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Academic Sessions Program

21st - 23rd November 2024 @ Shangri La Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Pre-Congress Sessions

Thursday, November 21, 2024
Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
 
Time Pre-congress Sessions 1 Pre-congress Sessions 2
0800-1600 Update on Glomerulonephritis conducted by Royal Free Hospital, London as part of the ISN Sister Center Program with the University of Colombo Kidney Replacement Therapy for nursing officers
Resource persons: Alan Salama (UK) Ruth Pepper (UK) Maryam Shamassi(UK) Adrian Liew (Singapore) Desmond Yap (Hong Kong) Resource persons: Local faculty

Inauguration

Thursday, November 21, 2024
Lotus Ballroom, Shangri La Hotel, Colombo
Time Inauguration
1900-2230 Inauguration ceremony including ‘Professor Rezvi Sheriff Oration’
Followed by
Cultural show, Fellowship and Dinner

Main Congress Day 1

Friday November 22, 2024
Lotus Ballroom, Shangri La Hotel, Colombo
Time Topic
0800-0915 Symposium 1: IgA nephropathy
  1. Pathogenesis and targets of treatment – Hitoshi Suzuki (Japan)
  2. Current evidence-based management – Suceena Alexander (India)
  3. Emerging treatments – Adrian Liew (Singapore)
0915-1030 Symposium 2: Glomerulonephritis Update 1
  1. Vasculitis – Alan Salama (UK)
  2. Lupus nephritis – Desmond Yap (Hong Kong)
  3. Membranous nephropathy – Ruth Pepper (UK)
1030-1045 Tea
1045-1200 Symposium 3: Glomerulonephritis Update 2
  1. Anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies in the treatment of glomerulonephritis – Dr Ruth Pepper (UK)
  2. Complement inhibitors in the treatment of glomerulonephritis – Prof Alan Salama (UK)
  3. Evolving role of APRIL inhibitors in IgA nephropathy: Results of the sibeprenilimab phase II clinical trial – Dr Manisha Sahay (India)
1200-1315 Symposium 4: Joint session by SLSON and Remedium One
Lessons learnt from clinical trials and cohort studies
  1. Should we treat frail and multimorbid patients with SGLT2 inhibitors? – Richard Haynes (UK)
  2. Dialysis catheters: learnings from a national RCT – Martin Gallagher (Australia)
  3. Clinical Trials and Research: Are they two sides of the same coin? – Vivek Jha (India)
1315-1415 Lunch and poster viewing
1415-1530 Symposium 5: Managing complications of CKD
  1. Anaemia in CKD: Leveraging Evidence-Based Treatments for Current Practice – Sanjeev Gulati (India)
  2. CKD-MBD management today: From evidence to practice Shyam Bansal (India)
  3. Guarding the heart: strategies for mitigating cardiovascular disease in CKD – Muhammad Magdi Yaqoob (UK)
1530-1645 Symposium 6: Peritoneal Dialysis
  1. Incremental peritoneal dialysis – Sandeep Mahajan (India
  2. Managing PD peritonitis – Adrian Liew (Singapore)
  3. Improving technique survival in peritoneal dialysis – Stanley Fan (UK)
1645-1700 Tea
1700-1815 Symposium 7: Kidney Transplantation
  1. Transplant immunology – selecting the best match – Susan Wan (Australia)
  2. Optimizing immunosuppression – Suceena Alexander (India)
  3. Improving long-term kidney transplant outcomes – Muhammad Magdi Yaqoob (UK)
1815-1915 Meet the trainer – for nephrology trainees and young nephrologists Vivek Jha (India) Richard Haynes (UK) Martin Galagher (Australia) Katherine Bennet-Richards (UK)
1945-2200 President’s dinner – Ceylon Curry Club

Main Congress Day 2

Saturday November 23, 2024
Lotus Ballroom, Shangri La Hotel, Colombo

 

Time Topic – Hall A Topic – Hall B
0800-0915

Symposium 8: AKI

  1. The Changing Face of AKI: Updates in Pathophysiology and Classification – Narayan Prasad (India)
  2. Can we predict AKI? – Martin Gallagher (Australia)
  3. Tailored Care for AKI: Integrating Dialytic and Non-Dialytic Therapies – Manisha Sahay (India)

Symposium 9:
Paediatric Nephrology: session 1 Glomerular diseases in children

  1. Lupus nephritis in children: novel perspectives – Yap Hui Kim (Singapore)
  2. Steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome – Shenal Thalgahagoda (Sri Lanka)
  3. Paediatric renal vascular disease – Sean Kennedy (Australia)
0915-1030

Symposium 10:
AKI in special situations

  1. AKI in Cancer Treatment – Rajeevalochana Parthasarathy (India)
  2. Tackling Thrombotic Microangiopathy in AKI: Current Perspectives – Valentine Lobo (India)
  3. Paraprotein mediated AKI – Simon Cheung (Hong Kong)

Symposium 11:
Paediatric Nephrology: session 2 Optimizing a child on dialysis

  1. Appropriate care for children on dialysis – Priya Pais (India)
  2. Approach to haemodialysis related emergencies in children – S Gajendran (UK)
  3. Prevention and management of peritonitis in children – Azmeri Sultana (Bangladesh)
1030-1045 Tea
1045-1200

Symposium 12:
Overcoming challenges in nephrology

  1. The dialysis dilemma: Balancing risks and benefits of early versus late initiation – Katherine Bennet-Richards (UK)
  2. Establishing low-cost comprehensive kidney care in low-resource settings – Harun Rashid (Bangladesh)
  3. Deceased donor organ transplantation- Opportunities/ Challenges and Triumphs – N Gopalakrishnan (India)

Symposium 13:
Paediatric Nephrology: session 3 Kidney transplantation in children

  1. Diagnosis and management of kidney transplant rejection – Yap Hui Kim (Singapore)
  2. Recurrence of primary disease in children after kidney transplantation – Sean Kennedy (Australia)
  3. Smooth transition to adult care – Priya Pais (India)
1200-1315

Symposium 14:
CKDu

  1. The sun or the water: The primary cause of CKDu – is it heat stress or a toxin? – Chula Herath (Sri Lanka)
  2. Aetio-pathogenesis of CKDu: what have we learnt from kidney histopathology? – Christoph Daniel (Germany)
  3. Aetio-pathogenesis of CKDu: what have learnt from epidemiological studies? – Nishantha Nanayakkara (Sri Lanka)

Oral Free Paper Presentations:

  • Free paper 1 –
  • Free paper 2 –
  • Free paper 3 –
  • Free paper 4 –
  • Free paper 5 –
  • Free paper 6 –
1315-1415 Lunch and poster viewing
1415-1530

Symposium 15:
Trending topics in nephrology

  1. Who benefits most from SGLT2 inhibitors? – Richard Haynes (UK)
  2. Digital Health and AKI: Current status and challenges in clinical practice – Vivek Jha (India)
  3. Artificial intelligence and advanced medical technology: application in kidney diseases –Desmond Yap (Hong Kong)
1530-1630 Nephrology Quiz followed by presentation of awards
1630-1645 Tea
1800-1930 Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka Society of Nephrology (members only)