Welcome to the January edition of the WCN’22 Pre-Congress Newsletter:
A monthly preview of the top science, events, and networking coming to you
this February 2022.
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Scientific Articles
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Speaker Interview
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Lessons from Two Pandemics and What They Might Mean for Kidney Disease
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 In her plenary session, Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman will discuss how scientific progress in HIV and cancer built a platform for rapid developments in COVID-19 research. “This accelerated the discovery of the COVID-19 vaccines that have helped us begin to get ahead of the pandemic,” she states. |
| Professor Kamarulzaman will talk about the role of patients and the public in HIV research and treatment programs and how they can also help in nephrology. |
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Featured Talk
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Artificial Intelligence and ‘Omics May Help in Diagnosing and Treating Glomerular Disease
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 In her presentation at WCN’22, Dr. Mariam Priya Alexander, a pathologist at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA, will describe advances in pathology helping to diagnose glomerular disease, which accounts for approximately 16% of chronic kidney disease (CKD). |
| Dr. Alexander’s research interests include the application of ‘omics and mass cytometry to expand the understanding of CKD and immune-mediated injuries in transplants. She will describe the contribution her research is making to this field in a session that covers revolutionizing techniques and concepts. |
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Featured Talk
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Healthy Diets Could Help Our Kidneys and the Environment too
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 Diet is crucial to general health and well-being, but to what extent can we use food to treat and prevent kidney problems? At WCN‘22, this will be the question addressed by Peter Stenvinkel, professor and senior lecturer in the department of renal medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. |
| Professor Stenvinkel and colleagues are conducting two studies looking at the effects of diet. “We already know that a suboptimal diet is responsible for more deaths globally than any other factor, including tobacco smoking,” he says, “Epidemiological studies show that plant-based food reduces the risk of incident chronic kidney disease and retards the progression of kidney disease." |
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Featured Talk
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Improving Access to Dialysis and Transplantation for Rural Patients
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 Dialysis and transplantation are the main treatments for chronic kidney disease (CKD), but accessing those treatments is not always straightforward for patients in rural areas. |
| In her talk at WCN’22, Nicki Scholes-Robertson, a doctoral student from the University of Sydney, Australia, will discuss barriers to accessing care for CKD patients and their families in rural and remote communities and the subsequent impact on their diagnosis and treatment options. |
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Understanding Barriers to Transplantation and the Impact of COVID-19
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 Dr. Shaifali Sandal is a transplant nephrologist and assistant professor at the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada. Her research focuses on improving living donor kidney transplantation (KT) and re-transplantation rates. |
| In her talk at WCN’22, Dr. Sandal will discuss the findings of an international survey on COVID-19 and KT and explain how vulnerable transplantation is to the baseline health system resources. “We have found that in the initial days of the pandemic, the impact on transplantation was much greater in lower-income countries, independent of the COVID-19 burden. I will also describe immunosuppression practices, and I hope to generate some consensus.”
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