Nurse Practitioner & Physician Assistant

Renal Physicians Association
2008 Nurse Practitioner & Physician Assistant Meeting

July 17-18, 2008
Arlington, VA
Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City

Thursday, July 17, 2008 | Friday, July 18, 2008

Thursday, July 17, 2008

7:00am to 5:30pm

Registration

7:00 am to 7:50am

Continental Breakfast

7:50am

General Session I

7:50am to 8:00am

Welcome

Robert Gutman, MD

8:00am to 9:10am

The Rational Approach to the Newly Diagnosed Patient with Renal Insufficiency

Charles Foulks, MD

9:10am to 9:15am

Q & A

9:15am to 10:00am

Use of Imaging & Urinalysis in the Assessment of Renal Disease

Francis Dumler, MD

10:00am to 10:30

Refreshment Break

10:30am to 12:00pm

General Session II (panel discussion)
In Depth Review of Three Causes of Kidney Failure

10:30am to 10:55am

Multiple Myeloma

Jules Puschett, MD

10:55am to 11:25am

Polycystic Kidney Disease

Karen Mackay, MD

11:25am to 11:50am

Vasculits/Lupus/CTD

Miriam Michael, MD

11:50am to 12:00pm

Q & A

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Lunch

Concurrent Workshops

1:30pm to 2:45 pm

Post Transplant Care in the Continum of CKD

Donald Hricik, MD

Creating a New Home Dialysis Paradigm

Alan Kliger, MD

Fistula Management: The Key to Successful Hemodialysis

Anish Shah, MD

2:45pm to 3:15pm

Refreshment Break

3:15pm to 4:30pm

Palliative Care and Pain Management Through the Stages of CKD

Alvin Moss, MD

Repeat Fistula Workshop

Repeat Post Transplant Workshop

4:30pm to 5:30pm

General Session III

4:30pm to 5:30pm

Coding and Billing

Debra Lawson, CPC

5:30pm

Meeting Adjourns

6:00pm

Reception