2013 International Peds Kidney Fellows Conference

Welcome remarks by:

Maria Ferris, MD, MPH, PhD, Nathan Levin, MD, PhD, Mary Carter, PhD & John Mahan, MD

Blog of the 2013 meeting: http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/nephrologyondemand/?p=8805

Sponsors:

Get to Know Our Speakers and Staff (in alphabetical order)

Ingrid Adelsberger, CMP. Ms. Adelsberger is RRI’s Corporate Meeting Planner since 2005. She studied Hospitality and Tourism Management in Vienna prior to working in the United States. She has experience in managing both domestic and international scientific meetings from all aspects including continuing medical education compliance as well as organizing social and corporate events. She is a co-applicant on the RRI Conference NIH Grant.

Kenneth Andreoni, MD: Dr. Andreoni is a pediatric and adult abdominal transplant surgeon at University of Florida & Shands Hospital. He is the current surgical director of kidney and pancreas transplantation, and participates in liver transplantation. His faculty academic appointments were previously at The Ohio State University, the Universities of North Carolina and Arizona. He completed a transplant surgical fellowship at The Ohio State University, general surgery training and transplant research fellowship at Johns Hopkins University Hospital and medical school training at Yale School of Medicine. Ken has been involved in UNOS National Committees for over ten years, and is currently the President-Elect of UNOS. He has basic science publications in cytomegalovirus drug therapies, ischemia-reperfusion injury and many clinical transplant publications. Ken was the founding chair of the UNOS Kidney Paired Donation, prior chair of the Kidney Committee and involved in the development of a deceased kidney graft Donor Risk Index. Ken is currently collaborating with Dr. Ferris’ pediatric transition healthcare research among pediatric kidney transplant recipients, to ensure a successful transition and transfer to adult healthcare.

Kristi Bickford, BA: Ms. Bickford is adolescent and young adult transition coordinator since 2006 and an expert in patient education on disease self-management.

Melvin Bonilla-Felix, MD: Dr. Bonilla-Felix is a professor and chair in the Department of Pediatrics- at the University of Puerto Rico. His area of expertise is in renal physiology and disease/clinical trials. He is an International Pediatric Nephrology Association Counselor.

Timothy Edward Bunchman, MD: Dr. Bunchman is a Professor and division director of Pediatric Nephrology at Virginia Commonwealth University. His professional interest are acute kidney injury, glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome, transplantation, vasculitis and systemic lupus erythematosus. He created the pediatric CRRT Programs and website.

Mary Carter, PhD, MBA, MPH: Dr. Carter is the Research Program Director at the Renal Research Institute. She is responsible for the overall strategic management of the research program with a focus on team building and collaborative research in an international setting. She has been with RRI for 13 years leading the program from inception to its current level of international recognition for innovation, swift decision making and excellence in clinical trial execution. Her oversight includes the annual CKD conference and Dialysis Times. Her leadership in the global arena is exemplified by her work with the Sustainable Kidney Care Foundation, bringing kidney treatment where none exists, where she is the founder and director. With a background in molecular biology, physiology, business and public health, she has the skills to lead this team into future success.

Tejas Desai, MD: Dr. Desai is an assistant professor of Medicine and the associate director of Medicine education at East Carolna University. He is the founder and editor of the teaching website nephrology on demand.

Nicole Fenton, MA, PhD(c): Ms. Fenton is a graduate student of Psychology whose research focuses on transition, disease self-management and adherence, as well as couples therapy.

Maria Ferris, MD, MPH, PhD: Dr. Ferris is the creator of the International Pediatric nephrology Fellows Program. She is an associate professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Ferris has founded the UNC Health Care Transition Program. She is a pediatric nephrologist and epidemiologist who also directs the pediatric Dialysis and Transplant Programs. Her mission is to develop evidence-based health provider and patient tools to measure transition and disease self-management, improving the outcomes of emerging adults with pediatric onset chronic conditions.

Joseph Flynn, MD, MS: Dr. Flynn is a Professor of Pediatrics in the University of Washington School of Medicine and Division Chief and Medical Director of Dialysis at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Flynn completed his pediatric nephrology training at St. Christophers Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, PA, and later received an MS in Clinical Research from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

Keisha Gibson, MD, MPH: Dr. Gibson is an assistant professor of pediatrics and is the director of the pediatric nephrology fellowship program. Dr. Gibson’s primary research interests in lupus nephritis and other glomerular diseases. She is specifically interested in ethnic /socioeconomic disparities and its impact on patient outcomes using an epidemiology-based approach. Additionally, she maintains research interests in the growing epidemic of chronic kidney disease in West Africa.

Debbie Gipson, MD, MSPH: Dr. Gipson is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases Pediatric Nephrology. Dr. Gipson’s clinical interests focus on the treatment of children with nephrotic syndrome, including focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, minimal change nephrotic syndrome, glomerular diseases and chronic kidney disease. Dr. Gipson is the principal investigator and co-investigator for clinical trials and long-term outcome studies for children and adults with nephrotic syndrome. Dr. Gipson’s research team is engaged in understanding the impact kidney disease on brain function and quality of life in children. Dr. Gipson is the Associate Director for the UM Clinical Research Management work group of the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research.

Patrick E. Gipson, MD: Dr. Gipson is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is an adult and pediatric nephrology and a graduate of Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Gipson completed his nephrology and pediatric nephrology training at UNC Chapel Hill. His interests include general nephrology, for adults and children, with special interest in glomerular and inherited disorders.

Peter Kotanko, MDS: Dr. Kotanko is the RRI’s Research Director. His work spans bench science to clinical research to epidemiology to mathematical modeling, protocol design, manuscript preparation and teaching. After spending one year in 2005/6, Dr. Kotanko was recruited to take over the strategic leadership role of RRI’s research in 2010. His background and expertise in physiology and nephrology and 20 years of clinical experience enable him to be the intellectual leader for our scientists and fellows who come to train in clinical research. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Blood Purification and co-author of over 140 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters with 14 patents in the US alone. Prior to joining RRI, he was the Vice Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine in Graz, Austria, from 1997 to 2007. From 1982 to 1989, he worked as an Assistant Professor, first in the Department of Physiology, and subsequently at the University Clinic of Internal Medicine, in Innsbruck, Austria. From 1995-1996 Dr. Kotanko worked at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, UK. Dr. Kotanko’s current teaching appointments are with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and the Medical University in Innsbruck. He has lectured on nephrology, physiology, and mathematical modeling at international Summer Schools.

Nathan Levin MD: Dr. Levin is the Chairman, Research Board of Renal Research Institute and Professor of Clinical Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Levin is the Chair of the Selection Committee for the Lillian Jean Kaplan International Prize for Advancement in the Understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). He is the Co-Founder of Sustainable Kidney Care Foundation and an advisor to the Board of KidneyTel. He is the Principal Investigator of the NIH sponsored study of Frequent Dialysis. Dr. Levin is currently an adjunct Professor at the School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the Honorary Chair, Peking University, in Beijing, China and contributes to the global CKD community in a variety of functions.

John Mahan, MD: Dr. Mahan is a Pediatric Nephrologist and continues to serve as General Pediatric Residency Program Director and Pediatric Fellowship program Director at Nationwide Children’s Hospital/OSU, Columbus, Ohio. As Director of the OSU Center for Education and Scholarship he oversees a team of medical educators devoted to promoting best educational practices enduring contributions to medical education scholarship by the faculty of the OSU College of Medicine. He is the co-director of the International Pediatric Nephrology Fellows Program.

Mara Medeiros, MD, PhD: Dr. Medeiros is a pediatric nephrologist and director of the pediatric transplant program at the “Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez” in Mexico City. She directs the research group.

Carla Nester, MD, MSA: Dr. Nester is an internal medicine and pediatric nephrologist and an assistant professor of pediatrics. Her clinical interest is in both Adult and Pediatric Nephrology and her focus is in diseases that affect the glomerulus of the kidney. Dr. Nester’s current research focuses on complement mediated renal diseases with a special laboratory focus on Dense Deposit Disease (DDD) and Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS).

David Tauer, RN: Nurse Tauer has worked in Neuro ICU, CV Surgical ICU and Recovery Room at The Texas Heart Institute, Houston. This period included acute peritoneal dialysis and use of the first cyclers. With a strong background in the ICU’s was recruited full time in dialysis in 1980. Served as nurse manager in Chronic Dialysis, & then Pediatric Coordinator in Acute Dialysis & Acute & Chronic Pediatric Dialysis, Houston. Simultaneously performed duties on Policy & Procedure Committee, as Biomedical Technician, & as educator for the Houston Area Collaborative Practice Pediatric ICU Program for Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis. Served two years as president of the Gulf Coast Chapter ANNA. Since 2000 in North Carolina, he is the Home Therapies Manager at Carolina Dialysis. Additional activities during this period included a mission to Tanzania, Africa with the Sustainable Kidney Foundation, a two year assignment on the Fresenius Medical Care Nursing Advisory Board and collaborates in the pilot program for KidneyTel and the Beta trials of the Liberty Cycler.

Patrick D. Walker, MD: Dr. Walker has more than 30 years of experience in the interpretation of native kidney and renal allograft biopsies. Before becoming Director of NephroPath, he was the Assistant Chief, and later Chief of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the John L. McClellan Veterans Administration Hospital, and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Walker served on the faculty at Tulane University (1978-91) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (1991-02). He has published more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has written several book chapters including “Glomerular Diseases” and “Major Non-Glomerular Disorders” in Cecil’s: Essentials of Medicine

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Dear Nephrology Fellows and Fellowship Program Directors,

It is our pleasure to announce the 5^th Annual Pediatric Nephrology Senior Fellows Conference on January the 21^st & 22^nd , 2013

in association with the 15^th Annual Renal Research Institute International CKD Conference (Jan. 23^th to 25^th, 2013), in Puerto Rico.

To be eligible for a travel scholarship, pediatric fellows are required to:

a) Agree to a 4-day commitment to attend both: the Pediatric Nephrology Program (traveling on the 21^st during the day to attend the

pediatric program (Jan 22^nd) and the RRI Conference (Jan 23^th-25^th).

b) Obtain a letter confirming fellowship status and endorsement for attendance to both programs by their fellowship program director.

c) Submit an original first author abstract by September 14, 2012 to: renalresearch.com/

(maximum 250 words, independent of title and authors). This abstract could describe one of the following:

1. Original research
2. Illustrative case series
3. Case report with defined contribution to patient care or research directions
4. Continuous quality assurance project (design and/or outcome)

Program Committee: Maria Ferris, MD, MPH, PhD, Peter Kotanko, MD, PhD; Mary Carter, PhD, MBA & John D Mahan, MD

Program directors MUST e-mail a letter of recommendation to Ms. Ingrid Adelsberger at IAdelsberger@rriny.com.

Mandatory attendance to both conferences is required to qualify for a travel/program scholarship.

Details for the main RRI Conference Schedule (Jan 23-25^th) are displayed at the following website: http://www.renalresearch.com