ANZSN 2011
 

Program

The Annual Scientific Meeting will commence Monday 19th September and conclude Wednesday 21 September 2011. The Pre-Conference Nephrology Update Course will be held Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September 2011. 

A number of additional meetings will held in conjunction with the ANZSN ASM.  Click on the Additional Meetings navigation link on the left for further details.

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Monday 19 September 2011
0800 Registration
0830-0930 Plenary Session 1
Risk prediction in chronic kidney disease
Associate Professor Marcello Tonelli
University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada
0930-1030 Seminar 1 Jacquot Awardees Presentation
Bex, flies and audiotapes (or why I missed my daughter's concert)
Professor Alan Cass
The George Institute, Sydney, NSW
  Regulatory T cell dynamics following renal transplantation
Dr Karen Dwyer
St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW
1030-1100 Morning tea
1100-1300 ANZSN Young Investigator Awards
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1530 Mini-Oral Posters 1 Mini-Oral Posters 2 Mini-Oral Posters 3
1530-1600 Afternoon tea
1600-1730 Kidney Health Australia  Clinical Science Award   Seminar 2 Signals in renal disease
      DNA damage signalling and vascular dysfunction in renal disease
Professor Catherine Shanahan
King’s College London, United Kingdom
      Signaling within and between glomerular cells
Professor Peter Mathieson
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
      Endothelial-mesenchymal-transition: a new pathway to diabetic nephropathy?
Dr Jinhua Li
Monash University
1730-1830 ANZSN AGM
1830-1930 Welcome Reception
       
Tuesday 20 September 2011
0800 Registration
0830-0930 Plenary Session 2
Towards better management of proteinuric diseases
Professor Peter Mathieson
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
0930-1100 Seminar 3 ANZDATA Session   Seminar 4 microRNAs in Disease
  Is there an increased risk of graft loss in adolescents?
Dr Angus Richie

Relationship between socio-economic markers and incidence of ESKD
Dr Blair Grace

New perspectives on withdrawal from dialysis
Dr Matthew Jose

Allocation of transplant kidneys -- can we do it better?
Dr Phil Clayton

Centre effects -- are they real? What can we do about them?
Associate Professor Stephen McDonald 		  MicroRNAs: roles in hypoxia, renal disease and cancer
Professor Jonathan Gleadle
Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre

MicroRNAs and cancer metastasis
Associate Professor Greg Goodall
Centre for Cancer Biology, SA Pathology

Renal fibrosis: the miRNA connection
Dr Phillip Kantharidis
The Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Research Institute
1100-1130 Morning tea
1130-1300 AMGEN Basic Science Award   Seminar 5 Clinical Science
      Bootle Award Recipient Report
The AKTN: Trials and triumphs
A/Professor Carmel Hawley Chair of the AKTN Operations Secretariat
      Public Reporting of Hospital Outcomes: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Dr Martin Gallagher
The George Institute, Sydney, NSW
      eGFR formulae - What are the Sources of Uncertainty?
Dr Graham Jones
St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1530 Mini-Oral Posters 4 Mini-Oral Posters 5 Mini-Oral Posters 6
1530-1600 Afternoon tea
1600-1730 Basic Science
Oral Presentations		   Clinical Science
Oral Presentatiuons
1900-2300 Gala Dinner, Adelaide Oval
       
Wednesday 21 September 2011
0800 Registration
0830-0930 Plenary Session 3
Mechanisms of vascular calcification in renal disease
Professor Catherine Shanahan
King’s College London, United Kingdom
0930-1100 Seminar 6 Renal Disease in Indigenous Communities
  Chronic kidney disease in Canadian Aboriginal populations Canada – Associate Professor Marcello Tonelli 
What do we know about renal disease in remote Aboriginal Australia Australia - Professor Wendy Hoy 
What do we know about kidney disease in Maori and Pacific Peoples New Zealand – Dr John Collins
1100-1130 Morning tea
1130-1300 Mini-Oral Posters 7 Mini-Oral Posters 8 Mini-Oral Posters 9
1300-1400 Lunch
1400 ASM Concludes

 
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