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  Immune mechanisms involved in CV complications of CKD
  Roberto Pecoits Filho, MD
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  Infectious diseases in CKD, HD and transplantation 
  Warren Kupin, MD
  Management of depression in CKD patients
  Fredric O. Finkelstein, MD
  Discussion
  Drs. Filho, Agarwal, Kupin, and Finkelstein
  Ethnicity and renal failure - an international question
  John Feehally, DM, FRCP
  How is having Chronic Kidney Disease like taking the Boards?
  Klemens Meyer, MD
  The gastro-intestinal system: a void in understanding of uremic toxicity?
  Peter Kotanko, MD
  Phosphate elimination in modalities of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
  Martin Kuhlmann, MD
  Glucose in PD: glucose reduced diet, glucose toxicity
  John Burkart, MD
  Discussion
  Drs. Feehally, Meyer, Kotanko, Kuhlmann, and Burkart
  Does PD modality choice make a difference to peritonitis occurrence?
  Beth Piraino, MD
  Keynote Address : Scaling in human biology relevance for health and disease
  John R. Speakman, PhD
  EPC and EPC vesicles: what is their significance for CKD patients?
  Mark S. Segal, MD


  Potassium control in CKD with specific emphasis on
  ACE/ARB/mineralocorticoid receptor blocker
  Sheldon Hirsch, MD
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  Non-erythropoietic effects of ESAs
  Michael Brines, MD, PhD
  Special considerations for use of anti-hypertensive agents in dialysis patients
  Heleen Josep Redon, MD, PhD, FAHA
  Debate: Calcium balance in dialysis is best managed by changing Dialysate calcium - YES
  Frank Gotch, MD
  Debate: Calcium balance in dialysis is best managed by changing Dialysate calcium - NO
  Sharon M. Moe, MD
  Aldosterone in uremia – beyond blood pressure
  Eberhard Ritz, MD



  Wearable artificial kidney - from holy grail to reality
   Victor Gura, MD
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  Bioartificial kidney - ready for prime time?
  H. David Humes, MD
  Citrate anticoagulation for RRT in acute kidney injury
  Heleen M. Oudemans-van Straaten, MD
  Citrate anticoagulation in chronic hemodialysis
  Stephan Thijssen, MD
  Citrate anticoagulation technical barriers and potential solutions
  Balazs Szamosfalvi, MD
  Using affinity plasmapheresis to markedly improve antiviral drug treatments for hepatitis C:
  A new approach
  Richard H. Tullis, PhD
  Discussion
  Drs. Gura, Humes, Straaten, Thijssen, Szamosfalvi, and Tullis
  Evidence based nephrology - what has been achieved up to now?
  Jonathan C. Craig, MD
  Novel insights into the pathobiology of vascular access -
  Do they translate into improved care?
  Charles J. Diskin, MD
  Debate:
  Are there optimal fistula and catheter rates and should these be mandandated? - YES
  Arif Asif, MD
  Debate:
  Are there optimal fistula and catheter rates and should these be mandandated? - NO
  Richard Amerling, MD
  Discussion
  Drs. Craig, Asif, Amerling, and Diskin

  Welcome
   Peter Kotanko, MD
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  What a nephrologist should understand about a dialysis machine?
  Richard A. Ward, PhD
  How changes in dialysate water quality, sodium, calcium, potassium and bicarbonate
  affect clinical outcomes?
  Nicholas A. Hoenich, PhD
  What is expected of a medical director in the new CMS Conditions of Coverage?
  Peter B. DeOreo, MD
  How bundling will affect hemodialysis?
  Ronald J. Kuerbitz, Esq.
  How should we prescribe dialysis?
  Robert A. Gutman, MD
  Discussion
  Drs. Kotanko, Ward, Hoenich, DeOreo, Kuerbitz, and Gutman
  Keynote Address : Guidelines for the management of kidney transplant recipients
  Bertram L. Kasiske, MD
  Intradialytic hypotension - how to deal with a frequent problem
  Frank van der Sande, MD, PhD
  Gelsolin: biology and clinical correlates
  Po-Shun Lee, MD
  Discussion
  Drs. Sande, Lee, Gotch, and Moe
  How to successfully achieve salt restriction in HD patients; what are the outcomes?
  Ercan Ok, MD
  The cardio-renal substrate leading to sudden death in dialysis patients
  Charles A. Herzog, MD
  Myocardial stunning in CKD - a new aspect of cardiovascular disease
  Chris W. McIntyre, MD




 






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