I am delighted to extend an invitation to the next meeting of the SpR Nephrology Club.

Meeting details:

SpR Club Spring Meeting 2012

The Grand by Thistle, Broad Street, Bristol

Saturday March 3^rd- Sunday March 4^th 2012

The theme of this meeting is “Dialysis: The Good, Bad and the Ugly“, and speakers include Dr Charlie Tomson, Prof Simon Davis, Helen Hurst and Dr Andrew Connor.

There will also be a slot for trainees to present their abstracts.

Please note, there are limited places available for this meeting so, if you wish to ensure attendance, reply to this e-mail, or contact ReMark via the details below. 
The meeting includes overnight accommodation, SpR Club Dinner, lunches and refreshments- and is made possible through a generous grant from our sponsors- Amgen.

Final details on the programme and schedule will be sent out once your attendance is confirmed.

SpR Club meetings are a great way of learning and exchanging new ideas and also great fun socially.
I do hope you will be able to attend.

Yours sincerely

Mark Brady

Chair SpR Committee

Clinical Education Centre, Leicester General Hospital

Saturday 25^th February 2012

Dear Colleague,

We wish to draw to your attention the forthcoming preparatory Course for the Specialty Certificate Exam in Renal Medicine. This will be the forth 1-day revision course organised by Consultants and Senior Specialist Registrars form the North West and East Midlands focussed around MCQ scenarios to highlight areas likely to be tested in the specialty exam.

The course is taught by Consultant Nephrologist speakers from the North West and East Midlands Deaneries and is a non-profit making venture.

We would be grateful if you could pass information about this Course to your StR Colleagues, since not all trainees will be Renal Association members.

For further information on the program and to book onto the course please contact Jane Colbourn (jane.colbourn@uhl-tr.nhs.uk  Tel: 0116 258 8013)

With Best Wishes,

Course Organisers:

Jonathan Barratt (East Midlands)

Mike Venning (North West)

Renal Specialty Certificate Exam Course 

 Saturday February 25^th 2012

Clinical Education Centre, Leicester General Hospital

0830  Registration and coffee

0900  Urinary tract infection, stones & obstruction

0950  APCKD, hereditary nephritis, less common renal conditions

1020  Coffee

1040  Renal vasculitis, SLE, diabetic nephropathy, interstitial nephritis & chronic GN

1130  Haematuria, proteinuria, the nephrotic syndrome & renal disease in pregnancy

1210  Disorders of fluid and electrolyte and acid base regulation & hypertension 

1230  Lunch

1310  Dialysis (general principles, clinical management & complications) 

1400  AKI, acute renal replacement therapy & plasmapharesis                

1440  Coffee 

1500  Transplant Medicine (pre-transplant, acute and chronic)

1550  CKD (anaemia, bone disease, drug prescribing, reno & cardiovascular disease,

hyperlipidaemias & nutrition) 

1640  Break / early departures

1645  Candidate Questions to Panel

1730  Close

Speaker Panel includes:

Dr Jonathan Barratt, Dr Peter Topham, Dr Mike Venning, Dr Steve Acton, Dr Reem AlJayyousi, Dr Graham Warwick

Registration fee £90

To book onto the course please e mail:

Jane Colbourn

E mail: jane.colbourn@uhl-tr.nhs.uk

Tel:   0116 258 8013

This meeting is sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant from Amgen

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY November 29th 2011

RSM

Session 1.

Introduction 0900-0905

0905-0930

Acute kidney Injury in 2011 and beyond

Dr Mark Thomas

Consultant Nephrologist Birmingham Heartland Hospital

Chair, NICE guideline development group on acute kidney injury

0930-1000

Acute kidney injury in sepsis

Professor Mervyn Singer

Department of Intensive Care, University College London Hospital and Centre

for Intensive Care, University College London

1000-1030

Dialysis and CRRT in acute kidney injury: why, when and how much?

Dr Marlies Ostermann

Departments of Critical Care and Nephrology

Guys and St Thomas’s Hospital, London

1030-1100 BREAK

Session 2.

1100-1130

Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis

Dr Alan Salama

UCL Centre for Nephrology

Royal Free Hospital, London

1130-1200

Acute kidney injury and hypertensive crisis

Dr Chris Laing

UCL Centre for Nephrology

Royal Free Hospital, London

1200-1230

Haemolytic uraemic syndrome

Dr Sally Johnson

Department of Paediatric Nephrology

Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle

1230-1300

Outcomes in acute kidney injury: results of the national audit

Dr Abraham Abraham

Aintree Renal Unit

University Hospital Aintree

1300-1400 BREAK

Session 3:

1400-1500

Clinical trials symposium

EULIGHT and myeloma associated acute kidney injury

Dr Paul Cockwell

Renal Unit

Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital

ERICCA: remote ischaemic preconditioning and acute kidney injury in

cardiac surgery

Dr Derek Hausenloy

The Heart Hospital and Hatter Institute of Cardiovascular Research, University

College London

PEXIVAS and vasculitis

Dr David Jayne

Vasculits and SLE service Addenbrookes Hospital and Department of Renal

Medicine, University of Cambridge

1500-1530

Combat induced acute kidney injury and deployed renal replacement

therapy

Wing Commander Mike K Almond

Royal Auxilliary Air Force

1530-1600 BREAK

Session 4

1600-1640

Biomarkers in AKI: New horizon or false dawn?

Dr Chirag Parikh

Department of medicine, section of nephrology

Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

Supported by Yale-UCL Royal Free partner renal unit initiative

1640-1700

Acute kidney Injury: a national response to a national problem

Dr Donal O’Donoghue

National Clinical Director for Kidney Care

Department of Health

The link for bookings is

http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/nec01.php

PDF FLYER 2011final fileUK

The title of this meeting was called ‘from Cradle to Grave’ and intended to highlight aspects of renal disease affecting all patient age groups. Dr. David Milford started the meeting by giving a presentation on the transition between paediatric and adult nephrology. He invited two patients to share the podium with him, and both gave a warm account of the experiences over the past years. When asked about smoking, alcohol and the other distractions in life, one replied back saying he “enjoyed everything in moderation, although he didn’t quite know what moderation meant!” Dr. Damian Fogarty followed with a presentation on the Renal Registry. He outlined the number of issues related to the capture and sharing data for improving the quality of renal services in the UK. He also suggested the renal community should focus on understanding the process timelines and outcomes involved with each modality of renal replacement therapy to improve the patient experience.

Dr. Matt Hall gave a presentation on the obstetric nephrology after a short break. This presentation was particularly welcomed by the delegates because the topic is gaining greater importance, yet continues to present a challenge during day-to-day work. He took a practical approach to the problem, and structured the talk around answering the two questions which expectant mothers present to physicians, “Is my pregnancy going to make my renal disease worse?” and “Will I take home a healthy baby?”. He gave a concise synopsis of the evidence and opinion available and highlighted a number of references during the presentation. Professor Peter Maxwell ended the first day of talks with a presentation on the A-Z of renal genetics. He also structured the talk around a pragmatic approach to the problem starting with ‘one gene at a time’, ‘all genes in one go’ and finishing with ‘gene-environment interactions’. He described a spectrum of conditions, but also discussed some of the new approaches to understanding the mechanisms of disease, and reinforced the message genetic association was not the same as causation.

Please click on the tweets to find links for references shown during the presentations. The hastag for this meeting is #rasprc11.