Thursday Program

THURSDAY 20th MAY 2004
10.30	Registration Opens
12.00-13.00	LUNCH
13.00-17.00	SATELLITE SESSIONS
	Kings Suite	Auditorium
	ACCESS SEMINAR SPONSORED BY KIMAL Chair: Mick Kumwenda (Glan Clwyd) The State of Vascular Access and a comparison of the UK to other European and North American countries. Hugh Rayner (Heartlands) Surgical Aspects of Access Formation Chris Gibbons (Morriston Approaches to Access Formation in Difficult Cases Keiran Macbride (Edinburgh) Access Monitoring in the Renal Unit Alison Cornall (Churchill) Salvage of the Failed Fistula Alistair Cowie (Hope) Prevention of Sepsis in Haemodialysis Catheters Marcel Weijmer (Amsterdam) Cardiac Output Monitoring in the Renal Unit Wil van der Mark (Utrecht) Summary and Close Ali Bakran (Liverpool)	PRE-DIALYSIS SEMINAR SPONSORED BY ROCHE PRODUCTS LTD 13.00 - 13.30 Identification of CKD: the NeoErica project Dr Donal O’Donoghue, Salford, UK 13.30 - 14.00 Addressing the links between cardiovascular disease and CKD Professor Donald Silverberg, Tel Aviv, Israel 14.00 - 14.30 Key issues in diabetic kidney disease Dr John New 14.30 - 15.00 TEA BREAK 15.00 - 15.30 NeoErica indentifies an increased prevalence of CKD in the elderly, but is it just part of the normal ageing process? Dr Paul Stevens, Canterbury, UK 15.30 - 16.15 Keynote address: How do we manage the CKD tidal wave? Professor Maurice Laville, Lyon 16.15 – 17.00 Panel Discussion (All)
18.00-19.30	CONFERENCE OPENING AUDITORIUM Steve Smith, President of the British Renal Society Research Initiatives Update – Ken Farrington, Chair of the BRS Research Initiatives Group NSF Update – Donal O’Donoghue, Immediate Past-President of the British Renal Society BRS Awards (except poster scholarships) Keynote Speaker: Mike Stroud, OBE
19.30-21.30	Exhibition Opening & Welcome Reception & Posters