Annual Dialysis Conference
Program

Monday, March 8, 2010

The symbol to the left of each session title indicates its relevance to hemodialysis , peritoneal dialysis , or both . [#] after the time denotes the session number.

Continental Breakfast - Exhibit Hall
7:00am

Slide Forum I: Clinical Experiences
8:00 - 10:00 • {405}

Slide Forum II: Home Hemodialysis
8:00 - 10:00 • {406}

Slide Forum III: Anatomy, Physiology, Kinetics and Adequacy
8:00 - 10:00 • {407}

Slide Forum IV: Anemia, Metabolism, and Nutrition
8:00 - 10:00 • {408}

Slide Forum V: Quality Improvement and Education
8:00 - 10:00 • {409}

Slide Forum VI: Access
10:45am - 12:45pm • {503}

Slide Forum VII: Acute Renal Failure and Dialysis Systems
10:45am - 12:15pm • {504}

Slide Forum VIII: Miscellaneous Topics
10:45am - 12:00pm • {505}

Slide Forum IX: Calcium and Phosphorous Metabolism
10:45am - 12:15pm • {506}

Slide Forum X: Nursing
10:45am - 12:15pm • {507}

Slide Forum XI: Infection and Inflammation
8:00am - 12:00pm • {440}

Slide Forum XII: Miscellaneous Topics
8:00am - 12:00pm • {441}

Slide Forum XIII: Clinical Experiences
8:00am - 12:00pm • {442} .

Fellows’ Forum - Joanne Bargman, MD,
Dimitrios Oreopoulos, MD, Presiding
8:00 - 10:00am • {400}

. Nephrology Nursing IIII
Shirley Farrah, PhD, RN, Presiding
8:00 - 10:00am • {401}

8:00
Anatomy and Physiology of the Kidney - Barbara Bancroft, MSN, RN
9:00
Assessment of the Patient with CKD - Mary Schira, PhD, RN
10:00
Adjourn

Joint Nutrition and Nursing Workshop: Wound Healing in Dialysis Patients - Karen Wiesen, MS, RD, LD, Presiding
8:00 - 10:00am • {402}

8:00
Physiology of Wound Healing - Mary Schira, PhD, RN
8:30
Feeding to Heal: Nutrition Support for the Dialysis Patient with Wounds - Ann Cotton, MS, RD, LD
9:15
Reducing Pain in Patients with Wounds - Brenda Patrick, MS, RN
9:50
Discussion
10:00
Adjourn

Nursing Management
Eva Juel-Medina, MSN, ARNP, Presiding
8:00 - 10:00am • {403}

8:00
Making Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement Work For You - Deuzimar Kulawik, MS, RN
8:30
Patient/Provider Conflict - Aaron Herold, MSW, LICSW
9:00
Assuring Patient Safety: Tracking HD and PD Adverse
Events - Nancy McAfee, MN, RN
9:25
Electronic Medical Records: Utilizing Technology As a Tool in Managing Dialysis Patients - Geraldine Bojarski, RN
9:55
Discussion
10:00
Adjourn

NURSING KEYNOTE - The Barbara Prowant Lectureship
ALL nurses attending the ADC, both Adults and Pediatrics, are cordially invited to this plenary session with one of America's funniest and most repected nursing speakers

Shirley Farrah, PhD, RN, Presiding
To Your Health: Livin’, Learnin’ and Laughin’ ....Through the Years -
Barbara Bancroft, MSN, RN
10:45am - 12:15pm • {500}
Join Barb Bancroft on a hilarious trip of memories through the last 30 years of nursing and medicine. Barb highlights the many advances in the clinical field as well as the changes in the workplace over the years. She emphasizes the importance of “keeping up” with the ever-changing world of science and technology, the importance of collaborative care with not only health professionals, but also with patients, and the importance of maintaining one’s health while balancing everyone else’s lives. You will leave the seminar with a renewed sense of self and professionalism, not to mention laughing your way to the produce aisle.

Twenty-First Annual Symposium on Pediatric Dialysis, Day 2
Bradley Warady, MD, Presiding
8:00 - 10:00am • {404}

8:00
Understanding Aberrant Psychology in the Dialysis Unit: Abuse, Depression, Staff Safety and Other Critical Concerns - Shari Neul, PhD
8:45
Making Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement Work in the Dialysis Program - Alicia Neu, MD
9:15
When Guidelines Collide: Making Sense of Conflicting Advice in KDIGO and KDOQI Bone - Craig Langman, MD
9:45
Free Communications: Risk Factors Contributing To Arteriopathy in Pediatric Patients on PD - Wen-Yi Thong, MBBS, MRCPCH
10:00
Break

Simultaneous Late Morning Sessions

Basic Science Symposium
Franz Schaefer, MD, Presiding
10:45am-12:15pm • {501}
- 10:45
  Nanotechnology: The New Frontier - Allen Nissenson, MD
- 11:15
  Myocardial Fibrosis - Daljit Holthi, MD
- 11:45
  FGF-23 : It’s Role in Bone Metabolism - Craig Langman, MD
- 12:15
  Luncheon
Pediatric Renal Nutrition Symposium II
Using Standardized Language and the Nutrition Care Process - Donna Secker, PhD, RD, Presiding
Allyn Evans RD, LDN,
Maureen McCarthy, MPH, RD, CSR
10:45am - 12:15pm • {502}

Pediatric Nephrology Luncheon Symposium
Sandra Watkins, MD, Presiding
Update on Billing for Dialysis in the US
Debra Lawson, CPC
12:15 - 1:15pm • {110}

Pediatric Nursing Luncheon
Home Visits: Increase Efficiency, Improve Quality and Create Better Understanding - Helen Currier, BSN, RN
12:15 - 1:15pm • {111}

Pediatric Dietitians’ Roundtable Luncheon
(This luncheon is for dietitians only and is limited to the first 40. If you plan to attend, be sure to sign up on the conference registration form.)
12:15 - 1:15pm • {112}
Topics will include:

Using the Nutrition Care Process Charting Method “ADIME” in Clinics - Nancy Fassinger, PhD, RD
Vitamin D Deficiency - Allyn Evans, RD, LDN
Nutrition for Renal Babies in the NICU - Linda Phelan, RD, CSR, LD
Post-Transpant Nutrition Issues - Kirsten Thompson, MPH, RD, CD

Poster Forum II
Each Poster Forum presents 80-100 abstracts on a variety of dialysis
topics. A dessert reception is held in the poster area immediately
following lunch.

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Annual Dialysis Conference Program

Annual Dialysis Conference
Program