CME Course

 

ERA-EDTA & ISN/COMGAN
in cooperation with
the Albanian Society of Nephrology

 

Skanderbeg square in Tirana

CKD, CVD complications and management of kidney transplant recipients

Tirana, Albania
May 5, 2007

 

ERA-EDTA

European Council for Accreditation in CME in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (ECANDT of the ERA-EDTA accredited by the European Accreditation Council for CME – EACCME)

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), A. Torres (Spain) and K. Olgaard (Denmark)
Collaboration with ISN for courses in Eastern Europe:
N. Lameire (Belgium), A. Covic (Romania).

 

ERA-EDTA Coordinator: Goce Spasovski

 

Local coorganisers:
Prof. Nestor Thereska, President of the Albanian Society of Nephrology,
 
Prof. Sulejman Kodra, General Secretary of the Society

 

Free registration

 

Number of participants: 100

 

Official Language: English

 

Organizing Secretariat: Dr. Alma Idrizi, E-mail: alma_idrizi@yahoo.com

Info on accommodations: www.tirana-hotels.1bigeurope.com

 

 

Venue:
Sheshi Italia
P.O. Box 1717
Tirana
Phone: (355)(4) 274707

 

REGISTRATION FORM

 

 

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

 

08.15-08.45
Registration
   
08.45-09.00
Welcome address: N. Thereska, G. Spasovski, R. Vanholder, D. Goldsmith
   
09.00-09.45
Epidemiology, progression, retardation, and prevention of CKD
N. Thereska (Albania)
   
09.45-10.20
Kidney failure as a cardiovascular risk factor
R. Vanholder (Belgium)
   
10.20-10.55
Could we prevent development of mineral bone disease in CKD patients?
G. Spasovski (R. Macedonia)
   
10.55-11.30
Coffee break
   
11.30-12.05

Vascular access - a nephrologist's view

R. Vanholder (Belgium)
   
12.05-12.40
Long-term complications of dialysis
D. Goldsmith (UK)
   
12.40-14.00
Lunch
   
14.00-14.45
Cardiovascular risk assessment before kidney transplantation?
Z. Massy (France)
   
14.45-15.20
Living donor kidney transplantation
D. Goldsmith (UK)
   
15.20-15.55
Coffee break
   
15.55-16.30
Clinical management during first year post transplantation – the role of protocol biopsies
G. Spasovski (R. Macedonia)
   
16.30-17.15
Chronic allograft nephropathy
H. Regele (Austria)
   
20.00
Farewell dinner