Colleagues from the Donal O’Donoghue Renal Research Centre and NCA renal multidisciplinary team shared their expertise during UK Kidney Week in June.
The prestigious 5th annual O’Donoghue award lecture was presented by Mrs Marie O’Donoghue to Professor David Wheeler, Consultant Nephrologist, University College London. His career has focused on large randomized controlled trials in nephrology that have changed the landscape of treatment for kidney patients.
The DRRC team gave poster and oral presentations, talks, chaired and co-chaired various sessions. We demonstrated our research activity across 15 posters and in 12 oral presentations.
- The cyclical journey of the AKI patient: Points for intervention and improvement
- Abstract (oral presentation): Does timeliness of post-discharge renal function review after impatient acute kidney injury influence readmission and mortality risk? (Dr Benjamin James)
- The CRM Butterfly Effect: Support the patient, support the system (Prof Smeeta Sinha)
- Best clinical abstracts (1 of just 6 in the main lecture theatre)
- Oral presentation: Creatinine Muscle Index (CMI) is independently associated with sarcopenia and mortality in chronic kidney disease (Dr Thomas McDonnell – main picture with Ibrahim Saleem)
- Enhancing nursing in kidney care: Education, engagement and development
- The impact of structured kidney care courses on nurse education (Prof Helen Hurst)
- CKD-MBD: Time for a paradigm shift? (session co-chaired by Prof Smeeta Sinha)
- It’s Friday, 5pm, and the phone rings…
- Trouble in transition clinic (Dr Constantina Chrysochou, above)
- Helping older patients make treatment choices about dialysis and transplantation
- Abstract (oral presentation): Plasma and urinary KIM-1 in chronic kidney disease: Prognostic value and implications for kidney failure and mortality (Dr Thomas McDonnell)
- Best practices in renovascular disease
- Best practice in atherosclerotic renovascular disease (Prof Philip Kalra)
- Best practice in fibromuscular dysplasia (Dr Constantina Chrysochou)
- Multi-morbidity – the importance of the cardio kidney metabolic syndrome
- CKM – A Nephrologists take-home points on management (Prof Smeeta Sinha)
- Abstract (oral presentation): Impact of integrated cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic care on mortality and renal outcomes: A propensity-matched analysis (Dr Saif Al-Chalabi)
- Frailty, multimorbidity, and cognitive impairment in older potential kidney transplant recipients: It’s time for a national paradigm shift (session co-chaired by Prof Helen Hurst)
- Developments in preventing the complications of immunosuppression in transplant patients
- Impact and management of monkeypox infection in kidney transplant recipients: A systematic review (Dr Ola Suliman, above)
- What’s next for the Government’s 10-year health plan and will it lead to better outcomes for kidney patients?
- The role of government clinical advisors in ensuring the 10 year health plan leads to better outcomes for kidney patients (Prof Smeeta Sinha, Dr Gavin Dreyer)
- Dr Nidhi Agrawal (above) and Dr Constantina Chrysochou were awarded the best poster for their work on tubulointerstitial nephritis with uveitis syndrome: A case series, in the poster presentation section Case Reports 1.
- Our collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University was captured in a poster presentation (title: Serum miRNAs as biomarkers and modulators of rapidly progressing chronic kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes) by a science PhD student, Callum McDowall, above.