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Programme: Thursday, 20 May 2010
07:30 - - Registration & Coffee
08:30 - 10:00 -
Auditorium Charter Suite 3 - 5 Central Meeting Rooms 5, 6 & 7 Central Meeting Rooms 3 & 4 Charter A
Domiciliary Dialysis – Assisted Therapies
Clinical Research in Kidney Disease
Vitamin D, Progression and Survival
Disease Management Exercise & Rehabilitation
CPC Session
Renal Biopsies 4 cases, including 1 transplant case.
Chair: Caroline Judge and Edwina Brown Chair: Colin Baigent Chair: Jeremy Hughes Chair: Jamie Macdonald Chair: Terry Cook
Setting up Services
John Moran - Corporate Medical Director, Wellbound Inc, Mountain View, California, USA

O44 IL-6, peritoneal solute transport rate and inflammation: results from GLOBAL Mark Lambie, Clinical Research Fellow, Keele University
Mark Lambie - Clinical Research Fellow, Keele University

O45 A Matched Case-Control Study of Risk Factors for developing Encapsulating Sclerosing Peritonitis (EPS) as a complication of Peritoneal Dialysis (PD)
Suzanne Forbes - SpR, Royal London Hospital

O46 A Prospective Crossover Study of Short Daily Home Haemodialysis
Siobhan McManus - Consultant Nephrologist, Western Infirmary, Glasgow

O47 Outcomes in Patients on Home Haemodialysis in England and Wales, 1997-2005
Dorothea Nitsch - Clinical Lecturer, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Getting NIHR Programme Grant funding for clinical kidney research: an insider's view
Fergus Caskey - Consultant Nephrologist, Southmead Hospital, Bristol

Cardio Renal Research Initiative
Phil Kalra - Consultant Nephrologist and Honorary University Professor, Salford Royal Hospital and University of Manchester

Clinical Specialists Groups Update
Neil Turner - Professor of Nephrology, University of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

The launch of RADAR – an interactive resource for learning from paediatric and adult rare diseases
Moin Saleem - Moin Saleem, Professor of Paediatric Renal Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children

Vitamin D and Survival: a critical analysis of the observational literature
Martin Landray - Reader in Epidemiology & Honorary Consultant Physician, University of Oxford

Basic Science
Daniel Zehnder - Associate Professor and Consultant Nephrologist, University of Warwick

O48 Investigating Lymphocyte Function during Tubulointerstitial Injury in the Native Kidney
Victoria Ingham - SpR, Newcastle University Medical School

O49 Myofibroblast Apoptosis During Interstitial Renal Remodelling is Macrophage Independent
Madeleine Vernon - Clinical Fellow, University of Edinburgh

Science/physiology to practical applications
Tom Mercer - Professor of Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation – Physiotherapy, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

O50 Renal Rehabilitation – the exercise and education approach
Sharlene Greenwood, - Lead Physiotherapist in Renal, King's College Hospital, London

O51 Effects of intradialytic weight training exercise on muscle quantity, physical function and quality of life in patients with chronic kidney disease
Danielle Kirkman - PhD Student, Bangor University

O52 Combined walking exercise and alkali therapy in patients with CKD4-5 generates anabolic signals but no net suppression of muscle protein catabolism
Alan Bevington - Lecturer, University of Leicester

Lorna McWilliam - Manchester Royal Infirmary

Carole Angel - Consultant Renal Histopathologist,St James's University Hospital, Leeds

Ian Roberts - John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Clinical Discussant: David Taube - Medical Director, Imperial Health Care, and Professor of Transplant Medicine, Imperial College London

10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee
10:30 - 11:30 - Plenary
Auditorium Charter Suite 3 - 5
Chandos Lecture
Genetic Renal Disease
Chair: Jane Macdonald and Colin Jones Chair: Richard Sandford(tbc) and Robert Kleta(tbc)
Supporting Behaviour Change in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Rob Horne - Professor, and Director of the Centre for Behavioural Medicine, School of Pharmacy, University of London

O53 Local Service Evaluation of psychological distress in a renal population
Philip Molyneux - Clinical Psychologist, North Yorkshire & York PCT

O54 Why do Haemodialysis Patients refuse to have an AV fistula? What patients tell us
Niall Leonard - Consultant Nephrologist, Ulster Hospital

O55 Complement Factor H Related protein 5 (CFHR5) Nephropathy: an endemic cause of renal disease in Cyprus
Daniel Gale - SpR in Renal Medicine, University College London

O56 A novel mutation in SLC4A1 causing distal renal tubular acidosis: enhancing our understanding of AE1 C-terminal targeting signals
Andrew Fry - SpR, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge

O57 Inappropriate expression and activation of ErbB2 in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD): a potential therapeutic target?
Pat Wilson - Professor of Medicine, University College London

O58 Pseudohypokalaemia: a novel clinical phenomenon associated with hereditary spherocytosis due to AE1 mutations
Elizabeth Norgett - Research Associate, Addenbrooke’s Hospital

11:30 - 12:30 - Moderated Poster Session 3, with coffee
12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch & Exhibition, Exhibition closes 13.45
13:30 - 14:45 -
Auditorium Charter Suite 3 - 5 Central Meeting Rooms 5, 6 and 7
De Wardener Lecture
Innovative MDT Working
Transplantation
Chair: John Feehally Chair: Donal O'Donoghue and Sue Shaw Chair: Rob Higgins and Sue Moore
New genetic insights in end-stage renal disease
Barry Freedman - John H Felts III Professor and Chief Section on Nephrology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

O59 Outcomes for patients returning to dialysis after renal transplant failure: An analysis of UK Renal Registry data
Lynsey Webb - Clinical Research Fellow, UK Renal Registry, Southmead Hospital, Bristol

O60 Comparison of NICE and SIGN Recommendations on Measuring Proteinuria
Shona Methven - Clinical Teaching Fellow, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock

O61 Changing clinical practice can lead to significant improvement in control of serum phosphate in a large haemodialysis population
Nicola Ruddock - Senior Specialist Dietician, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

O62 Interactive Model of Peer Support in Young Adults with ESRD: The Starbucks Factor
Daniel Lonsdale - Patient, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital

O63 Management of thrombosed AV fistulae and grafts: Evaluation of a regional service model
Milind Nikam - Junior Doctor, Manchester Royal Infirmary

O64 Mobile Quotidian Home Haemodialysis (HHD): An Outline Business Case (OBC)
Roger Greenwood - Consultant Nephrologist, Lister Hospital, Stevenage

O65 De novo donor specific antibodies are associated with antibody mediated rejection and significant graft loss
Michelle Willicombe - SpR, Imperial College Kidney and Transplant Institute, London

O66 Quantification of antigen-specific T-cell responses to polyoma virus BK following renal transplantation
Aron Chakera - Clinical Lecturer, Churchill Hospital, Oxford

O67 Reactivation of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Renal Transplant Recipients
Aisling O'Riordan - Junior Doctor, King's College Hospital, London

O68 Inflammatory lymphangiogenesis in a rat model of chronic allograft injury
David Vass - Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh

O69 A Non-Erythriopoetic Peptide resolves the Renal Dysfunction and Injury associated with delayed graft function
Nimesh Patel - Post Doctural Fellow, Queen Mary University of London

14:45 - 15:00 - Comfort Break
15:00 - 16:30 -
Auditorium Charter Suite 3 - 5 Central Meeting Rooms 5, 6 & 7 Central Meeting Rooms 3 & 4 Charter A
Green Nephrology
CPD Session
HD Master Class
CPD Session
Medicine for Scientists
Renal Nutrition
Understanding Risk: Influencing Practice
Chair: Charlie Tomson Chair: Mark MacGregor Chair: John Reynolds & David Game Chair: Sue Perry Chair: Rob Lewis
Climate change: why should the UK renal community care
Ian Roberts - Clinical Co-ordinator CRASH Trials, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Update on UK progress
Andrew Connor - Registrar in Renal Medicine, Dorset County Hospital, Green Nephrology Fellow, The Campaign for Greener Healthcare

Waste control/management & water conservation
Nicholas Hoenich - Lecturer and Clinical Scientist, Newcastle. University

O70 The Follow Up of Renal Transplant Recipients by Telephone Consultation: Three Years Experience from a Single UK Renal Unit
Andrew Connor - Green Nephrology Fellow, The Campaign for Greener Healthcare

O71 Salvage of Reject Water: What are the environmental and financial benefits?
Steve Milne - Renal Technical Manager, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Recent developments in Haemodialysis
Roger Greenwood - Consultant Nephrologist, Lister Hospital, Stevenage

Continuous renal replacement therapies -Pitfalls rather than panacea
Andrew Davenport - Consultant Renal Physician, Royal Free & University College Medical School, London

Fistula needling techniques, including buttonhole
Joyce Struthers - Charge Nurse, Belford Renal Unit, Fort William, Inverness-shire

Introduction to symptom signs and basic investigations
Phil Kalra - Consultant Nephrologist, and Honorary University Professor, Salford Royal Hospital and University of Manchester

Cases to illustrate the breadth CKD, AKI and RRT
Phil Kalra - Consultant Nephrologist, and Honorary University Professor, Salford Royal Hospital and Manchester University

Jeremy Levy - Consultant Nephrologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Renal Life: Patient presentation and question/answer session
Dennis Crane MBE - North Region Advocacy Officer for the National Kidney Foundation

Why are we so slow to introduce enteral feeding?
Alan Watson -

Professor of Child Health/Paediatric Nephrology, University Hospitals Nottingham NHS Trust

O72 A Matched Case-Control Study of the Nutritional Indicators and Nutritional Management of Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis
Helen Phadnis - Senior Specialist Renal Dietician,The Royal London Hospital

O73 Malnutrition screening on renal wards: MUST or MST?
Caroline Lawson - Senior Renal Dietician, St Helier Hospital, Carshalton

O74 Nutritional Status of Patients undergoing Surgical Peritonectomy for Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis (EPS)
Rosalind Williams - Renal Dietician, Manchester Royal Infirmary

O75 Micronutrient supplementation in maintenance haemodialysis patients enhances activity of antioxidant enzymes
Twyla Moffitt, - Senior Renal Dietician, Tyrone County Hospital, Northern Ireland

O76 Mortality Risk in Haemodialysis (HD) Patients With Higher Haemoglobin (Hb) Concentration without ESA Treatment in DOPPS: Implications for Registry reporting in the UK
Richard Fluck - Consultant Nephrologist, Royal Derby Hospital

O77 Higher phosphate levels in renal transplant recipients one year post transplant are associated with increased mortality and transplant failure
Kathryn Stevens - Clinical Research Fellow, University of Glasgow

O78 Selective endothelin-A receptor antagonism reduces proteinuria, blood pressure & arterial stiffness in chronic proteinuric kidney disease
Neeraj Dhaun - SpR, University of Edinburgh

O79 Allopurinol improves vascular function in patients with chronic kidney disease
Michelle Kao - Clinical Research Fellow, University of Dundee

O80 CKD in Primary Care: Baseline data from the Renal Risk In Derby (R2ID) Study
Natasha McIntyre - Renal Research Fellow, Royal Derby Hospital

16:30 - 16:45 - Comfort Break
With refreshments outside Charter Suite 3-5 and Charter A
16:45 - 17:45 -
Charter 3-5 Charter A
AKI – Gut & Kidney
What is Bioinformatics?
Chair: Andy Lewington Chair: Neil Turner and Jill Norman
Endotoxin in CKD
Chris McIntyre - Associate Professor, University of Nottingham and Honorary Consultant Nephrologist Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

How renal services interface with Acute Physicians
Mike Jones - Past President of the Society of Acute Medicine. Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

O81 Time is Tubule; Consequences of delay in Acute Kidney Injury referral
Prasad Rajendran - SpR, University Hospital Aintree

An introduction to bioinformatics
Michael Sternberg - Professor, Centre for Bioinformatics, Imperial College London

Databases for life scientists: UniProt, the Renal Gene Ontology Annotation Initiative, and beyond
Rolf Apweiler - Joint Head of the Protein and Nucleotide Data (PANDA) Group, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge

17:45 - - Meeting Closes
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