Scientific Programme Highlights

Guest Speakers discussing a range of topics:

Mr Daniel Gallego (Spain)
S 02 Opening Ceremony: The cost of quality and  dialysis sessions when travelling worldwide

Mr  Tony Goovaerts (Belgium)
S 05 PD: Peritoneal Dialysis: Peritoneal testing- What can we learn from it?

Professor Francesco Locatelli MD (Italy)
S 06  Ethical Issues in renal care: Ethical dilemmas in renal aging

Dr John Harty MD (United Kingdom)
S 07 Challenge of multimorbitity: Managing multi-morbidity in haemodialysis patients – a personalized approach

Dr Jasper Boomker, Biologist (The Netherlands)
S 12 Technical-Dialysis Adequacy: NeoKidney – a renewed approach to mobile haemodialysis

Professor Ann Bonner RN (Australia)
S 13 Education: Health literacy and renal healthcare: Why does it matter?
S 31 Renal care for an aging population: Options for older patients with chronic kidney disease

Dr  Hilary Bekker, Psycologist, RN (United Kingdom)
S 14  Psychological, physical & social impact of renal disease: Enabling services to support patients making informed dialysis decisions

Dr Jose Ibeas MD (Spain)
S 15 Safe vascular accesses: Doppler Ultrasound for arteriovenous fistula: A third generation method for first approach

Dr Federico Oppenheimer MD (Spain)
S 16 Transplantation: Changing peoples attitudes to become donors- difficulties and challenges

Mr Leonidas Mourelatos, HD Patient (Greece)
S 17 The patient experience: A 35 year challenging journey

Dr Francisco Maduell MD (Spain)
S 18 Haemodialysis: High-volume online HDF increases survival in haemodialysis             

Mrs Karin Lomholdt RN (Denmark)
S 19 Home dialysis: Home based dialysis in Denmark - Challenges and results

Professor Rita Van Damme – Lombaerts MD (Belgium)
S 20 Paediatric renal care: Growth in children before and after renal transplantation: therapeutic options and results

Dr Ian Walsh MD (United Kingdom)
S 22 Open Forum: Care in Renal Cancer

Dr Eva Segura, Physiotherapist (Spain)
S 23 Improving quality of renal care: Challenges in exercise implementation for patients undergoing haemodialysis

Mrs Fiona Loud (United Kingdom)
S 25 Acute Kidney Injury: Thinking kidneys: the British Kidney Patient Association working collaboratively to reduce acute kidney injury

Professor Martin Kuhlmann MD (Germany)
S 27 Nutrition: Hidden phosphorus in the diet – consequences for CKD patients and the general population

Mrs Cristiana Dente RN (Italy)
S 28 End of life care: What is the best end-of-life care? The experience of Biella HD center, Italy

Mr Josep Mª Gutierrez RN  (Spain)
S 29 CKD prevention & delay: Eldery & CKD. Dialysis for all?
S 30 Diabetes and nephrology: CKD diabetic patients-Same illness different care

Professor Anne Moulton, CANNT President (Canada)
S 32 Closing Ceremony: Let's Not Re-Invent the Wheel: Global Collaboration in Renal Care

Masterclasses & Workshops to be held at the Conference:

S 04  Masterclass Transplantation
•Mrs Itziar Martinez Alpuente (Spain)
The Spanish National Transplant Organization (ONT) model and how to raise the number of renal transplants
•Dr Lluis Pallardo (Spain)
Increasing access of  patients to renal transplantation
•Dr  Federico Oppenheimerr (Spain)
Living donation: how to increase, (modalities) and results
•Dr  Julio Pascual (Spain)
Improving the results of renal transplantation

S 08  Masterclass ''Who pays the Ferryman''? Dialysis dilemmas: costs & ethical questions
•Mr Michel Roden (Belgium)
•Mrs Aase Riemann (The Netherlands)

Masterclass  Writing an abstract for international conferences 
(limited number of attendees)
•Dr Helen Noble (United Kingdom)
•Mr Berislav Poje (Croatia)

Workshop on: Ultrasonography for vascular access in dialysis
(limited number of attendees)
•Mr Ruben Iglesias (Spain)
•Mrs Carolina Rubiella Rubio (Spain)
•Dr Jose Ibeas Lopez (Spain)
•Dr Joaquim Vallespin  Aguado (Spain)

Lunchtime sessions include:

S 09  Patient & carer advisory groups - setting them up and running them. Patient & carer groups – an interactive workshop on engagement in improving care quality
•Mrs Fiona Loud (United Kingdom)
•Dr Helen Noble (United Kingdom)
•Assistant Professor Nicola Thomas (United Kingdom)

S 10 The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) Programme

S11 The Greek Workshop:
•Marios Theodoridis (Greece)
Peritoneal Dialysis basic principles and prescription of different types of modalities (CAPD vs APD)
•Stamatia Bezirgiannidou (Greece)
How to determine peritoneal membrane characteristics (PET test)