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Friday, February 7, 2025

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9:45 a.m. 11:15 a.m.	Kidney-Cancer Intersections: Complications, Checkpoints and Abnormalities - Charting a Course GeorgiAbraham Chair MGM Healthcare, Chennai, IndiaIndia KriangTungsanga Chair Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn UnviersityThailand SanjayD'Cruz Chair Government Medical College & Hospital, ChandigarhIndia Renal Complications of Novel Cancer Therapies: Practical Insights AnushreeShirali Speaker Yale UniversityUnited States Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and AKI MitchellRosner Speaker Univeristy of Virginia HealthUnited States Electrolyte Abnormalities in the Cancer Patient JolantaMalyszko Speaker Medical University of Warsaw, PolandPoland Opening an Onconephrology Clinic - What Should You Be Aware of? KenarJhaveri Speaker Northwell HealthUnited States Q&A Amaltas Hall B101-A	New Directions in CKD Management: A Case-based Look at the 2024 KDIGO Guidelines. ISN-KDIGO Joint Session IfeomaUlasi Chair College of Medicine, University of NigeriaNigeria Sanjib KumarSharma Chair BP Koirala Institute of Health SciencesNepal ShubharthiKar Chair Habiganj Medical College,BangladeshBangladesh Detecting and Monitoring CKD Progression ElkeSchaeffner Speaker Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, GermanyGermany How to Slow and Prevent Kidney and Cardiovascular Complications Magdalena Madero Speaker Chief of Nephrology, Instituto Nacional de CardiolMexico Managing Complex CKD Cases With Multiple Comorbidities NatashaMcIntyre Speaker Clinician Scientist, London Health Sciences Centre, London, CanadaCanada Quality of Life in CKD: The Role of Drug Stewardship and Symptom Management TeerawatThanachayanont Speaker Bhumirajanagarindra Kidney Institute HospitalThailand Q&A Amaltas Hall B101-B			Genetic Kidney Diseases: Current Trends and Future Perspectives. ISN-JSN Joint Session PrabirRoy-Chaudhury Chair University of North Carolina and Salisbury VAMCUnited States Raja Ramachandran Chair Associate ProfessorIndia ReikoInagi Chair The University of Tokyo Graduate School of MedicineJapan Genetic Variants in Kidney Diseases TomokoHorinouchi Speaker Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of MedicineJapan Molecular Data and Genetic Discoveries in Kidney Diseases KrzysztofKiryluk Speaker Columbia UniversityUnited States Trends in Diagnosing Genetic Kidney Diseases EiseiSohara Speaker Institute of Science TokyoJapan Metabolism of Genetic Kidney Diseases (Pathogenic Podocyte Lipid Metabolism of Alport Syndrome) AlessiaFornoni Speaker University of Miami United States Q&A Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall	Hot Topics From the Tropics SabineKaram Chair University of MinnesotaUnited States SourabhSharma Chair Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, IndiaIndia Best Abstract Winner - Basic Science: miRNA Profiling of Urinary Exosomes for Predicting Renal Outcome After Acute Kidney Injury: A Pilot Study JaskiranKaur Oral Abstract Presenter Department of Experimental Medicine and BiotechnologyIndia Best Abstract Winner - Clinical Science: Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing Rituximab to Mycophenolate Mofetil in Children and Young Adults With Steroid-Dependent Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome AndreaAngeletti Oral Abstract Presenter Italy Q and A Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tropical Infections and the Kidney MythriShankar Speaker Institute of NephrourologyIndia Challenges in the Tropics: When CKDu Becomes Less Unknown ErangaWijewickrama Speaker Faculty of Medicine, University of ColomboSri Lanka Roundtable Discussion BiancaDavidson Speaker Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape TownSouth Africa ErangaWijewickrama Speaker Faculty of Medicine, University of ColomboSri Lanka MythriShankar Speaker Institute of NephrourologyIndia SourabhSharma Speaker Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, IndiaIndia VivekKumar Speaker Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, IndiaIndia Champa Hall 304		CKD-MBD Insights and Innovations for 2025 and Beyond: No Bone Left Uncovered ArvindBagga Chair India UttaraDas Chair All IndiaInstitute of Medical Science MangalagiriIndia What Should a Clinician Know About CKD-MBD in 2025? HanneJoergensen Speaker Aarhus UniversityDenmark CKD-MBD in Children and Young Adults: What's the Difference? SukanyaGovindan Speaker Mehta Children's Hospitals and MGM healthcare, Chennai, IndiaIndia Progress in CKD-driven Vascular Calcification: From Bench to Bedside MarcVervloet Speaker Radboud University Medical center, The NetherlandsNetherlands How to Use Serum Biomarkers for Optimal Management of CKD-MBD SandroMazzaferro Speaker Sapienza University of Rome, ItalyItaly Q&A Gulmohar Hall 302		Measuring Healthcare Transition Readiness to Adult-Focused Care Among Solid Organ Pediatric Transplant Recipients AhmedMitwallii Chair Saudi Arabia AnandChellappan Chair All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur India AsiriS Abeyagunawardena Chair University of PeradeniyaSri Lanka Dharmendra singhBhadauriya Chair India Harbir SinghKohli Chair Professor & Head of Nephrology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, IndiaIndia IndiraAgarwal Chair Christian Medical CollegeIndia KhalidAlhasan Chair Saudi Arabia RajivSinha Chair Prof ,Pediatrics, HOD , Division of Pediatric Nephrology, institute of Child Health,Kolkata,IndiaIndia RandulaRanawaka Chair Sri Lanka RukshanaShroff Chair MD, FRCPCH, PhDUnited Kingdom Shyam BihariBansal Chair Department of Nephrology, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, IndiaIndia Withanage Dona Vindya NandaniGunasekara Chair Sri Lanka Medication Non-adherence Continuinty Care Lost in Transition AhmedMitwallii Chair Saudi Arabia Harbir SinghKohli Chair Professor & Head of Nephrology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, IndiaIndia KhalidAlhasan Chair Saudi Arabia VikasDharnidharka Speaker Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolUnited States Transition Tools and Efficacy AsiriS Abeyagunawardena Chair University of PeradeniyaSri Lanka RukshanaShroff Chair MD, FRCPCH, PhDUnited Kingdom Shyam BihariBansal Chair Department of Nephrology, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, IndiaIndia RupeshRaina Speaker United States What Does Transition Mean for LMIC: Challenges Dharmendra singhBhadauriya Chair India RandulaRanawaka Chair Sri Lanka Kar HuiNg Speaker Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of SingaporeSingapore Multidisplinary Approach AnandChellappan Chair All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur India IndiraAgarwal Chair Christian Medical CollegeIndia Withanage Dona Vindya NandaniGunasekara Chair Sri Lanka PriyaVerghese Speaker pverghese@luriechildrens.orgProfessor, Division ChiefUnited States Q and A Kesar Hall 202		Integrating Knowledge From Large-scale Data Sets in Your Research Strategy: Introduction to the Hands-on Big Data Lab at WCN'25 MatthiasKretzler Chair University of MichiganUnited States ShrutiTapiawala Chair Gleneagles Hospital Mumbai , Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Center, MumbaiIndia Artificial and Human Intelligence Work Best Together: Pathomics in 2025 LauraBarisoni Speaker Duke UniversityUnited States Mapping Molecular Data Sets on Clinical Profiles VijiNair Speaker University of MichiganUnited States The Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) Kidney Tissue Atlas: Latest Developments SanjayJain Speaker Washington University School of MedicineUnited States Introduction to the Hands-on Big Data Lab HeatherAscani Speaker University of MichiganUnited States NikkiBonevich Speaker University of MichiganUnited States VijiNair Speaker University of MichiganUnited States Kumudini Hall 301	Planetary and Kidney Health: It is a Two-Way Journey GermaineWong Chair University of SydneyAustralia MariaPippias Chair University of BristolUnited Kingdom SundararamanSwaminathan Chair India People, the Planet, and Nephrology - the Impact of Environmental Change on Kidney Health Giorgina BarbaraPiccoli Speaker Centre Hospitalier Le MansFrance How to Develop a Roadmap for Environmentally Sustainable Kidney Care KatherineBarraclough Speaker Melbourne HealthAustralia How Do I Make My Dialysis Unit More Environment-friendly? TanujLamech Speaker SRM Medical College Hospital and Research CentreIndia What Will Kidney Care Look Like 25 Years From Now? The Role of Future Generations Winston Wing ShingFung Speaker Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong KongHong Kong, China Q&A Neelkamal Hall 305			State of the Art Insights Into Pregnancy and Pediatric Thrombotic Microangiopathies ArvindBagga Chair India DavidKavanagh Chair National Renal Complement Therapeutics Centre United Kingdom VinayRathore Chair All India Institute of Medical Sciences- RaipurIndia Outcomes From the ISN Haemolytic Uraemic Syndromes Forum: A Comprehensive Review DavidKavanagh Speaker National Renal Complement Therapeutics Centre United Kingdom Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of TMAs in Pregnancy ShilpanjaliJesudason Speaker Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide, AustraliaAustralia Factor H Autoantibodies in aHUS AditiSinha Speaker Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia aHUS in Paediatric Populations Lap Tak Alison MA Speaker Hong Kong Children\'s Hospital Hong Kong, China Q&A Parijat Hall 201
11:15 a.m. 12 p.m.	Big Data Lab 1 - Your Gateway to Transcriptomic Analysis in Kidney Disease Research: Nephroseq Big Data Lab								Industry Spotlight Session Spotlight One (Exhibition)
11:45 a.m. 12:45 p.m.	Plenary Session 2: Mathematics as a Microscopy: Modeling Kidney Disease (Anita Layton, Canada) AgnesFogo Chair United States SabineKaram Chair University of MinnesotaUnited States Shyam BihariBansal Chair Department of Nephrology, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, IndiaIndia Roscoe Robinson Award ShilpanjaliJesudason Awardee Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide, AustraliaAustralia Mathematics as a Microscopy: Modeling Kidney Disease. Stewart Cameron Lecture AnitaLayton Speaker University of WaterlooCanada Schrier Award GirishBhatt Awardee All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, M.P, IndiaIndia Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall
1 p.m. 2 p.m.	Industry Symposium Amaltas Hall B101-A			Industry Symposium Amaltas Hall B101-B			Industry Symposium Kumudini Hall 301				Improving Renal Pathology Services in Rwanda – a Case Study on the Impact of the ISN Fellowship Program (40 years old!) RolandoClaure Del Granado Spotlight Chairperson Division of Nephrology, Hospital Obrero No 2 - Caja Nacional de Salud, Cochabamba Bolivia EtienneNtabanganyimana Spotlight Speaker Rwanda Ntakirutimana Gervais Spotlight Speaker Rwanda SantoshVarughese Spotlight Speaker Christian Medical College VelloreIndia SwarnalataGowrishankar Spotlight Speaker swarnalatag@gmail.comIndia Spotlight One (Exhibition)			ISN Community Film Event MarinaWainstein Chair Academia Nacional de Medicina de Buenos AiresArgentina Spotlight Two (Amphitheatre, level 5)
1:30 p.m. 2:15 p.m.	Glomerular Disease Jeopardy Spotlight One (Exhibition)								What Can Be Achieved in the Sister Center Partnerships? RukshanaShroff Spotlight Chairperson MD, FRCPCH, PhDUnited Kingdom GirishBhatt Spotlight Speaker All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, M.P, IndiaIndia Pukar ChandraShrestha Spotlight Speaker Nepal SUSANUTHUP Spotlight Speaker India Spotlight Two (Amphitheatre, level 5)
2:15 p.m. 3:45 p.m.	Xenotransplantation - the Brave New World of Farm to Clinic Christoph Wanner Chair UniversityGermany SishirGang Chair India The First Pig to Human Transplant LeonardoRiella Speaker Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States Infectious Challenges in Xenotransplant AtulHumar Speaker University of TorontoCanada Ethical Challenges of Xenotransplantation DominiqueMartin Speaker Deakin UniversityAustralia Q&A Amaltas Hall B101-A	Unraveling the Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Nexus: Making All Work Together for Kidney Care Parminder KaurJudge Chair University of Oxford, UKUnited Kingdom VineetBehera Chair Consultant Nephrologist & Professor Medicine, INHS Kalyani, VisakhapatnamIndia Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome: What Does it Mean? KatherineTuttle Speaker University of Washington School of Medicine, Division of NephrologyUnited States GLP-1 RA in Kidney Disease: Beyond T2DM Control BeatrizFernandez-Fernandez Speaker Hospital Universitario Fundación Jimenez Díaz Spain New Frontiers in CKD Therapy: Endothelin Receptor Antagonists Maria JoseSoler Speaker Hospital del Vall d´HebronSpain Myocardial Infarction in Kidney Disease - What Should a Nephrologist Know? SydneyTang Speaker Hong Kong, China Q&A Amaltas Hall B101-B			HIT! High Impact Clinical Trials – What and Why AndreaViecelli Chair University of QueenslandAustralia VivekKumar Chair Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, IndiaIndia Combination Effect of Finerenone and Empagliflozin in Participants With Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Using a UACR Endpoint Study (CONFIDENCE) RajivAgarwal Oral Abstract Presenter United States Results From the REGENCY Trial Assessing Efficacy and Safety of Obinutuzumab in Active Lupus Nephritis BradRovin Oral Abstract Presenter The Ohio State UniversityUnited States Clinical and Safety Outcomes of Semaglutide by CKD Severity in the FLOW trial KatherineTuttle Oral Abstract Presenter University of Washington School of Medicine, Division of NephrologyUnited States Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall	Bridging the Gap: PKD Research and Clinical Care Perspective. Kaplan PKD Session VicenteTorres Chair Mayo ClinicUnited States Welcome and Introduction of the Lillian Jean Kaplan Prize for PKD VicenteTorres Speaker Mayo ClinicUnited States Preclinical Findings of PKD Mechanism to Therapy Designs and Testing MarieTrudel Speaker Canada Perspective on PKD Research and Clinical Care in India SundararamanSwaminathan Speaker India Roundtable Discussion AndrewMallett Speaker JCU & THHSAustralia BillWang Speaker Hong Kong, China MarieTrudel Speaker Canada SundararamanSwaminathan Speaker India Champa Hall 304		Improving Global Understanding and Achieving Equity in Peritoneal Dialysis Practices: ISN-DOPPS Joint Session AmitGupta Chair Chairman Department of Nephrology & Renal Transplantation, Apollomedics Superspeciality Hospital, Lucknow, IndiaIndia RitaSuri Chair McGill UniversityCanada RobertoPecoits Filho Chair Arbor Research Collaborative for HealthUnited States PDOPPS: Where Are We 10 Years Later? RobertoPecoits Filho Speaker Arbor Research Collaborative for HealthUnited States Kidney Health for Women on Peritoneal Dialysis: Insights from PDOPPS EdwinaBrown Speaker Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustUnited Kingdom Was the PD-First Policy in Thailand Justified? Insights From the PDOPPS TalerngsakKanjanabuch Speaker Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn UniversityThailand Improving PD Use and Outcomes in Low and Middle-income Countries - Is Automated Peritoneal Dialysis the Answer? Yes JeffreyPerl Speaker St. Michael's Hospital Canada Improving PD Use and Outcomes in Low and Middle-income Countries - Is Automated Peritoneal Dialysis the Answer? No RashaDarwish Speaker Kasr Aleiny medical school , Cairo UniversityEgypt Q&A/Panel Discussion Gulmohar Hall 302		Bridging the Clinical Gap: Sustainable Strategies and Innovative Therapies for Global Kidney Health ErangaWijewickrama Chair Faculty of Medicine, University of ColomboSri Lanka Prof (Dr ) SanjeevGulati Chair Executive Director Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, Fortis gp of Hospitals and Adjunct Professor, Manipal University India Sustainable Community Approaches to Early CKD Detection RonaldGansevoort Speaker Dept. Nephrology, University Medical Center GroningenNetherlands Kidney Disease Treatment Gaps Worldwide - Where Are the Solutions? AdeeraLevin Speaker University of British Columbia and Providence Health CareCanada The Promise of Emerging Therapies in Reducing the Global Kidney Disease Burden DavidWheeler Speaker University College LondonUnited Kingdom Co-opting Patients as Partners in Kidney Care: How Do We Do It? ShilpanjaliJesudason Speaker Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide, AustraliaAustralia Co-opting Patients as Partners in Kidney Care: How Do We Do It? ShyamsundarMuthuramalingam Speaker Central Adelaide Local Health Network Australia Q&A Kesar Hall 202		Managing Rare Kidney Diseases Across the Lifespan: From Childhood to Adulthood JonathanBarratt Chair University of Leicester, Leicester, UKUnited Kingdom New Innovations and Best Practices for Rare Kidney Disease JonathanBarratt Speaker University of Leicester, Leicester, UKUnited Kingdom How Can the CureGN and NEPTUNE Help Us Better Understand Rare Kidney Disease MatthiasKretzler Speaker University of MichiganUnited States Using Patient Registry Data to Fight Rare Kidney Diseases DanielGale Speaker University College LondonUnited Kingdom Living With Rare Kidney Disease in Africa: Experiences and Challenges IfeomaUlasi Speaker College of Medicine, University of NigeriaNigeria Q&A Kumudini Hall 301	Innovative Interventions in Interventional Nephrology Arup Ratan Dutta Chair India CarmenTzanno Branco Martins Chair SLANH, ISNBrazil TusharVachharajani Chair John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center / Wayne State University School of MedicineUnited States Multi-organ POCUS in AKI AbhilashKoratala Speaker United States Changing Paradigms in Dialysis Vascular Access - What Should the Current Day Nephrologist Know? VandanaNiyyar Speaker Emory UniversityUnited States The Need for a Structured POCUS Program for the Nephrology Trainee EduardoArgaiz Speaker Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y NutriciónMexico How to Set Up an Interventional Nephrology Service With Limited Resources MayuriTrivedi Speaker Senior consultant and Head Department of Nephrology LTMG hospital,Mumbai,IndiaIndia Q&A Neelkamal Hall 305			How Do I…? Practical Approaches to Kidney Care Challenges LilyMushahar Chair Lily Mushahar, Hospital Tuanku Ja'afar Seremban, MalaysiaMalaysia SudarshanBallal Chair Nephrologist and Chairman, Manipal Hospitals, India, BengaluruIndia How Do I…Set Up and Implement Multidisciplinary Kidney Care? IfeomaUlasi Speaker College of Medicine, University of NigeriaNigeria How Do I…Manage Kidney Transplant Recipients Who Are Losing Their Graft? SunitaBavanandan Speaker Hospital Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaMalaysia How Do I…Get Pregnant With Kidney Disease? SilviShah Speaker University of Cincinnati, Ohio, United StatesUnited States How Do I…Conduct Immune Risk Stratification of Potential Kidney Transplant Recipients? AjayKher Speaker Epitome Kidney Urology Institute And Lions Hospital, DelhiIndia How Do I…Design and Implement Large Simple Trials? MegJardine Speaker NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, AustraliaAustralia Q&A Parijat Hall 201
3:45 p.m. 4:30 p.m.	Big Data Lab 2 - Deepen your understanding of CKD and AKI in healthy and diseased kidneys: The Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) Kidney Tissue Atlas Big Data Lab					Industry Spotlight Session Spotlight One (Exhibition)						Easing the Treatment Burden: The Nurse's Role in Patient and Caregiver Support Ana Elizabeth pradofigueiredo Spotlight Chairperson Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Brazil ElaineBowes Spotlight Speaker King's College Hospital United Kingdom Fatimade Figueiredo Spotlight Speaker United Kingdom Janevan der Jeugd Spotlight Speaker Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South AustraliaAustralia ZehraAydin Spotlight Speaker Istanbul Atlas UniversityTürkiye Spotlight Two (Amphitheatre, level 5)
4:15 p.m. 5:15 p.m.	CKD Screening: A Universal Necessity or a Targeted Approach? The Great Debate; ISN-ERA Special Session AminuBello Chair University of AlbertaCanada HarunUr Rashid Chair Kidney Foundation Hospital and Research InstituteBangladesh VijayKher Chair Epitome Kidney & Urology Institute, New DelhiIndia Hot Debate - We Should Have Universal Screening For CKD: ISN-ERA Special Lecture - PRO AlbertoOrtiz Speaker IIS-Fundacion Jimenez Diaz UAM, Madrid, SpainSpain Hot Debate - We Should Have Universal Screening For CKD: ISN-ERA Special Lecture - CON GermaineWong Speaker University of SydneyAustralia Amaltas Hall B101-A		Autoimmunity in Glomerular Diseases - Looking Beyond the Kidney MaartenTaal Chair University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom ShrutiTapiawala Chair Gleneagles Hospital Mumbai , Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Center, MumbaiIndia Anti-nephrin Antibodies - What Do We Know and What Can We Look Forward to? TobiasHuber Speaker University Medical Center Hamburg-EppendorfGermany Mechanism of IgA Deposition in the Mesangium: Implication for Novel Treatments Yoshihito Nihei Speaker Department of Nephrology, Juntendo University Faculty of MedicineJapan Lupus Nephritis: Recent Advances in Pathogenesis and New Therapeutic Approaches LizLightstone Speaker Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom Q&A Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall			Hot Debate: In This New Era of Artificial Intelligence, Do We Need Renal Pathologists? GeetikaSingh Chair All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India India Ritambhra NadaDUSEJA Chair PGIMER,CHANDIGARG,INDIAIndia SuryaSeshan Chair Weill Cornell MedicineUnited States Hot Debate: In This New Era of Artificial Intelligence, We No Longer Need Renal Pathologists - PRO KimSolez Speaker Canada Hot Debate: In This New Era of Artificial Intelligence, We No Longer Need Renal Pathologists - CON AgnesFogo Speaker United States Champa Hall 304			Real World Ethics: When It's Hard to Be Good DominiqueMartin Chair Deakin UniversityAustralia Elliot KorantengTannor Chair Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana MadhukarMisra Chair University of Missouri Columbia, USAUnited States Introduction: the Difficulty of Translating Ethical Ideals in the Real World DominiqueMartin Speaker Deakin UniversityAustralia Case Study 1: The Disruptive Dialysis Patient IanDittmer Speaker Te Whatu Ora - Health New ZealandNew Zealand Case Study 2: The Dodgy Doctor PriyaPais Speaker Department of Pediatric Nephrology, St John's Medical College, Bengaluru (Bangalore), IndiaIndia Case Study 3: The Insistent Family GhadaAnkawi Speaker King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia Q and A, and Conclusion: Ethical Recommendations for Real World Practice Gulmohar Hall 302			Exploring Complement System Dynamics: C3G and IgAN AmitGovil Chair University of CincinnatiUnited States HernánTrimarchi Chair HOSPITAL BRITÁNICO DE BUENOS AIRESArgentina S AnanthKarumanchi Chair Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterUnited States The Complement System in C3G and IgAN: A Pathophysiologic Perspective HernánTrimarchi Speaker HOSPITAL BRITÁNICO DE BUENOS AIRESArgentina The Complement System in C3G: Updated Therapeutic Approaches DavidKavanagh Speaker National Renal Complement Therapeutics Centre United Kingdom The Complement System in IgAN: An Updated Therapeutic Approach HeatherReich Speaker University of Toronto, University Health NetworkCanada Q&A Kumudini Hall 301			Are Your Kidneys OK? Early CKD Detection and Key Advocacy Strategies. WKD Joint Session Augusto CesarSoares dos Santos Junior Chair Hospital das Clinicas, UFMG; Fac Ciências MedicasBrazil LathaKumaraswami Chair Past President, IFKF-WKA; Managing Trustee TANKER Foundation, IndiaIndia Primary Kidney Disease Prevention: The 8 Golden Rules DinaAbdellatif Speaker Cairo University HospitalEgypt Proactive Kidney Health: The Return on Investment of Early Detection JosephVassalotti Speaker Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States Kidney Health Across Ages: Comparing Risk Factors in Adults and Pediatrics AnnaFrancis Speaker University of QueenslandAustralia Kidney Awareness: Engaging Patients for Better Outcomes VasundharaRaghavan Speaker Member of PLAGIndia Q&A Neelkamal Hall 305
5:15 p.m. 6 p.m.	Big Data Lab 3 - Discover the latest Spatial Biology and Digital Pathology tools and techniques specifically designed for renal research. Big Data Lab
5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m.	Poster Session Exhibition Hall					Meet the Experts Kesar Hall 202						Young Nephrologists Quiz-a-Thon III Spotlight One (Exhibition)

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Time	Session

8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m.	Industry Symposium Amaltas Hall B101-A	Industry Symposium Champa Hall 304	Meet the Experts Kesar Hall 202	Industry Symposium Kumudini Hall 301	Industry Symposium Neelkamal Hall 305
9:45 a.m. 11:15 a.m.	Toward Complex Understanding of Kidney Function in AKI: Role of Biomarkers, Sex Differences and the Tropics; ISN-KSN Joint Session GirishNarayen Chair Chief of Nephrology division, udaiomni hospital, Hyderabad,IndiaIndia Hyeong CheonPark Chair Hyeong Cheon Park, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei UniversityKorea (Republic of) Prem PVarma Chair Principal DirectorIndia What Do We Know About the Association Between AKI and Long-Term Adverse Outcomes? Chi-yuanHsu Speaker University of California, San FranciscoUnited States Are Biomarkers in AKI Ready for Prime Time? ChiragParikh Speaker Johns Hopkins University United States Community-acquired AKI in the Tropics - Is it a Different Disease? VivekKumar Speaker Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, IndiaIndia Sex as a Biological Variable in the Epidemiology of AKI MarliesOstermann Speaker King's College LondonUnited Kingdom Q&A Amaltas Hall B101-A	Anemia Management: Paradigm Shift or Hype? DineshKhullar Chair India Fatiu AbiolaArogundade Chair Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex/ National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria Nigeria MayuriTrivedi Chair Senior consultant and Head Department of Nephrology LTMG hospital,Mumbai,IndiaIndia Guideline-based Treatment of Anaemia of CKD: What's New? Kai-UweEckardt Speaker Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive CarGermany HIF-PHIs: Two Sides of the Same Coin Chuan-MingHao Speaker Fudan University Huashan HospitalChina Iron Therapy in CKD: Moving Targets EviNagler Speaker Nephrology Department, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium Consequences of Iron Overload RobertKalyesubula Speaker Makerere, UniversityUganda Q&A Amaltas Hall B101-B	Debunking Nephrology Myths: Insights From Global Kidney Care Leaders SanjayPandya Chair Consulting Nephrologist, Wockhardt Hospital & Jalaram Hospital, RajkotIndia SreejithParameswaran Chair Professor & Head, Department of Nephrology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India India Revisiting Kidney Biopsies: Why More Than One Can Be Beneficial BradRovin Speaker The Ohio State UniversityUnited States Genetic Testing for Kidney Disease Is Not Complicated KelsieBogyo Speaker Columbia University Irving Medical CenterUnited States Thrombotic Microangiopathy Workup: Everything You Need to Know AnujaJava Speaker WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN ST. LOUISUnited States Dealing With Biological Variability in Albuminuria and Creatinine SusrutWaikar Speaker Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, and Boston Medical CenterUnited States The Underdiagnosis of Primary Aldosteronism in Clinical Practice VivekBhalla Speaker Director, Stanford Hypertension Center; Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of MedicineUnited States Q&A Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall	The ISN-KI/KIR Editorial Fellows Session: The Best of 2024/25 Articles BradRovin Chair The Ohio State UniversityUnited States GermaineWong Chair University of SydneyAustralia PierreRonco Chair Hôpital TenonFrance Kidney International in Focus: Annual Highlights PierreRonco Speaker Hôpital TenonFrance ISN-KI Fellows: Showcasing Excellence Part 1 Eugene Yu HinChan Speaker The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Children's HospitalHong Kong, China ISN-KI Fellows: Showcasing Excellence Part 2 IsabelleAyoub Speaker The Ohio State UniversityUnited States ISN-KI Fellows: Showcasing Excellence Part 3 ChristophKuppe Speaker Department of Nephrology, RWTH University Aachen, GermanyGermany ISN-KI Fellows: Showcasing Excellence Part 4 GriffithPerkins Speaker Australia Q and A Kidney International Reports in Focus: Annual Highlights JaiRadhakrishnan Speaker Columbia University in the City of New YorkUnited States Kidney International Reports in Focus: Annual Highlights SumitMohan Speaker Columbia UniversityUnited States Kidney International Reports in Focus: Annual Highlights AnnaFrancis Speaker University of QueenslandAustralia Q and A Celebrating Excellence: Best Reviewer Awards Presentation BradRovin Speaker The Ohio State UniversityUnited States Recognizing the Best: Basic Science Awards for Early Career Researchers VeronicaMiguel Speaker Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular ResearchSpain Recognizing the Best: Clinical Science Awards for Early Career Researchers MuzamilHassan Speaker Department of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, NigeriaNigeria Recognizing the Best: ISN-KI Editorial Fellows Awards GermaineWong Speaker University of SydneyAustralia Champa Hall 304	Pursuing Global Equitable Access to Peritoneal Dialysis: ISN-ISPD Joint Session AdrianLiew Chair Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, SingaporeSingapore AnuragGupta Chair India SimonDavies Chair Keele UniversityUnited Kingdom Peritoneal Dialysis: A Global Epidemiological Perspective RajnishMehrotra Speaker University of WashingtonUnited States What’s Stopping PD Use in South Asia? PritiMeena Speaker All india institute of medical sciences-BhubaneswarIndia International Home Dialysis Consortium (IHDC) Initiatives: Expanding Global Access to Peritoneal Dialysis EdwinaBrown Speaker Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustUnited Kingdom Empowering Nurses to Support Growth of Peritoneal Dialysis Programs ReenaGeorge Speaker Christian Medical College Vellore, Tamil Nadu, IndiaIndia Q&A Gulmohar Hall 302	Making the Case: Investing in Kidney Care for Equity and Access AKBhalla Chair Sir Ganga Ram Hospital New DelhiIndia ElenaZakharova Chair Elena Zakharova, Botkin Hospital, Moscow, RussiaRussia MarinaWainstein Chair Academia Nacional de Medicina de Buenos AiresArgentina Empowering Kidney Care Through Advocacy: Strategies and Success Stories LauraSola Speaker Dialysis Center, CASMU-IAMPP Uruguay How to Convince Your Health Minister to Invest in CKD Prevention Elliot KorantengTannor Speaker Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana Toward Removal of Socioeconomic Inequities in Kidney Care and Better Outcomes for Children ArpanaIyengar Speaker ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, BANGALOREIndia How Do We Advocate for Better Access to Kidney Transplantation Worldwide? IkechiOkpechi Speaker University of AlbertaCanada Q&A Kumudini Hall 301	Renal Resilience - Recent Advances in Clinical Knowledge and Future Treatment of Rare Orphan Diseases; ISN-CSN Joint Session ArvindConjeevaram Chair Head - Nephrology Dept, Trustwell Hospitals, Bangalore India DebasishBanerjee Chair St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation TrUnited Kingdom How Do I Treat Renal Complications in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease? ClaireSharpe Speaker University of Nottingham and King's College Hospital, LondonUnited Kingdom iPSCs to Model Rare Kidney Diseases for Drug Discovery: The Examples of FSGS and ADPKD ArielaBenigni Speaker Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, ItalyItaly Kidney Multiome-based Genetic Scorecard Reveals Convergent Coding and Regulatory Variants KatalinSusztak Speaker University of PennsylvaniaUnited States Primary Hyperoxaluria: A Hope for Gene Therapy? YaacovFrishberg Speaker Israel Q&A Neelkamal Hall 305	Key Issues in Transplantation in India: Challenges and Opportunities. ISN-Indian SN Joint Session AlanFernandes Almeida Chair PD Hinduja Hospital & Medical Research Center, MumbaiIndia SreelathaMelemadathil Chair Government Medical College, KozhikodeIndia TB in Transplant Candidates and Recipients: Diagnosis and Treatment Shyam BihariBansal Speaker Department of Nephrology, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, IndiaIndia Bringing in Personalized Medicine Approaches to Kidney Transplantation: What Is Possible Harbir SinghKohli Speaker Professor & Head of Nephrology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, IndiaIndia Kidney Transplantation in Children: What Are the Special Issues and How to Navigate Them? PriyaVerghese Speaker pverghese@luriechildrens.orgProfessor, Division ChiefUnited States Bringing Equity to Transplantation: Barriers, Challenges and Triumphs NatarajanGOPALAKRISHNAN Speaker srigola751@yahoo.comIndia Q and A Parijat Hall 201
11:15 a.m. 12 p.m.	Big Data Lab 4 - Link Kidney Genetics and Genomics in Experimental Research: NephQTL Big Data Lab	Inside iNET-CKD: Uncovering the Power of Cohort Studies to Understand Ckd Progression and Complications MaartenTaal Spotlight Chairperson University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom RobertoPecoits Filho Spotlight Chairperson Arbor Research Collaborative for HealthUnited States Introducing iNET-CKD: Harnessing Global Cohorts to Transform CKD Research MaartenTaal Spotlight Speaker University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom Exploring iNET-CKD Cohorts: Key Findings from iNET-CKD Studies RobertoPecoits Filho Spotlight Speaker Arbor Research Collaborative for HealthUnited States Collaborative Opportunities in CKD Research: Leveraging the iNET-CKD Platform AdeeraLevin Spotlight Speaker University of British Columbia and Providence Health CareCanada Q and A Spotlight One (Exhibition)	Artificial vs Natural Intelligence in Nephrology with the ISN Emerging Leaders ChimezieOkwuonu Spotlight Chairperson Federal Medical CenterNigeria DanielO'Hara Spotlight Chairperson NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, AustraliaAustralia Spotlight Two (Amphitheatre, level 5)
11:45 a.m. 12:45 p.m.	Plenary Session 3: Environmental Stressors and Adaptation Mechanisms: From Marine Organism to (Kidney) Health Care (Tamar Lotan, Israel) AlessiaFornoni Chair University of Miami United States Narayan Prasad Chair Sanjay gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India India VivekanandJha Chair George Institute for Global Health IndiaIndia Alfred Newton Richards Award ArielaBenigni Awardee Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, ItalyItaly Environmental Stressors and Adaptation Mechanisms: From Marine Organism to (Kidney) Health Care. Claude Amiel Lecture TamarLotan Speaker University of HaifaIsrael Fellowship Program Presentation VivekanandJha Chair George Institute for Global Health IndiaIndia Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall
1 p.m. 2 p.m.	Industry Symposium Amaltas Hall B101-A	Industry Symposium Amaltas Hall B101-B	Industry Symposium Champa Hall 304	Industry Symposium Gulmohar Hall 302	Industry Symposium Kumudini Hall 301	Industry Symposium Neelkamal Hall 305	Industry Symposium Parijat Hall 201
1:15 p.m. 2:15 p.m.	The Kidney Tank 2.0 - The Indian Version. Joint session: ISN, NephJC and NECI DilushiWijayaratne Spotlight Chairperson Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri LankaSri Lanka FernandaArce Spotlight Chairperson Mexico Augusto CesarSoares dos Santos Junior Spotlight Speaker Hospital das Clinicas, UFMG; Fac Ciências MedicasBrazil ManjushaYadla Spotlight Speaker Professor and Head , Nephrology , Gandhi Medical College , HYDERABAD, INDIA India MythriShankar Spotlight Speaker Institute of NephrourologyIndia SwapnilHiremath Spotlight Speaker University of OttawaCanada Spotlight One (Exhibition)
2:15 p.m. 3:45 p.m.	Is the Future Now? Precision Medicine, Omics and AI for Kidney Health JolantaMalyszko Chair Medical University of Warsaw, PolandPoland ValentineLobo Chair Nephrology Unit, King Edward Memorial Hospital, PuneIndia Deciphering the Molecular Development of Kidney Disease: Transition From AKI to CKD SanjayJain Speaker Washington University School of MedicineUnited States KidGen Consortium - Integrating Genomic Medicine Into Care AndrewMallett Speaker JCU & THHSAustralia Metadata Ontology, Knowledge Integration, and Kidney Precision Medicine MatthiasKretzler Speaker University of MichiganUnited States Kidney Health Professionals and AI - Pioneers or Passive Users? GirishNadkarni Speaker Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States Q&A Amaltas Hall B101-A	Is it All Fluid? Dialysis Dynamics - HD, HDF, PD Arpita Roychaudhuri Chair India DibyaSingh Shah Chair Institute of Medicine Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital Nepal Lori-AnnFisher Chair University of the West Indies, MonaJamaica Blood Pressure Management in Dialysis: Is it All Fluid? SandipMitra Speaker Manchester University Hospitals and University of Manchester, UKUnited Kingdom What Is a Pragmatic Approach Toward Hemodiafiltration in a Resource-limited Setting? SandeepMahajan Speaker All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi India What Adult Nephrologists Need to Know About Pediatric Dialysis RukshanaShroff Speaker MD, FRCPCH, PhDUnited Kingdom PD in Heart Failure AliAbu-Alfa Speaker American University of Beirut and Yale UniversityLebanon Q&A Amaltas Hall B101-B	Looking into the Crystal Ball – Where Will We Be 5 Years from Now? RajkumarSharma Chair Director and Head of Department of Nephrology, Medanta Hospital, Lucknow India Swetha RaniKanduri Chair Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LAUnited States Evaluating Kidney Allograft Dysfunction SumitMohan Speaker Columbia UniversityUnited States Advances in Glomerular Disease Treatment JonathanBarratt Speaker University of Leicester, Leicester, UKUnited Kingdom Risk Prediction in AKI and CKD NavdeepTangri Speaker University of Manitoba, SOGH Chronic Disease Innovation CentreCanada Prioritizing Patient-friendly Dialysis EdwinaBrown Speaker Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustUnited Kingdom Glomerular Disease Diagnostics SanjeevSethi Speaker Mayo ClinicUnited States Q&A Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall	Understanding and Managing Renal-Respiratory Critical Conjunctions ManjushaYadla Chair Professor and Head , Nephrology , Gandhi Medical College , HYDERABAD, INDIA India Muhammad Rafiqul Alam Chair Bangladesh R KasiVisweswaran Chair Ananthapuri Hospitals and Research Institute, Trivandrum INDIAIndia Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and the Kidney FaeqHusain-Syed Speaker University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Giessen, GermanyGermany Cellular Plasticity in Pulmonary Fibrosis: Implications for Finding Treatment and Understanding Kidney Fibrosis SahajalDhooria Speaker India Managing Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - What Do the Guidelines Say? VladimirTesar Speaker Charles University, PragueCzech Republic Pulmonary Infections and Kidney Injury in ICUs RolandoClaure Del Granado Speaker Division of Nephrology, Hospital Obrero No 2 - Caja Nacional de Salud, Cochabamba Bolivia Q&A Champa Hall 304	Navigating Pregnancy and Kidney Disease: Risks, Benefits, and Global Insights. ISN-WIN/WIN India Joint Session LizLightstone Chair Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom RashaDarwish Chair Kasr Aleiny medical school , Cairo UniversityEgypt UrmilaAnandh Chair Amrita Hospitals, Faridabad, Delhi NCRIndia Patient Presentation Pregnancy-related AKI – a Lethal Problem DIVYABAJPAI Speaker Professor, Department of Nephrology, Seth G.S.M.C. and K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai, IndiaIndia aHUS in Pregnancy - What Do We Know and What Can We Do? AnujaJava Speaker WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN ST. LOUISUnited States Using Pregnancy to Initiate Long-term Kidney Care for Women SaraladeviNaicker Speaker University of the Witwatersrand South Africa Developmental Origins of Kidney Disease: It’s All About Mother KateBramham Speaker King's College LondonUnited Kingdom Panel Discussion with Speakers: How to Change Things? How to Raise Awareness? Gulmohar Hall 302	Speed Dating with KI/KIR Editors BradRovin Chair The Ohio State UniversityUnited States GermaineWong Chair University of SydneyAustralia PierreRonco Chair Hôpital TenonFrance Introduction PierreRonco Speaker Hôpital TenonFrance Translational Science/Genomics ChristophKuppe Speaker Department of Nephrology, RWTH University Aachen, GermanyGermany KrzysztofKiryluk Speaker Columbia UniversityUnited States Discovery Science ReikoInagi Speaker The University of Tokyo Graduate School of MedicineJapan VeronicaMiguel Speaker Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular ResearchSpain Clinical Trials BradRovin Speaker The Ohio State UniversityUnited States Crossing the Lines to ‘Acceptance’ in High Impact Kidney Journals PierreRonco Speaker Hôpital TenonFrance SumitMohan Speaker Columbia UniversityUnited States Epidemiology/Stats/Policy Forum AnnaFrancis Speaker University of QueenslandAustralia GermaineWong Speaker University of SydneyAustralia MuzamilHassan Speaker Department of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, NigeriaNigeria Kesar Hall 202	Next-Gen Perspectives Debate: Will AI Replace Nephrologists in the Future? AakashShingada Chair India KornchanokVareesangthip Chair Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, ThailandThailand Winston Wing ShingFung Chair Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong KongHong Kong, China Next-Gen Perspectives Debate: Will AI Replace Nephrologists in the Future? AlejandroGarcia-Rivera Speaker Hospital General Regional 46Mexico IntissarHaddiya Speaker Department of nephrology Faculty of medicine and Pharmacy of Oujda Mohammed First UniversityMorocco Kyung DonYoo Speaker Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine / Deputy Director, Disaster Preparedness and Response Committee, The Korean Society of Nephrology Korea (Republic of) MarinaWainstein Speaker Academia Nacional de Medicina de Buenos AiresArgentina Kumudini Hall 301	Advancing Global Transplant Equity: A Health-systems and Patient-centered Approach. ISN-TTS/WIT Joint session DominiqueMartin Chair Deakin UniversityAustralia PINAKI MUKHOPADHYAY Chair DCH.MD.DM (Nephro, PGI Chandigarh), FICP, FISN, FASN, FRCP(London), Professor and Head, Department of Nephrology,NRS MEDICAL COLLEGE KOLKATA India TobyCoates Chair Australia Reviewing Transplantation in Tanzania: Barriers to Expansion and Insights for Other African Countries FransiaMushi Speaker Muhimbili University of Health and Allied SciencesTanzania The Role of Infectious Disease Expertise in Improving Utilization and Preserving Grafts JonathanHand Speaker Ochsner HealthUnited States Day-to-Day Challenges in Providing Kidney Replacement Therapy for Women in Low-income Countries PritiMeena Speaker All india institute of medical sciences-BhubaneswarIndia Transplantation in Thailand: In-depth Review of Current Activities and Progress AdisornLumpaopong Speaker On Behalf of Thai Transplantation SocietyThailand Q&A Neelkamal Hall 305	What’s Next in Kidney Care Research? Innovations and Clinical Trials on the Horizon AdeeraLevin Chair University of British Columbia and Providence Health CareCanada AndreaViecelli Chair University of QueenslandAustralia Ajit singhNarula Chair India Novel Trial Designs in Nephrology: Innovations and Structures MegJardine Speaker NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, AustraliaAustralia What’s New in Clinical Trials? DavidWheeler Speaker University College LondonUnited Kingdom Value of Different Outcomes in the Era of Precision Medicine RobertoPecoits Filho Speaker Arbor Research Collaborative for HealthUnited States Conducting Trials in Low and Middle-income Countries SoumitaBagchi Speaker Professor, Department of Nephrology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New DelhiIndia Innovations in Pediatric Nephrology Discovery and Clinical Trial Conduct ArpanaIyengar Speaker ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, BANGALOREIndia Q&A Parijat Hall 201
3:45 p.m. 4:30 p.m.	Big Data Lab 5 - Discover the Power of Single-Cell Analysis linked with Clinical Data: CELLxGENE Big Data Lab	Industry Spotlight Session Spotlight One (Exhibition)	Advancing Kidney Research with Registries, Collaborative Efforts, and Impactful Stories (ISN-SharE-RR) FergusCaskey Spotlight Chairperson University of Bristol, UKUnited Kingdom MariaPippias Spotlight Chairperson University of BristolUnited Kingdom Unlocking Insights with ISN-SharE-RR: Advancing Kidney Research through Global Registries FergusCaskey Spotlight Speaker University of Bristol, UKUnited Kingdom Driving Collaboration in Kidney Health: Toolkit and Resources from ISN-SharE-RR MariaPippias Spotlight Speaker University of BristolUnited Kingdom Decisions I made while setting up the South African Renal Registry Mogamat RazeenDavids Spotlight Speaker Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg HospitalSouth Africa Panel Discussion with Fergus, Maria & Razeen Spotlight Two (Amphitheatre, level 5)
4:15 p.m. 5:15 p.m.	Hot Debate - To D or Not to D? Do All Patients With CKD Need Vitamin D Supplementation? FergusCaskey Chair University of Bristol, UKUnited Kingdom OMKUMAR Chair INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, PATNAIndia UmeshKhanna Chair MD DNB (NEPHROLOGY), India Hot Debate: To D or Not to D? All Patients With CKD Need Vitamin D Supplementation - PRO HanneJoergensen Speaker Aarhus UniversityDenmark Hot Debate: To D or Not to D? All Patients With CKD Need Vitamin D Supplementation - CON Mario GennaroCozzolino Speaker University of MilanItaly Amaltas Hall B101-B	Hot Debate - The KDIGO BP Targets in CKD Are (Un)Achievable and (Un)Realistic ArpanaIyengar Chair ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, BANGALOREIndia BeatrizFernandez-Fernandez Chair Hospital Universitario Fundación Jimenez Díaz Spain Venkata DakshinamurtyKaligotla Chair Mahatma Sri Ramchandra Centenary Memorial Hospital, Vijayanagar Colony, Hyderabad, INDIAIndia Hot Debate: The KDIGO BP Targets in CKD Are Unachievable and Unrealistic - PRO SwapnilHiremath Speaker University of OttawaCanada Hot Debate: The KDIGO BP Targets in CKD Are Unachievable and Unrealistic - CON IndranilDasgupta Speaker Consultant Nephrologist, University Hospitals Birmingham, UKUnited Kingdom Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall	Connecting Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic Dots: Holistic Approaches to Patient Care Denis GeorgesTeuwafeu Chair University of Buea, Faculty of Health Sciences Cameroon RobertKalyesubula Chair Makerere, UniversityUganda RobertoPecoits Filho Chair Arbor Research Collaborative for HealthUnited States A Nephrologist Perspective on the Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome JananiRangaswami Speaker Professor of Medicine, George Washington University School of MedicineUnited States Optimizing CKD Management in the Context of Diabetes and Obesity RobertoPecoits Filho Speaker Arbor Research Collaborative for HealthUnited States Combining Therapies for Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic Conditions: An Integrative Approach KatherineTuttle Speaker University of Washington School of Medicine, Division of NephrologyUnited States Q&A Champa Hall 304	Implementing Nephrogenetics Across the Globe: ISN-IPNA Joint Session LarisaPrikhodina Chair Professor of Pediatrics, Chair of Division of Inherited & Acquired Kidney Diseases, Veltishev Research Clinical Institute for Pediatrics & Children Surgery, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical UniversityRussia NeveenSoliman Chair Center of Pediatric Nephrology and Transplantation, Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo UniversityEgypt TarunJeloka Chair MANIPAL HOSPITALSIndia Mapping Nephrogenomic Variation in the Middle East NeveenSoliman Speaker Center of Pediatric Nephrology and Transplantation, Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo UniversityEgypt Implementing Nephrogenetic Diagnostics in Low-resource Settings Kar HuiNg Speaker Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of SingaporeSingapore Comprehensive Nephrogenetic Diagnostics in Europe: Where Do We Stand in 2025? Albertien M.Van Eerde Speaker Department of Genetics, UMC Utrecht, The NetherlandsNetherlands Q and A Gulmohar Hall 302	Seeing the Kidney Clearly: Solo Treatments and Orchestrated Care Through Evidence, Community, and Policy BrianPereira Chair United States GhadaAnkawi Chair King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia MegJardine Chair NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, AustraliaAustralia Addressing Challenges: Early CKD Detection Strategies and the Role of Research and Development in Global Kidney Health AdeeraLevin Speaker University of British Columbia and Providence Health CareCanada A Collaborative Approach to Detecting Kidney Disease Early ThomasBlakeman Speaker The University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom Harnessing Digital Technology: Innovative Tools for Early CKD Detection and Management Chinta RamaKrishna Speaker Chinta Rama Krishna, Vedanta HospitalsIndia Q and A Kesar Hall 202	Kidney Disease Prediction and Prevention: Evolving Toward a Kidney Health Revolution AlejandroGarcia-Rivera Chair Hospital General Regional 46Mexico AnuradhaRaman Chair India SabineKaram Chair University of MinnesotaUnited States Managing Kidney Disease in Diabetes - Is it the Best of Times? PeterRossing Speaker Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen Denmark Implementation of Risk Prediction Equations to Optimize CKD Care - the Present and the Future NavdeepTangri Speaker University of Manitoba, SOGH Chronic Disease Innovation CentreCanada Multisectoral Action for Kidney Disease Prevention Sri LekhaTummalapalli Speaker Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell MedicineUnited States Q&A Kumudini Hall 301	What Should I Do? Applying the Declaration of Istanbul Principles to Your Clinical Transplant Practice. ISN-DICG Joint Session KamalSud Chair The University of SydneyAustralia Maria AmaliaMatamoros Chair Caja Costarricense del Seguro social Costa Rica SanjayNagral Chair ex co chair ; Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group India My Patient Wants to Travel Abroad for a Kidney Transplant JagbirGill Speaker University of British ColumbiaCanada My Patient Received a Kidney Transplant Abroad RuthRahamimov Speaker Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, IsraelIsrael How to Deal With Suspicious Transplant Cases in Your Organization or Country Jonathan WalaAmeyo Speaker Kenya Renal AssociationKenya From Identification to Resolution: A Guide to Managing Suspicious Transplant Cases ThomasMueller Speaker SwisstransplantSwitzerland Q&A Neelkamal Hall 305	Bridging Gaps in Kidney Disease Diagnostics: Striving for Equity DanielO'Hara Chair NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, AustraliaAustralia MythriShankar Chair Institute of NephrourologyIndia YannickNlandu Chair Kinshasa University HospitalDemocratic Republic of Congo Panel Discussion: Featuring an Expert in Genetics Becky MingyaoMa Speaker Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Hong KongHong Kong, China Panel Discussion: Featuring a Renal Pathologist MarekKollar Speaker Czech Republic Panel Discussion: Featuring an Expert in CKD Care From India PritiMeena Speaker All india institute of medical sciences-BhubaneswarIndia Panel Discussion:Featuring an Expert in CKD Care From Fiji Yogeshni Chandra Speaker Fiji Panel Discussion: Featuring an Expert in CKD Care From Nigeria ChimezieOkwuonu Speaker Federal Medical CenterNigeria Q and A Parijat Hall 201
5:15 p.m. 6 p.m.	Big Data Lab 6 Big Data Lab
5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m.	Poster Session Exhibition Hall	Meet the Experts Kesar Hall 202	ISN Programs Abstract Awards TusharVachharajani Spotlight Chairperson John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center / Wayne State University School of MedicineUnited States Do Transforming Growth Factor-β (TGF-β) Isoforms Predict Chronic Kidney Disease Progression Alfred JacksonMeremo Spotlight Speaker Tanzania Epidemiology Of Vascular Access And Role Played By Nephrologists In Nepal NabinBasnet Spotlight Speaker Nepal Prevalence Of Chronic Kidney Disease In Sri Lanka RajithaAbeysekera Spotlight Speaker Sri Lanka Sodium Gradient And All-Cause Mortality In Incident Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients: Results From The Monitoring Dialysis Outcomes (Mondo) Initiative Felix-MihaiMaralescu Spotlight Speaker Romania JC Virus Is Underestimated In Kidney Transplant Recipients MirhaPjanic Spotlight Speaker Bosnia and Herzegovina Spotlight One (Exhibition)	AI in Nephrology: Hands-On Training Workshop Augusto CesarSoares dos Santos Junior Spotlight Chairperson Hospital das Clinicas, UFMG; Fac Ciências MedicasBrazil HanjieZhang Spotlight Speaker Hanjie.Zhang@rriny.comUnited States PETERKOTANKO Spotlight Speaker United States Spotlight Two (Amphitheatre, level 5)

Sunday, February 9, 2025

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9 a.m. 10:30 a.m.	Metabolic Crossroads: Kidneys, Liver Disease, and the Gut GloriaAshuntantang Chair University of Bamenda, CameroonCameroon Narayan Prasad Chair Sanjay gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India India Dr Sree BhushanRaju Chair India Hepatorenal Syndrome and New Treatments for AKI in Cirrhosis Swetha RaniKanduri Speaker Ochsner Health, New Orleans, LAUnited States Do Gut Microbiota Contribute to Kidney Disease? If so, What Can We Do About it? GrietGlorieux Speaker UGentBelgium What Should Nephrologists Know About Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Fatty Liver Disease Angela Yee-MoonWang Speaker Hong Kong/SingaporeSingapore Measuring Kidney Function in Liver Disease - Pitfalls and Solutions SmitaDivyaveer Speaker POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, CHANDIGARH, INDIAIndia Q&A Amaltas Hall B101-A	The Ageing Kidney: Of Neurons and Nephrons AnupmaKaul Chair Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow , IndiaIndia AshwaniGupta Chair India Mohamad Bassam Said Chair Farah Association for Child with Kidney Disease in SyriaSyrian Arab Republic Defining Accelerated Kidney Ageing AlbertoOrtiz Speaker IIS-Fundacion Jimenez Diaz UAM, Madrid, SpainSpain Accelerated Biological Ageing in CKD: Drivers and Potential Therapeutic Interventions MotokoYanagita Speaker Kyoto UniversityJapan The Kidney-Brain Connection MarionPépin Speaker INSERM, CESP UMR 1018, Clinical epidemiology, Paris Saclay University, Villejuif, France/ Geriatric Department, Ambroise Paré Hospital, APHP, Versailles St Quentin University, Boulogne ,FranceFrance Cognitive Impairment in Kidney Disease VanitaJassal Speaker University Health Network, Toronto CANADACanada Q&A Amaltas Hall B101-B		HIT! High Impact Clinical Trials – Why and How DavidWheeler Chair University College LondonUnited Kingdom Winston Wing ShingFung Chair Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong KongHong Kong, China What Have We Learned From CONVINCE? PeterBlankestijn Oral Abstract Presenter University Medical Center UtrechtNetherlands Design of the ZEUS Trial: Interleukin-6 Inhibition With Ziltivekimab for Cardiovascular Protection in Chronic Kidney Disease VladoPerkovic Oral Abstract Presenter University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaAustralia A Phase 1/2 Trial of Zigakibart in IgA Nephropathy (IgAN) JonathanBarratt Oral Abstract Presenter University of Leicester, Leicester, UKUnited Kingdom Observational Cohort With Embedded Randomized Controlled Trials to Study Pregnancy-Associated Progression of Renal Disease: A Feasibility Study of Dietary Nitrate (Beetroot Juice) to Protect Kidney Function in Pregnant Women With Chronic Kidney Disease KateBramham Oral Abstract Presenter King's College LondonUnited Kingdom Design of Randomized Embedded Adaptive Platform Clinical Trial in South Asian Kidney Biopsy-Proven Primary Glomerular Diseases: Multi-Center, Multi-Arm and Multi-Stage Selvin Sundar RajMani Oral Abstract Presenter Associate Professor in Nephrology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, IndiaIndia SuceenaAlexander Oral Abstract Presenter Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall		Enhancing Prevention and Control of Chronic Kidney Conditions and Other Non-Communicable Diseases/Co-Morbidities Through Meaningful Involvement of Lived Experience Champions and Communities MonikaArora Chair HRIDAYIndia Session Overview and Context MonikaArora Speaker HRIDAYIndia Pace-setting Presentation: Role of Civil Society in Promoting Leadership of Lived Experience Champions to Augment NCD Services and Programs RadhikaShrivastav Speaker India Keynote Presentation Inclusion of Chronic Kidney Diseases in India's National Programme on Prevention and Control of NCDs (NP-NCD): opportunity for enhanced community engagement ShikhaVardhan Speaker India Panel Discussion: Experience of a Lived Experience Champion in the Management of CKD and Other Underlying Conditions Magdalena Machalska Speaker Belgium PradeepJoshi Speaker India SeemaBali Speaker Healthy India AllianceIndia YangchenDolma Speaker Senior Nursing Officer, AIIMS New Delhi India Open Discussion Summary of Session Highlights MonikaArora Chair HRIDAYIndia Gulmohar Hall 302		Make It Work Better for Failing Kidneys with Sustainable Care AjaySingh Chair United States ManjuriSharma Chair Prof. & Head, Dept of Nephrology, Gauhati Medical College & Hospital, Guwahati, AssamIndia Toward a Plant-based Diet in CKD Juan-JesusCarrero Speaker Karolinska InstitutetSweden Why Peritoneal Dialysis Uptake Is Low in Many World Regions and How Can We Fix it? Magdalena Madero Speaker Chief of Nephrology, Instituto Nacional de CardiolMexico Improving Dialysis Quality: A Hub-and-Spoke Network ManishaSahay Speaker Professor and Head, Department of Nephrology, Osmania Medical college and General hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, IndiaIndia Kidney Supportive Care in a Low-resource Setting NicolaWearne Speaker Groote Schuur Hospital / university of Cape TownSouth Africa A Working Partnership - Shared Decision-making in Nephrology Ana Elizabeth pradofigueiredo Speaker Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Brazil Q&A Neelkamal Hall 305
10 a.m. 10:30 a.m.	How to Facilitate Learning Nephrology Among Medical Students, Residents and Fellows Using Hands-On Experiences Carmen ElenaCervantes Spotlight Chairperson United States MarekKollar Spotlight Chairperson Czech Republic MythriShankar Spotlight Chairperson Institute of NephrourologyIndia Spotlight Two (Amphitheatre, level 5)
10:30 a.m. 11 a.m.	Parenthood in Nephrology: Opportunities and Challenges Spotlight Two (Amphitheatre, level 5)
11 a.m. 12 p.m.	Equitable Kidney Health- Making it Part of The Day Job GavinDreyer Chair Barts Health NHS TrustUnited Kingdom Time to Act on Kidney Health Inequalities in the UK Shivani Sharma Speaker United Kingdom Targeting Equitable Kidney Health Through the Global Kidney Health Atlas ErangaWijewickrama Speaker Faculty of Medicine, University of ColomboSri Lanka Bridging the Access Gap in Rural Communities RobertKalyesubula Speaker Makerere, UniversityUganda Amaltas Hall B101-A		HIT! High Impact Clinical Trials – Study Design DilushiWijayaratne Chair Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri LankaSri Lanka JAIPRAKASHTIWARI Chair Professor and Head, Department of Nephrology, Goa Medical College, Goa, India ;MD, DM Nephrology, FISN, FISOTIndia Findings and Lessons from the PARADIGM Research Consensus Conference AdeeraLevin Speaker University of British Columbia and Providence Health CareCanada Findings and Lessons from ALIGN Study Design HernánTrimarchi Speaker HOSPITAL BRITÁNICO DE BUENOS AIRESArgentina Findings and Lessons from RESOLVE Study Design MegJardine Speaker NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, AustraliaAustralia Findings and Lessons from LIFT Study DebasishBanerjee Oral Abstract Presenter St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation TrUnited Kingdom Q and A Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall		Quiz Session: Indian Society Early Career Nephrologists ArunkumarSubbiah Host All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New DelhiIndia MedhaviGautam Host MD, GlomCon Fellow, NephEdc Intern , ISN member , IndiaIndia SayaliThakare Host Seth GSMC and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, IndiaIndia Gulmohar Hall 302		MedEd in the Modern Era: #NephJC at the #ISNWCN ArvindConjeevaram Chair Head - Nephrology Dept, Trustwell Hospitals, Bangalore India Narayan Prasad Chair Sanjay gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India India UrmilaAnandh Chair Amrita Hospitals, Faridabad, Delhi NCRIndia Tweets, Skeets, and Podcasts: Harnessing 21st Century Tools for Medical Education CristinaPopa Speaker NephJCRomania Don't Believe Everything You Read: #NephJC style Critical Appraisal SwapnilHiremath Speaker University of OttawaCanada Is A Picture Truly Worth a 1000 Words? Visual Abstracts and Infographics DIVYABAJPAI Speaker Professor, Department of Nephrology, Seth G.S.M.C. and K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai, IndiaIndia Q and A Neelkamal Hall 305
12:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m.	Plenary Session 4: Diabetes and Adipocytokines (Takashi Kadowaki, Japan) MarcelloTonelli Chair University of CalgaryCanada MasaomiNangaku Chair Japan MegJardine Chair NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, AustraliaAustralia Diabetes and Adipocytokines. Brenner/Dirks Lecture TakashiKadowaki Speaker Toranomon HospitalJapan Message from Outgoing ISN President MasaomiNangaku Chair Japan Message from Incoming ISN President MarcelloTonelli Chair University of CalgaryCanada Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall

Thursday, February 6, 2025

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9 a.m. 11 a.m.	Hands-on Masterclass in Nephrology: Interventional Nephrology, Dialysis, and POCUS Course - Critical Care and Kidney Biopsy AndrewMoses Chair Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell HealthUnited States IrmaTchokhonelidze Chair Tbilisi State Medical UniversityGeorgia JadrankaButurović Ponikvar Chair University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaSlovenia MayuriTrivedi Chair Senior consultant and Head Department of Nephrology LTMG hospital,Mumbai,IndiaIndia SourabhSharma Chair Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, IndiaIndia Case Study Part 1 and POCUS Kidney and Lungs BLUE Protocol AndrewMoses Speaker Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell HealthUnited States Native and Transplanted Kidney Biopsy JadrankaButurović Ponikvar Speaker University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaSlovenia MayuriTrivedi Speaker Senior consultant and Head Department of Nephrology LTMG hospital,Mumbai,IndiaIndia CKRT vs. SLED: Pros and Cons SourabhSharma Speaker Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, IndiaIndia Hands-on Training: Kidney Biopsy JadrankaButurović Ponikvar Speaker University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaSlovenia MayuriTrivedi Speaker Senior consultant and Head Department of Nephrology LTMG hospital,Mumbai,IndiaIndia Hands-on Training: CKRT and SLED Machine SourabhSharma Speaker Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, IndiaIndia Hands-on Training: POCUS Kidney and Lung With BLUE Protocol AndrewMoses Speaker Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell HealthUnited States HildaElena Fernandez Speaker United States Amaltas Hall B101-A		Renal Pathology Course: Updates on Regional Diseases CarmenAvila Casado Chair University of Toronto, UHNCanada GeetikaSingh Chair All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India India SuryaSeshan Chair Weill Cornell MedicineUnited States IgA Nephropathy and IgA Vasculitis MarkHaas Speaker Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterUnited States Kidney Lesions in Tropical Infections AhmedKalebi Speaker Dr. Kalebi Labs (DKL) LimitedKenya Controversies in Podocytopathies CarmenAvila Casado Speaker University of Toronto, UHNCanada Pregnancy Related Renal Disease AgnesFogo Speaker United States Q and A Amaltas Hall B101-B		Navigating Kidney Care Symposium: From Guidelines to Practice, Personalized Care, and Quality of Life - Managing Transitions in Transplant and Promoting Adherence Ana Elizabeth pradofigueiredo Chair Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Brazil ElaineBowes Chair King's College Hospital United Kingdom ZehraAydin Chair Istanbul Atlas UniversityTürkiye Navigating Post-transplant Dialysis: What to Expect AngelaJackson Speaker Health New Zealand - Counties ManukauNew Zealand From Dialysis to Transplant: Guiding Children Through the Transition Sandhya VNair Speaker indian nursing councilIndia Meeting the Mark: Adherence Requirements for Transplant Success Janevan der Jeugd Speaker Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South AustraliaAustralia Q&A Champa Hall 304		Glomerular Disease Course: A Case-based Approach to Renal Histology and Nephrotic Syndrome AdrianLiew Chair Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, SingaporeSingapore SuceenaAlexander Chair Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Approach to Nephrotic Syndrome SuceenaAlexander Speaker Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Case Presentation and Discussion 1 HeatherReich Speaker University of Toronto, University Health NetworkCanada Case Presentation and Discussion 2 Raja Ramachandran Speaker Associate ProfessorIndia Gulmohar Hall 302		Conservative Kidney Management Course: Core Principles and Symptom Management FrankBrennan Chair St George HospitalAustralia NandiniVallath Chair India SaraDavison Chair University of AlbertaCanada Introduction to Kidney Supportive Care (KSC) and Conservative Kidney Management (CKM) SaraDavison Speaker University of AlbertaCanada Validating CKM: Evidence and Approaches BarnabyHole Speaker University of Bristol, UKUnited Kingdom Effective Strategies for Pharmacologic Pain Management in CKM SaraDavison Speaker University of AlbertaCanada Addressing Depression and Anxiety in CKM Patients PeaceBagasha Speaker Mulago National Referral HospitalUganda Q&A Kumudini Hall 301		Annual Review of Nephrology Course: Managing Kidney Failure KenarJhaveri Chair Northwell HealthUnited States MitchellRosner Chair Univeristy of Virginia HealthUnited States New Solutions to Anemia Management in Kidney Failure: The Role of HIF-PH Inhibitors JolantaMalyszko Speaker Medical University of Warsaw, PolandPoland New Solutions to Phosphorus Control in Kidney Failure: Achieving Patient Goals KrishnaswamySampathkumar Speaker Meenakshi Mission Hospital India Improving Volume and Hypertension Control in Kidney Failure: New Approaches to a Critical Issue? Angela Yee-MoonWang Speaker Hong Kong/SingaporeSingapore Q and A Neelkamal Hall 305
11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m.	Hands-on Masterclass in Nephrology: Interventional Nephrology, Dialysis, and POCUS Course - Hemodialysis and Complications AndrewMoses Chair Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell HealthUnited States IrmaTchokhonelidze Chair Tbilisi State Medical UniversityGeorgia JadrankaButurović Ponikvar Chair University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaSlovenia MayuriTrivedi Chair Senior consultant and Head Department of Nephrology LTMG hospital,Mumbai,IndiaIndia SourabhSharma Chair Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, IndiaIndia Case Study Part 2 and Cardiac POCUS AndrewMoses Speaker Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell HealthUnited States Dialysis Adequacy: Assessing and Improving Outcomes IrmaTchokhonelidze Speaker Tbilisi State Medical UniversityGeorgia Hemodialysis Catheter: Insertion, Exchange, Removal AnilAGARWAL Speaker University of California San Francisco, Fresno, USUnited States Hands-on Training: HD Catheters: Insertion, Exchange, Removal AnilAGARWAL Speaker University of California San Francisco, Fresno, USUnited States JeyarajBalasubramaniam Speaker Kidney Care Centre, Tirunelveli, IndiaIndia Hands-on Training: HD/HDF/Home HD Machines: What are the Treatment Options? IrmaTchokhonelidze Speaker Tbilisi State Medical UniversityGeorgia Hands-on Training: Cardiac POCUS AndrewMoses Speaker Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell HealthUnited States HildaElena Fernandez Speaker United States Amaltas Hall B101-A		Renal Pathology Course: Recent Advances in Kidney and Transplant Pathology CarmenAvila Casado Chair University of Toronto, UHNCanada GeetikaSingh Chair All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India India SuryaSeshan Chair Weill Cornell MedicineUnited States Mass Spectrometry for the Diagnosis of Renal Diseases SanjeevSethi Speaker Mayo ClinicUnited States Application of Digital Tools in Renal Pathology ArvydasLaurinavicius Speaker Vilnius UniversityLithuania The Importance of Medullary Lesions In Kidney Biopsies JorisRoelofs Speaker Amsterdam UMCNetherlands New Insights in Drug Induced Kidney Diseases SuryaSeshan Speaker Weill Cornell MedicineUnited States Q and A Amaltas Hall B101-B		Navigating Kidney Care Symposium: From Guidelines to Practice, Personalized Care, and Quality of Life: Prevention, Diabetic Patients and Acute Care Ana Elizabeth pradofigueiredo Chair Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Brazil ElaineBowes Chair King's College Hospital United Kingdom ZehraAydin Chair Istanbul Atlas UniversityTürkiye Enhancing Acute Care: Managing Late Referral Hemodialysis Ana Elizabeth pradofigueiredo Speaker Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Brazil Enhancing Acute Care: Managing Urgent Start Peritoneal Dialysis ElaineBowes Speaker King's College Hospital United Kingdom From Diabetes to Dialysis: Ensuring Smooth Care Transitions EveNatusch Speaker Nurse Practitioner Diabetes and Long-Term Conditions, Secondary Healthcare ServicesNew Zealand Better Together: Community Approaches to Preventing Chronic Kidney Disease SulakshnaBharadwaj Speaker INSTITUTE OF LIVER AND BILIARY SCIENCESIndia Q&A Champa Hall 304		Glomerular Disease Course - A Case-Based Approach: Nephritic Syndrome AdrianLiew Chair Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, SingaporeSingapore SuceenaAlexander Chair Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Approach to Nephritic Syndrome AdrianLiew Speaker Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, SingaporeSingapore Case Presentation and Discussion 3 JonathanBarratt Speaker University of Leicester, Leicester, UKUnited Kingdom Case Presentation and Discussion 4 LizLightstone Speaker Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom Case Presentation and Discussion 5 SuceenaAlexander Speaker Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Gulmohar Hall 302		Conservative Kidney Management Course: Navigating Symptoms and Metabolic Complications FrankBrennan Chair St George HospitalAustralia NandiniVallath Chair India SaraDavison Chair University of AlbertaCanada Managing CKD-associated Pruritus and Restless Legs Syndrome in CKM FrankBrennan Speaker St George HospitalAustralia Tackling Fatigue and Insomnia in CKM Patients AnujaDamani Speaker Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, ManipalIndia Managing Nausea and Vomiting in CKM: Best Practices ClaireDouglas Speaker NHS Tayside, Scotland, UKUnited Kingdom End-of-Life Transition in CKM: Care and Symptom Management NandiniVallath Speaker India Managing Metabolic Complications of CKD in CKM SaraDavison Speaker University of AlbertaCanada Q&A Kumudini Hall 301		Annual Review of Nephrology Course: Best Practices in Diabetic Kidney Disease Care KenarJhaveri Chair Northwell HealthUnited States MitchellRosner Chair Univeristy of Virginia HealthUnited States Clinical Trials Overview: Focus on GLP1a, MRA, and SGLT2 MaartenTaal Speaker University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom SGLT2i Versus GLP1a And/or MRA Versus SGLT2i, And/or Starting All Together: What Should the Clinician Do? My Approach KatherineTuttle Speaker University of Washington School of Medicine, Division of NephrologyUnited States SGLT2i Versus GLP1a And/or MRA Versus SGLT2i, And/or Starting All Together: What Should the Clinician Do? My Approach MadhukarMisra Speaker University of Missouri Columbia, USAUnited States Q and A Neelkamal Hall 305
1 p.m. 2:25 p.m.	Building a CKDu Research Methodology Toolbox, part 1 ErangaWijewickrama Chair Faculty of Medicine, University of ColomboSri Lanka Study Designs to Answer Research Questions in CKDu Magdalena Madero Speaker Chief of Nephrology, Instituto Nacional de CardiolMexico Distinguishing CKDu From Other Kidney Diseases in Research Studies SumitMohan Speaker Columbia UniversityUnited States Q and A Javakusum Hall 303				ISN SharE-RR - Sharing Expertise to Support the Set-up of Renal Registries: Inspiration from Established Registries in South Asia FergusCaskey Chair University of Bristol, UKUnited Kingdom MariaPippias Chair University of BristolUnited Kingdom The SharE-RR Toolkit MariaPippias Speaker University of BristolUnited Kingdom The South African Renal Registry: Re-Establishing After 20 Years' Dormancy and Recent Governance Lessons Mogamat RazeenDavids Speaker Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg HospitalSouth Africa The Bangladesh Renal Registry: Twenty Years Experience Covering HD, PD, and Transplant HarunUr Rashid Speaker Kidney Foundation Hospital and Research InstituteBangladesh The Indian Renal Registry: Establishing a Multi-centre Dialysis Registry SumaiyaArfin Speaker The George Institute for Global Health, IndiaIndia Q and A Kesar Hall 202				ISN Train The Trainer Program for Pregnancy and Kidney Disease - Update and Toolkit Launch MichelleHladunewich Chair Sunnybrook Health Sciences CentreCanada ShilpanjaliJesudason Chair Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide, AustraliaAustralia Welcome and Background on Obstetric Nephrology Evolution MichelleHladunewich Speaker Sunnybrook Health Sciences CentreCanada Overview of the TT Program and Toolkit Launch ShilpanjaliJesudason Speaker Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide, AustraliaAustralia Trainer Perspective GhadaAnkawi Speaker King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia Trainer Perspective DIVYABAJPAI Speaker Professor, Department of Nephrology, Seth G.S.M.C. and K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai, IndiaIndia Panel Discussion, Questions and Group Discussion Mogra Hall A 404
2:15 p.m. 4:15 p.m.	Hands-on Masterclass in Nephrology: Interventional Nephrology, Dialysis, and POCUS Course - Peritoneal Dialysis and Volume AndrewMoses Chair Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell HealthUnited States IrmaTchokhonelidze Chair Tbilisi State Medical UniversityGeorgia JadrankaButurović Ponikvar Chair University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaSlovenia MayuriTrivedi Chair Senior consultant and Head Department of Nephrology LTMG hospital,Mumbai,IndiaIndia SourabhSharma Chair Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, IndiaIndia Case Study Part 3 and VExUS Technique AndrewMoses Speaker Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell HealthUnited States PD Catheter Insertion KrishnaswamySampathkumar Speaker Meenakshi Mission Hospital India Urgent Initiation of PD: Challenges and Solutions BrettCullis Speaker University of Cape TownSouth Africa Hands-on Training: APD Machine Prescription Options IrmaTchokhonelidze Speaker Tbilisi State Medical UniversityGeorgia KrishnaswamySampathkumar Speaker Meenakshi Mission Hospital India Hands-on Training: PD Catheter Insertion BrettCullis Speaker University of Cape TownSouth Africa Hands-on Training: VExUS AndrewMoses Speaker Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell HealthUnited States HildaElena Fernandez Speaker United States Case 3 Amaltas Hall B101-A	Renal Pathology Course: Clinical-Pathologic Correlation Case Presentations CarmenAvila Casado Chair University of Toronto, UHNCanada GeetikaSingh Chair All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India India SuryaSeshan Chair Weill Cornell MedicineUnited States Nephrologist, Clinical Discussant - Case 1 SantoshVarughese Speaker Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Case 1 GeetikaSingh Speaker All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India India Nephrologist, Clinical Discussant - Case 2 SantoshVarughese Speaker Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Case 2 AnilaKurien Speaker Renopath, Center for Renal and Urological Pathology, Chennai, IndiaIndia Nephrologist, Clinical Discussant - Case 3 SantoshVarughese Speaker Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Case 3 JorisRoelofs Speaker Amsterdam UMCNetherlands Nephrologist, Clinical Discussant - Case 4 SantoshVarughese Speaker Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Case 4 CarmenAvila Casado Speaker University of Toronto, UHNCanada Nephrologist, Clinical Discussant - Case 5 SantoshVarughese Speaker Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Case 5 ArvydasLaurinavicius Speaker Vilnius UniversityLithuania Nephrologist, Clinical Discussant - Case 6 SantoshVarughese Speaker Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Case 6 MaheshaVankalakunti Speaker Manipal Hospitals, BengaluruIndia Amaltas Hall B101-B		Navigating Kidney Care Symposium: From Guidelines to Practice, Personalized Care, and Quality of Life: Supporting Patients at Home Ana Elizabeth pradofigueiredo Chair Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Brazil ElaineBowes Chair King's College Hospital United Kingdom ZehraAydin Chair Istanbul Atlas UniversityTürkiye How Frail Is Too Frail? Addressing Frailty in Home Hemodialysis Patients RachaelWalker Speaker University of Auckland, New ZealandNew Zealand Fostering Independence: Supporting Patients to Manage Home Dialysis AV-fistulas Fatimade Figueiredo Speaker United Kingdom Mastering Nutrition: Optimal Diet for Managing Diabetic Kidney Disease GurdeepKaur Speaker MSc, RDIndia Q&A Champa Hall 304		Glomerular Disease Course: Case-based Approach to Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis and Glomerular Diseases in Acute Kidney Injury AdrianLiew Chair Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, SingaporeSingapore SuceenaAlexander Chair Christian Medical College VelloreIndia Approach to Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis Raja Ramachandran Speaker Associate ProfessorIndia Case Presentation and Discussion 6 HernánTrimarchi Speaker HOSPITAL BRITÁNICO DE BUENOS AIRESArgentina Case Presentation and Discussion 7 Muh GeotWong Speaker Australia Case Presentation and Discussion 8 AdrianLiew Speaker Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, SingaporeSingapore Gulmohar Hall 302		Conservative Kidney Management Course: Shared Decision-making, Communication Skills and Capacity Building for End-of-Life Care FrankBrennan Chair St George HospitalAustralia NandiniVallath Chair India SaraDavison Chair University of AlbertaCanada Shared Decision-making and Cultural Considerations in CKM SaharKoubar Speaker University of MinnesotaUnited States Essential Communication Skills and Advance Care Planning in CKM (Interactive Workshop) AmarBansal Speaker University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine United States Practical Challenges in Implementing CKM: Cultural and Resource Considerations From India NandiniVallath Speaker India Q&A Kumudini Hall 301		Annual Review of Nephrology Course: Electrolyte Management in the ICU KenarJhaveri Chair Northwell HealthUnited States MitchellRosner Chair Univeristy of Virginia HealthUnited States Approaches to the Patient with Severe Hyponatremia and Acute Kidney Injury MitchellRosner Speaker Univeristy of Virginia HealthUnited States Approaches to Severe Hypercalcemia KenarJhaveri Speaker Northwell HealthUnited States Approaches to Severe Hyperkalemia KSNayak Speaker Virinchi HospitalsIndia Q and A Neelkamal Hall 305		Professor Donal O'Donoghue Global Kidney Policy Forum: Opening Remarks and Setting the Scene IfeomaUlasi Chair College of Medicine, University of NigeriaNigeria Opening Remarks IfeomaUlasi Chair College of Medicine, University of NigeriaNigeria Patient Testimony: Living with a Kidney Disease VikramVuppala Speaker NephroPlusIndia Parijat Hall 201
2:35 p.m. 4 p.m.	Building a CKDu Research Methodology Toolbox, part 2 ErangaWijewickrama Chair Faculty of Medicine, University of ColomboSri Lanka What Should We Measure to Identify Disease in CKDu Research? BenCaplin Speaker University College LondonUnited Kingdom How Can Kidney Biopsies Provide Causal Insight Into CKDu? ShuchiAnand Speaker United States Q and A Javakusum Hall 303						Professor Donal O'Donoghue Global Kidney Policy Forum: Local Voices, Global Impact: Tackling Kidney Health Challenges in India VivekanandJha Chair George Institute for Global Health IndiaIndia Introducing Local Voices VivekanandJha Chair George Institute for Global Health IndiaIndia Kidney Health in India: A Comprehensive Overview SanghamitraPati Speaker Additional Director General, ICMR, New DelhiIndia Collective Action Towards Integrated Care: Learning from National NCD Program MonikaArora Speaker HRIDAYIndia Kidney Health in India: Importance of Measurement, Quality Assurance, and Registries ManishaSahay Speaker Professor and Head, Department of Nephrology, Osmania Medical college and General hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, IndiaIndia Home Dialysis: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities Magdalena Madero Speaker Chief of Nephrology, Instituto Nacional de CardiolMexico Q and A Parijat Hall 201
2:45 p.m. 4:05 p.m.	ISN SharE-RR - Sharing Expertise to Support the Set-up of Renal Registries: Using Registries to Support Clinical Trials MegJardine Chair NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, AustraliaAustralia ShilpanjaliJesudason Chair Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide, AustraliaAustralia Using Registry Data in Trials: Lessons on Patient Reported Outcomes from SWIFT in Australia RachaelMorton Speaker NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, The University of SydneyAustralia Using Registry Data in Trials: Defining Measures of Kidney Function in Observational Studies Using Routine Health Care Data Juan-JesusCarrero Speaker Karolinska InstitutetSweden Using Registry Data in Trials: Lessons from Tackling AKI, H4RT, and Prepare for Kidney Care in the UK FergusCaskey Speaker University of Bristol, UKUnited Kingdom Q and A Kesar Hall 202
3:20 p.m. 4:05 p.m.	Professor Donal O'Donoghue Global Kidney Policy Forum: From Barriers to Solutions: Advancing Access to Kidney Care Across the Region UrmilaAnandh Chair Amrita Hospitals, Faridabad, Delhi NCRIndia Introducing Voices from the Region UrmilaAnandh Chair Amrita Hospitals, Faridabad, Delhi NCRIndia Kidney Health in the Region: Trends, Challenges, and WHO Initiatives for Improved Care NalikaGunawardena Speaker WHO South-East Asia Regional Office India From Access to Accountability: Lessons from Thailand's Case Study on Kidney Care Policies YotTeerawattananon Speaker HITAPThailand The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Dialysis Care and the Impact of Climate Change on Kidney Health in Bangladesh Kazi ShahnoorAlam Speaker Professor of Nephrology National Institute of Kidney Diseases and Urology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.Bangladesh Sri Lanka: Tackling the Socio-Economic Determinants of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) DilushiWijayaratne Speaker Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri LankaSri Lanka Community-Based Screening through the Kidney Care Network in Nepal Sanjib KumarSharma Speaker BP Koirala Institute of Health SciencesNepal Q and A Parijat Hall 201
4:05 p.m. 4:15 p.m.	Professor Donal O'Donoghue Global Kidney Policy Forum: Closing Remarks and Next Steps IfeomaUlasi Chair College of Medicine, University of NigeriaNigeria Closing Remarks IfeomaUlasi Chair College of Medicine, University of NigeriaNigeria Advancing Kidney Health: Insights from Patient Advocates VasundharaRaghavan Speaker Member of PLAGIndia Parijat Hall 201
4:30 p.m. 6 p.m.	Plenary Session 1 and WCN'25 Opening Ceremony Welcome and ISN Presidential Address MasaomiNangaku Speaker Japan Science with a Purpose: Equity, Accountability and Sustainability in Kidney Care (Panel Discussion) LizLightstone Moderator Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom GautamiTadimalla Speaker Life Again FoundationIndia NicoleScholes-Robertson Speaker The University of SydneyAustralia RadhikaCoomaraswamy Speaker Former Under Secretary General of the United NationsSri Lanka Congress Welcome by the Indian Society of Nephrology Shyam BihariBansal Speaker Department of Nephrology, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, IndiaIndia Brahmkamal Hall - Plenary Hall
6:45 p.m. 7:30 p.m.	Spotlight on Global Kidney Health: Interactive Mapping and Key Insights AminuBello Spotlight Chairperson University of AlbertaCanada ISN-GKHA: Advancing Global Kidney Health – Updates and Achievements AminuBello Spotlight Speaker University of AlbertaCanada Insights into Global Kidney Health Disparities: A Regional Perspective Using the Interactive Map ErangaWijewickrama Spotlight Speaker Faculty of Medicine, University of ColomboSri Lanka The ISN-GKHA Interactive Map: Bridging Gaps Through Data-Driven Action SomkanyaTungsanga Spotlight Speaker Thailand Spotlight One (Exhibition)						Spotlight on How To Make Your Renal Unit Green ELP Winston Wing ShingFung Spotlight Chairperson Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong KongHong Kong, China DIVYABAJPAI Spotlight Speaker Professor, Department of Nephrology, Seth G.S.M.C. and K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai, IndiaIndia EhabHafiz Spotlight Speaker Theodor Bilharz Research InstituteEgypt Winston Wing ShingFung Spotlight Speaker Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong KongHong Kong, China Spotlight Two (Amphitheatre, level 5)