Program at a glance

Better Kidney Health

The Interconnected Kidney

The Kidney Losing Function

The Kidney Under Challenge

The Smart Kidney

Plenary Sessions

Pre-congress Courses

Special Sessions

Spotlight Sessions

Industry Symposia

Global Kidney Policy Forum

Welcome Reception

Poster sessions

Pre-Congress - Saturday April 13, 2024

Time	Session

9 a.m. 11 a.m.	Renal Pathology Course: New Insights in Glomerular Disease: Part 1 Hall C1	Conservative Kidney Management Course: Fundamentals of Conservative Kidney Management Hall C2	Navigating Kidney Care Symposium: From Guidelines to Practice, Personalized Care, and Quality of Life: PD: Translating Guidelines to Clinical Practice Hall C3	Annual Review of Nephrology Course: A Review of Key Topics in Nephrology Hall C4	Interventional Nephrology Course: Catheters and Biopsy Hall D	Primer Course in Glomerular Disease: A Case-Based Approach: Foundation in Glomerular Diseases & Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis Hall E
11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m.	Renal Pathology Course: New Insights in Glomerular Disease: Part 2 Hall C1	Conservative Kidney Management Course: Symptom Management Hall C2	Navigating Kidney Care Symposium: From Guidelines to Practice, Personalized Care, and Quality of Life: HD: Individualized Care Hall C3	Annual Review of Nephrology Course: Treatment Updates for Kidney Diseases Hall C4	Interventional Nephrology Course: Arteriovenous Access for Hemodialysis Hall D	Primer Course in Glomerular Disease: A Case-Based Approach: Nephrotic Syndrome Hall E
1 p.m. 2:30 p.m.	Sharing Expertise to Support the Set-up of Renal Registries: The Global Situation and Inspiration from Established Registries in Latin America: Part 1 Sala 1
2:15 p.m. 4:15 p.m.	Renal Pathology Course - Clinicopathological Correlations. With support from GlomCon Hall C1	Conservative Kidney Management Course: Capacity Building for CKM and Terminal Care Hall C2	Navigating Kidney Care Symposium: From Guidelines to Practice, Personalized Care, and Quality of Life: Enhancing Patient Quality of Life Hall C3	Annual Review of Nephrology Course: Glomerular Diseases, Transplantation and Hypertension: What’s New? Hall C4	Interventional Nephrology Course: Ultrasonography for Nephrologists Hall D	Primer Course in Glomerular Disease: A Case-Based Approach: Nephritic Syndrome Hall E
2:45 p.m. 4:05 p.m.	Sharing Expertise to Support the Set-up of Renal Registries: The Global Situation and Inspiration from Established Registries in Latin America: Part 2 Sala 1
4:30 p.m. 6 p.m.	WCN'24 Opening Ceremony and Plenary Session 1: The Origin of the Universe (Daniel de Florian, Argentina) Hall A
6:15 p.m. 7:15 p.m.	Poster Session 1 Exhibition Hall and Main Foyer			The ISN Emerging Leaders Program: how it has inspired me and has changed my perspective on global health care Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
6:45 p.m. 7:15 p.m.	Building Renal Registry Capacity: Introducing ISN’s Sharing Expertise to Support the Set-Up of Renal Registries (SharE-RR) Toolkit Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)

Day 1 - Sunday April 14, 2024

Time	Session

9 a.m. 10:30 a.m.	Innovations in Transplantation Hall A	Hands on Big Data Mining for the Nephrologist in 2024 Hall C1		APOL1 Targeted Therapies: Who to Test and Which Disease to Treat? Hall C2		AKI and Critical Care Nephrology in Latin America - By the ISN Young Nephrologists Committee Hall C3		Precise Phenotyping and Treatment Hall C4		Population Health and Strategies to Protect the Fragile Hall D		Translational Discoveries Paving the Way for Innovations in Managing Failing Kidney Complications Hall E
10:30 a.m. 11 a.m.	Hitting the Four Hits: The Potential of Dual BAFF/APRIL Inhibition in IgA Nephropathy Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
11 a.m. 12 p.m.	Plenary Session 2: CrisprCas9 Therapy for Sickle Cell Diseases: How Do We Go from Discovery to Equitable Availability of Gene Therapy for All? (Obiageli Eunice Nnodu, Nigeria) Hall A
12 p.m. 1 p.m.	Big Data Lab 1 Big Data Lab
12:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m.	Hot Debate: Should a Low Protein Diet (+/- Ketoanalogue Supplementation) Be Part of Advanced CKD Management? Hall A	Transplant Tourism in My Clinic: What Should I Do? ISN-DICG Joint Session Hall C1		Advocacy Workshop: Championing Change Hall C2		Strategies to Reduce Inequity of PD Provision Globally: ISN-ISPD Joint Session Hall C4		The ISN Emerging Leaders and Environmentally Sustainable Kidney Care: The Time is Now Hall D		Onconephrology: Various Flavors of AKI Hall E		POC testing for CKD/AKI screening and monitoring in community setting Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
1 p.m. 1:45 p.m.	Kidney Tank: Social Media as a Professional Tool Spotlight Stage 2
1:45 p.m. 2:45 p.m.	Industry Symposium Hall C1		Industry Symposium Hall C2		Industry Symposium Hall C3		Industry Symposium Hall C4		Industry Symposium Hall D		Industry Symposium Hall E
2:45 p.m. 3:30 p.m.	What is ongoing in CKDu around the world? - CKDU interactive discussions (ISN i3C) Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
3 p.m. 4 p.m.	Big Data Lab 2 Big Data Lab	A Balancing Act: Your Kidneys and Electrolytes Hall A		Kidney Health for All - Advancing Equitable Access to Care and Optimal Medication Practice: WKD Session Hall C1		Women and Kidney Health Hall C2		Meeting Interventional Nephrology Needs in Low Resource Settings Hall C3		Cardiorenal Syndrome: Updates in the Pathophysiology and State-of-the-Art Treatment Hall D		New Tools to Study Kidney Disease Hall E
4 p.m. 4:30 p.m.	Potential Role of Anti-CD38 Therapy in Autoimmune Kidney Diseases like Lupus Nephritis Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
4:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m.	Policy and Advocacy Approaches Hall A	SAN Awards Session Hall C1		Building Competency in Nephrology Education Hall C2		New Developments in CKD Epidemiology Research Hall C4		Kidney Transplantation: State of the Art. ISN-TTS Joint Session Hall D		Salt Substitutes and HTN/CVD Hall E		Laughter Therapy in Dialysis: What does it look like and how do you do it Spotlight Stage 2
5 p.m. 6 p.m.	Big Data Lab 3 Big Data Lab		Glomerular Disease Jeopardy Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
5:30 p.m. 6 p.m.	Challenges pertaining to peritoneal dialysis practice in Latin America: a dialogue between nurses and doctors Spotlight Stage 2
5:45 p.m. 6:45 p.m.	Poster Session 2 Exhibition Hall and Main Foyer
6 p.m. 7 p.m.	ISN Programs Awards Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)

Day 2 - Monday April 15, 2024

Time	Session

8:30 a.m. 9 a.m.	Industry Symposium Hall C2
9 a.m. 10:30 a.m.	Transplantation: International Updates. Hall A	ADPKD Updates Hall C1	Editors' Pick of ISN Journals: KI and KIR Hall C2	Hot Digests of Kidney Inflammation and Immunity: ISN-JSN Joint Session Hall C3	Insights From Understanding Heterogeneous Trajectories to Kidney Failure Hall C4	Hypertension - the Cutting Edge: Advances in Science and Management Hall D	Genetics and Genomics of Rare Kidney Disease: ISN-Indian SN Joint Session Hall E
10:30 a.m. 11 a.m.	Nephrology in Jeopardy: A Sustainable Kidney Care Quiz Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
11 a.m. 12 p.m.	Plenary Session 3: Generative AI Revolution in Medicine (Michal Rosen-Zvi, Israel) Hall A
12 p.m. 1 p.m.	Big Data Lab 4 Big Data Lab	Chronic Kidney Disease and the Global Public Health Agenda Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
12:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m.	Hot Debate: Genetic Testing in CKD: In High-risk Populations Only or in All Patients with CKD? Hall A	The Journey of a Patient with Kidney and Cardiovascular Diseases: From Detection to Referral to Co-management Hall C1	Digging Up the Ethical Foundations of Kidney Care Hall C2	It’s Hard to Be a Woman With CKD. WIN/WIN-India Special Session Hall C4	Natural and Man-made Disasters and Kidney Care. ISN-ERA Special Lecture Hall D	KDIGO 2024 Anemia Guideline: Case-based Illustrations: ISN-KDIGO Joint Session Hall E
12:45 p.m. 1:30 p.m.	Keys to success to be on top of what is published in nephrology (ISN-ACT) Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
1 p.m. 1:45 p.m.	Global Impacts on Kidney Care and Transplantation via Sister Centers Partnerships Spotlight Stage 2
1:45 p.m. 2:45 p.m.	Industry Symposium Hall C1	Industry Symposium Hall C2	Industry Symposium Hall C3	Industry Symposium Hall C4	Industry Symposium Hall D	Industry Symposium Hall E
2:45 p.m. 3:15 p.m.	What nephrologists can learn from nurses Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
3 p.m. 4 p.m.	Big Data Lab 5 Big Data Lab	Late Breaking Clinical Trials Session Hall A	Disparities in the Care of People Living with Kidney Failure in Latin America – Findings from the 2023 ISN-Global Kidney Health Atlas Hall C1	Professor Donal O'Donoghue Global Kidney Policy Forum: Introduction and Scene Setting Hall C2	Treatment Goals for Severe Hyponatremia: A Debate on Current Guidelines Program Hall C3	Kaplan PKD Roundtable: Exploring Novel PKD Therapeutics Hall C4	Stewardship and Forward Planning in Stage Four CKD. ISN-KSN Joint Session Hall D	Transplant-Onconephrology Hall E
3:15 p.m. 3:45 p.m.	Launching a toolkit for the creation of a YN group as part of your national society Spotlight Stage 2
3:45 p.m. 4:45 p.m.	Young Nephrologists Quiz-a-Thon Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
3:50 p.m. 5:40 p.m.	Professor Donal O'Donoghue Global Kidney Policy Forum: Advancing Accessibility in Kidney Health - Towards Sustainable Solutions Hall C2
4:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m.	Paraproteinemia and the Kidney Hall A	Recent Trends in Global Nephrology - Care of Advanced CKD and Dialysis Patients: ISN-DOPPS Joint Session Hall C3	Personalized Kidney Replacement Treatment: Adapting Guidelines to Real-world Scenarios Hall C4	Designing Smart Clinical Trials Hall D	Management of Acute Kidney Injury: Paediatric Perspective. ISN-IPNA Joint Session Hall E
4:45 p.m. 5:30 p.m.	Implementing early CKD detection programs Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)
5 p.m. 6 p.m.	Big Data Lab 6 Big Data Lab
5:45 p.m. 6:45 p.m.	Poster Session 3 Exhibition Hall and Main Foyer	ISN Community Film Event Award Ceremony Spotlight Stage 1 (exhibition hall)

Day 3 - Tuesday April 16, 2024

Time	Session

9 a.m. 10 a.m.	Type 2 Diabetes in Kidney Disease: Recent Updates and Best Practices for Detection and Treatment Hall C4		Environmental Approaches for Improving Kidney Health Hall D			Hi Aldo, What's New? Advances in Aldosterone in Health and Disease Hall E
9 a.m. 10:30 a.m.	Clinical Management of Glomerulonephritis (GN) Hall A
10 a.m. 11 a.m.	Poster Session 4 Main Foyer
11 a.m. 12:15 p.m.	Plenary Session 4: Insights into SGLT2 Inhibitors: A Story of Discovery (Ele Ferrannini, Italy) Hall A
12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.	Hot Debate in CKD Hypertension Management: Targeting Systolic BP Below 120? Hall A	New Insights into C3 Glomerulonephritis: Focus on Pathogenesis and Potential Therapeutic Targets Hall C1		Complications and Nutritional Approaches to CKD: ISN-ISRNM Joint Session Hall C4	CKDu Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Treatment Hall D		Rare and Orphan Diseases Hall E

International Society of Nephrology (ISN) General Assembly. Voting members only. Sala 1. Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 7:30-8:45.