – 09:15

Diabetic Nephropathy: Update
Chairs: Ray Harris (USA) and Sung Kyu Ha (Korea)

08:00-08:25: Preventing and Treating Renal Progression
Hans- Henrik Parving (Denmark)

08:25-08:50: Cardiac Complications associated with Diabetes
Katherine Tuttle (USA)

08:50-09:15: New Therapies in Diabetic Nephropathy
Julia Lewis (USA)

Theme VII. End Stage Renal Disease

West Ballroom A  

Session 1
08:00 – 09:15

Nutrition in Dialysis Patients
Chairs: Nathan Levin (USA) and Joel Kopple (USA)

08:00-08:25: On protein degradation, metabolic acidosis and longterm outcomes
William Mitch (USA)

08:25-08:50: Protein and Calorie Supplementation: Is it helpful?
Alp Ikizler (Turkey-USA)

08:50-09:15: What are the hidden sources of phosphate in the diet?
Joao Frazao (Portugal) 

Theme VIII. Transplantation   

Rooms 109-110

Session 1
08:00 – 09:15

Immune Monitoring after Transplantation
Chairs: Suhnggwon Kim (Korea) and Phuong-Thu T Pham (Vietnam/USA)

08:00-08:25: Non-invasive diagnosis of rejection: urinary cell and peripheral blood cell mRNA profiles
Manikkam Suthanthiran (USA)

08:25-08:50: HLA antibody monitoring
Gerhardt Opelz (Germany)

08:50-09:15: Protocol biopsies are still the best 
David Rush (Argentina/Canada)

CNE Theme IX

Rooms 301 and 305

Session 1
08:00 – 09:15

Cardiovascular Disease and CKD
Chairs:  Sydney Tang (China) and Markus Ketteler (Germany)

08:00-08:25: The pathogenesis and prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in CKD
Patrick Parfrey (Canada)

08:25-08:50: Sympathetic over activity in CKD
Eberhard Ritz (Germany)

08:50-09:15: Cardiovascular workup of the potential kidney transplant recipient.
John Gill (Canada)

Session 2
08:00 – 09:15


Hemodialysis
Chairs: Jean Ethier (Canada) and Juan Manuel Fernandez Cean (Uruguay)

08:00-08:25: How to start a home dialysis program?
Chris Chan (Canada)

08:25-08:50: Central Venous Catheter infections
Sharan Dogra (Australia)

08:50-09:15: Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study update re: vascular access. Richard Fluck (UK)