Kidney Week

Clinical Practice Session

Adapting Practice to a Pandemic: Focus on Home Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation

October 23, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Location: On-Demand

Session Description

In this session, home dialysis experts highlight key opportunities, barriers, challenges, and solutions in the utilization of home dialysis and the care of individuals receiving home dialysis during the COVID-19 pandemic. The transplant community and its patients then talk about surviving the initial pandemic and how they are managing and coping afterwards.

Learning Objective(s)

• Appreciate the benefits, challenges, and opportunities for increasing home dialysis utilization in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Provide an overview of the role of telemedicine and implementation virtual care in the maintenance of health among patients receiving home dialysis during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Appreciate the approach to and challenges of transplant management in the setting of COVID-19 infection
• Identify strategies to prevent infection with SARS-COV2 in the setting of chronic immunosuppression
• Highlight the concerns and issues confronting our patients

Learning Pathway(s)

• Dialysis
• Transplantation/Immunology

Moderators

• Krista L. Lentine, MD, PhD, FASN
• Jeffrey Perl, MD

Presentations

• Increasing Home Dialysis Utilization: Is COVID-19 a Catalyst for Change?
  10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
  Edwina A. Brown, MD, MBChB 
  
  

  Edwina A. Brown, MD, MBChB

  Edwina Brown is a consultant nephrologist at Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK, and. Professor of Renal Medicine, Imperial College London. Her main research interests are peritoneal dialysis, dialysis outcomes in the older people and renal palliative care. She was the principal investigator for FEPOD (Frail Elderly Patient Outcomes on Dialysis) comparing outcomes on assisted PD and haemodialysis with conservative care. She is currently working on a project integrating renal and elderly care and is starting a study Kidney Transplantation in Older People (KTOP). She organises an annual meeting on Renal Supportive Care and co-organises the UK PD Academy. She chaired ISPD guideline committee (2014-2020) and has overseen the development of the 2020 guideline on ‘Prescribing high quality, goal-directed peritoneal dialysis’ She has published extensively on peritoneal dialysis and dialysis in the elderly and is the author/editor of several books. She is president-elect for the ISPD (2020-2022)

Increasing Home Dialysis Utilization: Is COVID-19 a Catalyst for Change?

October 23, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

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• Telemedicine and Home Dialysis: Virtual Care Real Opportunities
  10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
  Susie Q. Lew, MD, FASN 
  

  Susie Q. Lew, MD, FASN

  Susie Lew, MD, FACP, FASN Dr. Susie Lew graduated from SUNY Downstate and completed her post graduate training at Brookdale Medical Center in Internal Medicine and Mount Sinai Medical Center in Nephrology. Currently, Susie Lew is a faculty nephrologist and Professor of Medicine at George Washington University. Her primary research interests and clinical practice focuses on improving the lives of patients with chronic kidney disease. As such she promotes peritoneal dialysis and telehealth. She serves on the ASN Quality Committee, ASN COVID-19 Home Dialysis Subcommittee and Quality Insights Board of Directors.

Telemedicine and Home Dialysis: Virtual Care Real Opportunities

October 23, 2020 | 10:20 AM - 10:45 AM

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• Clinical Management of the Kidney Transplant Recipient: The Known Unknowns
  10:45 AM - 11:10 AM
  Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH, FASN
  

  Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH, FASN

Clinical Management of the Kidney Transplant Recipient: The Known Unknowns

October 23, 2020 | 10:45 AM - 11:10 AM

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• Making It Safe to Stay Safe: Safe Living Post-Transplant in the COVID-19 Era
  11:10 AM - 11:35 AM
  

Making It Safe to Stay Safe: Safe Living Post-Transplant in the COVID-19 Era

October 23, 2020 | 11:10 AM - 11:35 AM

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• A Patient's Pandemic Journey
  11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
  Glenda V. Roberts 
  
  

  Glenda V. Roberts

  Prior to joining the UW Kidney Research Institute (KRI) and the Center for Dialysis Innovation (CDI) as the Director of External Relations & Patient Engagement, Glenda V. Roberts was an Information Technology executive with over 35 years of experience. A passionate activist for kidney research and people living with kidney disease, she’s involved in myriad national and international, transformative health care initiatives. They include the Kidney Health Initiative (KHI) Patient and Family Partnership Council (PFPC); the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) COVID-19 Rapid Response Team, and Transplant Subcommittee; the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Patient Group; the Can-SOLVE CKD International Research Advisory Committee; National Kidney Foundation-ASN eGFR and Race task force; and several National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) funded research projects and patient advisory committees. Diagnosed with kidney disease when she was just out of college, Glenda has first-hand knowledge of the challenges faced by patients and families affected by kidney disease. For four decades she slowed the progression of her kidney disease through diet and exercise. While living with kidney disease, Glenda simultaneously rose through the corporate world, evolving from a software developer to a senior business executive managing multi-million dollar business units for top-caliber corporations, including General Electric, Microsoft, Shell Oil, Johnson & Johnson, and as the Executive Director of the Seattle Transplant House.

A Patient's Pandemic Journey

October 23, 2020 | 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM

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