Nephrology News Flash is the official ERA-EDTA E-Newsletter

No 178, May 2019

The ERA-EDTA is happy to announce the organisation of the new Continuous Education & Professional Development (CEPD) courses scheduled on the first day of the 56^th ERA-EDTA Congress (June 13, 2019) in Budapest (Hungary).

In 2019 the ERA-EDTA will also organise, for the very first time ever, the Scientific and Educational Interaction Day (SEID): an exciting meeting which boasts educational lectures focused mainly on clinical issues, starting from diagnosis all the way to prevention and therapy. The event will also be preceded by the Satellite ‘New Drug’ Symposium designed to be a fully educational experience with some ‘industry focus’. The SEID and the ‘New Drug’ Symposium are scheduled on October 25-26, 2019 in Vienna (Austria).

Join the expert faculty at the Novo Nordisk Industry Symposium to review current unmet needs for patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, analyse the latest evidence of GLP-1 receptor agonists on renal outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and explore the potential mode of action of GLP-1 in the kidney.

If you attend the ERA-EDTA Congress 2019, do not miss this opportunity on Friday June 14, 2019 at 13:30–14:30, Hall A1, Hungexpo (Congress venue).

Find out more here.

The ERA-EDTA Working Group on Inherited Kidney Diseases (WGIKD) and ERKNet, the European Reference Network for Rare Kidney Diseases, are pleased to present Rare Kidney Disease Webinars, an educational initiative that is freely accessible to all users.
 

A new Webinar will be held on Tuesday May 7, 2019 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm CET (3:00 pm UK time, 5:00 pm Eastern European time).

Beata Lipska-Zietkiewicz (Gdansk, Poland) will give a presentation on ‘Schimke immune-osseous dysplasia’.

Register here to receive the access link to the Webinar.
Please pay attention to the technical requirements provided with the access link.
 

If you would like to be notified automatically about future Rare Kidney Disease Webinars, please sign up here for the ERKNet Newsletter.
You can find the schedule for upcoming Webinars and past presentations at www.erknet.org under the ‘Education & Training’ tab.

The ERA-EDTA is supporting research projects coordinated by its Working Groups by granting Full ERA-EDTA members (≤40 years old) the possibility to be involved in a given project by providing him/her a Long Term Fellowship.
Visit the Young Fellowship Programme webpage to read the list of projects and to learn how to apply.
The deadline for applications is May 8, 2019 at 14:00 (CET).

Association between epicardial adipose tissue and CV calcification in CKD patients
Pathological increases of epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) are closely associated with traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and reduced eGFR.

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Watch the latest author videos from NDT – ‘Socioeconomic disadvantage and the risk of advanced chronic kidney disease: results from a cohort study with 1.4 million participants’ by Misghina Weldegiorgis, ‘The utility of magnetic resonance imaging for noninvasive evaluation of diabetic nephropathy’ by Robert S Brown and ‘The association between longer haemodialysis treatment times and hospitalization and mortality after the two-day break in individuals receiving three times a week haemodialysis’ by James Fotheringham.
Click here to see all of the NDT author videos.

During the General Assembly in Budapest (Hungary) two Ordinary Council Members shall be elected as G. B. Capasso (Italy), G. Spasovski (Republic of North Macedonia) will be ending their terms.
ERA-EDTA Full active members cat. A and B, are strongly encouraged to participate in this election by voting online for two candidates.
Click here to read the rules and candidate information.

The Continuous Education and Professional Development (CEPD) Committee is a new body of the ERA-EDTA, in charge of creating educational courses which are held the day before the first official day of the ERA-EDTA Annual Congress.

The ERA-EDTA is looking for a new CEPD Chair.
Click here to learn more about this position. The deadline for applications is Friday May 3, 2019.

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