February 12th-15th, 2008

Cairo, Egypt

ERA-EDTA CME Activities

Chair-person: R. Coppo (Italy)

Secretary: A.L.M. De Francisco (Spain)

Members: J. Floege (Germany)

R. Vanholder (Belgium)

A. Wiecek (Poland)

C. Zoccali (Italy)

J. Cannata-Andia, ERA-EDTA President (Spain)

CME Courses Coordinators:

Basic Science and Clinical Nephrology: R. Coppo (Italy) and P. Ronco (France).

Chronic Renal Failure, Hypertension and Clinical Epidemiology: C. Zoccali (Italy) and G. London (France).

Dialysis: R. Vanholder (Belgium), S. Davies (UK) and C. Wanner (Germany).

Transplantation: C. Ponticelli (Italy) and J. Grinyo (Spain).

Collaboration with ISN for courses in Eastern Europe: N. Lameire (Belgium), A. Covic (Romania).

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

16.15-18.15	Updates in renal osteodystrophy Chairperson: Rosanna Coppo (Italy)
	Revisiting bone & mineral disorders in CKD patients Prof. Jorge B. Cannata-Andia (Spain) Cardiovascular effects of Vit D, bone-arterial cross talk Gérard London (France) Calcimimetics Magdi Soliman (Egypt)

Friday, February 15th, 2008

10.00-12.00	ERA-EDTA highlights of the Barcelona June 2007 congress Chairperson: Jorge Cannata-Andia (Spain) Highlights on treatment of glomerular diseases Rosanna Coppo (Italy) Highlights on dialysis complications Gérard London (France)

The complete scientific programme of the ESN Congress 2008 is available at http://www.esn2008.com/full_program.asp