Caribbean Institute of Nephrology,

Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of

the West Indies and University of Michigan

(Ann Arbor)

Present the

4th Annual International Conference

On

Nephrology and Hypertension

January 26 - 29, 2012

Thursday

January 26, 2012

7:00 am Registration

Moderator Professor E. Barton

9:00 am – 9:10 am Opening address – Prof. E. Barton

9:10am – 9:20am Address from Michigan

9:20 am - 9:25 am Address by Western Doctors Association

9:25 am– 9:30 am Address by President, Medical Association of

Jamaica

9:30 am – 9:45 am Minister of Health

9:45 am – 10:30 am State of the art Lecture: Political (engagements)

strategies to deal with the growing epidemic of

Chronic Kidney Disease. (Bill Kowsar, Larry

Delguardo, Norrris)

10:30 am - 11:00 am Exhibits and Abstract Sessions

Moderator M. walwyn/C. Lewis

11:00 am – 11:30 am Obesity and Renal disease: Strategies for

prevention. M. Boyne

11:30 am – 12:00 am Obesity-NCD link: Strategies to reduce its health

impact on CKD – Dr. Fitzroy Henry – Chairman,

Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute

12:00 am – 12:30 pm Economic burden of chronic kidney disease –Dr.

R. Smith

12:30pm – 1:30 pm Lunch/ Exhibits

Lunchtime lecture

Moderator L. Roberts/T. Ferguson

1:30pm – 2:00 pm Clinical implications of genetics in Health disparities

– Dr. S. Nicholas

2:00 pm – 2:30pm Audit from an hypertension clinic – Dr. K. Connell

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Management of masked hypertension – Dr.

I. Thomas

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Management of resistant hypertension – Dr. S.

Nicholas

Friday

January 27, 2012

7:00 am – Registration

Moderator G. Schulman/R. Smith

9:00 am - 10:00 am State of the Art Lecture – systems biology of

chronic renal failure – F. Brosius

10:00 am – 10:30 am Prevention and regression of diabetic kidney

disease - S. Nicholas

10:30 am – 11:00am Exhibits and Abstract Sessions

Moderator A. Soyibo/C. Watson-brown

11:00 am – 11:30 am Preventing cardiovascular outcome in

chronic kidney disease – F. Brosius

11:30 am – 12:00 am Data from Caribbean renal registry – AK

Soyibo

12:00 am – 12:30 noon Updates on polycystic kidney disease – P.

Gibson

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm HIV Nephropathy – J. Cijang

1:00pm – 2:00 pm Lunch/ Exhibits

Moderator K. Connell/W. WILLIAMS

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Podocytopathies and FSGS/Nephrotic

syndrome – K. Campbell

2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Na/Creatinine ratio and it association with

blood pressure, BMI, pulse pressure and

gender – D. Cohall

2:50 pm – 3:10 pm Na/K ratio and its association with blood

pressure and gender - T. Scantlebury-

Manning

3:10pm – 3:30pm Morning spot urine sample for the estimation

of 24-hour urinary protein excretion – S.

James

Saturday

January 28, 2012

7:00 am Registration

Moderator A. Ojo/F. Brosius

9:00 am – 10:00 am State of the Art Lecture: Toward non-

invasive molecular markers for the diagnosis

and prognosis of CKD – W. Ju

10:00 am – 10:30 am APOL1/MYH-9 and other renal candidate

genes – Prof. A. Ojo

10:30 am – 11:00 am Acute glomerulonephritis – P. Gibson

11:00 am – 11:30 am Break/ Exhibits and Abstracts

Moderator K. Campbell/ Dr. M. Banbury

11:30 am – 12:15 pm The Ricardo Lee Foundation Lecture –

Vasculitis: Remember the kidney

12:15 am – 1:00 pm Short daily dialysis – G. Schulman

1:00 pm – 1:30 Nephrolithiasis – S. Frencher

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch/ Exhibits

Moderator j. East/L. DOUGLAS

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Surgery:

challenges in a developing country - Dr.

Andre Dick - University of Washington

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Immunosuppressive in Kidney Transplant –

M. Salifu

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm A Caribbean experience in kidney

Transplantation – L. Roberts

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Cancer in the kidney transplant patients – P.

Roberts

4:30pm – 5:00pm Infection in the transplant patient – N. Duke

5:00pm – 5:30pm “Fistula first” - Ottley

Sunday

January 29, 2012

Moderator C. Lawal/D. Dewar

9:00 am – 9:20 am Nutrition in CKD – R. Brown

9:20 am – 9:40 am Pregnancy and kidney disease – B. Babolal

9:40 am – 10:00 am Exercise in patients with

CKD/ESRD/Transplant - Physiotherapy

10:00 am – 10:30 am EXHIBITS

Moderator W. Chin/McGreggor

10:30 am – 10:50 noon Emerging role of laparoscopy

in kidney disease – P. Leake

10:50am – 11: 10am Role of dialysis care technician – C. Riley

11:10am – 12:10pm Ethical considerations for initiation and

termination of RRT – Dr. A. Mullings