Professor Smeeta Sinha gave the prestigious 6th Annual O’Donoghue award lecture ‘Spinning plates: leading through collaboration’ at UK Kidney Week in March.
This is one of the UK kidney community’s highest honours, recognising her exceptional leadership, service and impact in kidney medicine. Professor Sinha’s lecture celebrates the legacy of Professor Donal O’Donoghue, whose work in kidney care, professional leadership and patient advocacy shaped services across the UK. His widow, Mrs Marie O’Donoghue presented the award to Professor Sinha (main picture).
She was among more than a dozen colleagues from the Donal O’Donoghue Renal Research Centre (DRRC) and NCA renal department who attended UK Kidney Week to collaborate and share their expertise.
The multidisciplinary team took a leading role in the meeting with both poster and oral presentations, talks, chairing and co-chairing sessions and giving state of the art lectures:
- B cell to better care: Translating pathways into patient outcomes (Prof Sinha)
- Innovations in cardio-renal-metabolic disease: Addressing the cardiorenal consequences of persistent RAAS dysregulation (Prof Philip Kalra)
- Advancing glomerular disease care in the UK: The practical implementation of new standards and therapies (Prof Sinha)
- In flames: Residual inflammation, CKD and ASCVD (Prof Sinha)
- Personalising anaemia therapy (Prof Kalra)
- The NURTuRE session (Prof Kalra and Dr Thomas McDonnell)
- Transplant work-up: Practical guidance for kidney teams (Dr Rosie Donne)
- Their wish is our command: Making shared care and peer support happen (Prof Helen Hurst)
- Renal pathology clinicopathological correlation: Case discussions from the UK Renal Pathology Slide Club (Prof Sinha)
- All you need to know about glycaemic profiling on the dialysis unit (Prof Tina Chrysochou and Dr Saif Al-Chalabi)
- The ‘writes and wrongs’ of abstracts (Dr Donne)
- Seeing is believing: How advanced imaging is shaping the future of nephrology (Prof Kalra and Prof Chrysochou)
- Tubulophiles unite! Celebrating the nephron’s unsung hero (Dr McDonnell)
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Three posters were presented with star awards as best poster in the session with the following topics:
- Mixed methods evidence synthesis for equity: To identify inclusive education and information interventions for all people managing early-stage chronic kidney disease (Professor Helen Hurst)
- Chronic kidney disease progression is attenuated in post-menopausal women receiving hormone replacement therapy (HRT): A retrospective cohort study (Dr Thomas McDonnell)
- Social deprivation and clinical outcomes in patients receiving peritoneal dialysis (Dr Ola Suliman and Dr Varun Mamidi)
These were among 20 posters and two oral presentations from the team, including case reports, CKD, education and wellbeing, haemodialysis, home therapies and outcomes, transplantation, AKI, basic science and diagnostics, medicines, nutrition and supportive care, service delivery, safety and sustainability and population health, prevention and CRM.
