BRS - British Renal Society

Fresenius Medical Care
The CALMAG study was a 24 week randomised controlled investigator-masked, parallel group multi-centre study performed in 5 European Countries

Daiichi - Sankyo Ltd
Prevention versus treatment of renal disease in the hypertensive diabetic patient: Are we doing enough?

Gambro Lundia AB
The clinical utility of High Cut-Off Haemodialysis

Chair: Dr David Goldsmith

Calcium Acetate plus Magnesium Carbonate in Controlling Phosphate Presented by Dr Adrian Covic, President of the Romanian Society of Nephrology.

Guest Speaker: Paul Cockwell, Consultant Nephrologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

09:00 - 10:00 - Conference Opening

Auditorium

Conference Opening

Chair: Jane Macdonald and Peter Mathieson

Driving up quality while encouraging innovation
Donal O'Donoghue - National Clinical Director for Kidney Care, Department of Health Abstract
Improving safety in the dialysis unit: the importance of infection
Richard Fluck - Consultant Nephrologist, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Winner of the 2009 Patient Safety Award
Bringing the benefits of Home Haemodialysis home
Sandip Mitra - Consultant Nephrologist, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Winner of the 2009 BJRM Innovation in Renal Medicine Award

10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee & Exhibition

10:30 - 12:00 -

Auditorium

Charter Suite 3 - 5

Central Meeting Rooms 5, 6 & 7

Central Meeting Rooms 3 & 4

Charter A

CPD Session: Vascular Access Guidelines

Overt & Covert Psychiatric Illness in Kidney Disease

Genetics

Obesity and Metabolism

Cardiovascular

Chair: David Wheeler

Chair: Jenny Latchford and Ken Farrington

Chair: Albert Ong

Chair: Bryan Conway and Louise Wells

Chair: Charlie Ferro

How do we implement the recommendations of the RA vascular access guideline?
Richard Fluck - Consultant Nephrologist, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
How does ERPB propose that vascular access is improved in Europe?
Raymond Vanholder - Professor and Clinical Head of Nephrology, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium Abstract
How does Aberdeen achieve its low use of central venous lines for vascular access?
Nick Fluck - Consultant Nephrologist/Medical Lead NHS Grampian Acute Sector, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

Recognizing and treating common patterns of mental illness in dialysis patients
Stephen Potts - Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Lead, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
O1 Depression independently predicts short-term survival in incident dialysis patients
Joseph Chilcot - Research Fellow, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust Abstract
02 An Investigation of the Support Needs and Experiences of Young Adults with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) using Renal Services
Majella McFadden - Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University Abstract

Genetic Screening – where should we be? How to organise services for people with genetic diseases
Richard Sandford - University Reader in Renal Genetics and Honorary Consultant in Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge Abstract
Polycystic Kidney Disease – gene discovery to treatment
Peter Harris - Professor Biochemistry/Molecular Biology and Medicine, Mayo Clinic USA
Genetic Tubular Diseases and beyond
Robert Kleta - Professor and Potter Chair of Nephrology, University College London

Mechanisms Linking obesity with Cardiovascular risk factors and the role of 11β-HSDs
Brian Walker - Professor of Endocrinology, University of Edinburgh Abstract
O3 Blood Pressure and Renal Cytokines improve after Bariatric Surgery
Sukhpreet Singh Dubb - Medical Student, Imperial College London Abstract
O4 Central fat distribution is more closely related with key risk factors than elevated BMI in patients with CKD stage 3
Philip Evans - Research Registrar, Royal Derby Hospital Abstract
Obesity and CKD
Bryan Conway - Consultant Nephrologist, University of Edinburgh

Lessons from Lolipop
Jaspal Kooner - Professor of Clinical Cardiology & Consultant Cardiologist, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London
O5 Reduced cardiac high energy phosphate metabolism in patients with uraemic cardiomyopathy: a phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy pilot study
Rajan Patel - Clinical Research Fellow, University of Glasgow Abstract
O6 Chronic Kidney Disease is an Independent Predictor of Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmia in Heart Failure Patients with Primary Prevention Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices
Sanjeev Kumar - Renal SpR, University College London Centre for Nephrology Abstract
O7 Elevated Free Pregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein-A is not Associated with Recurrent Haemodialysis-induced Ischaemic Cardiac Injury
Helen Jefferies - Research Registrar, Royal Derby Hospital Abstract
O8 Global Longitudinal Strain and Chamber Stiffness Correlate with Plasma Volume in Chronic Kidney Disease
Kay Tan - Research Fellow, Keele University Abstract

12:00 - 13:00 - Moderated Poster Session 1

13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch & Exhibition

14:00 - 15:30 - RA 60th Anniversary Programme

Auditorium

RA 60th Anniversary

Chair: Peter Mathieson and John Feehally

Introduction – Where have we come from? Where have we got to?
John Feehally - Professor of Renal Medicine, The John Walls Renal Unit, Leicester General Hospital 14.00
Reflux Nephropathy and other developmental disorders of the renal tract
Adrian Woolf - Chair of Paediatric Science, Regenerative Medicine Research Group, University of Manchester 14.15 Abstract
Anti-GBM Disease and Systemic Vasculitis
Charles Pusey - Professor of Medicine, Imperial College, London 14.45 Abstract
Glomerular Structure & Function
Steve Harper - Consultant Nephrologist, The Richard Bright Renal Unit, Southmead Hospital, Bristol 15.15

15:45 - 16:15 - Coffee & Exhibition

16:15 - 18:00 - RA 60th Anniversary Programme

Auditorium

RA 60th Anniversary Programme

Chair: Peter Mathieson and John Feehally

Erythropoietin
Chris Winearls - Consultant Nephrologist, The Churchill Hospital, Oxford 16.15
Transplantation
Aisling Courtney - Consultant Nephrologist and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Regional Nephrology Unit, Belfast City Hospital 16.45
Dialysis
Terry Feest - Honorary Member of the Renal Association 17.15 Abstract
Conclusion - And where are we going?
Peter Mathieson - Professor of Medicine, Dean Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bristol 17.45

20:00 - - Celebratory Dinner

The Monastery in Gorton

Dinner to celebrate 60 years: hosted by Renal Association Presidents - past, present and future.
Dinner to be held at the Monastery in Gorton - an architectural masterpiece designed by Pugin in 1863

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