2011 Presentations
The theme for BC Nephrology & Renal Transplant Days 2011 was
Change: Managing Transition and Sharing Innovations.
BCNRTD 2011 Final Program (PDF)Presentations are listed below.
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Plenary Sessions
Disaster Planning: When the Rubber Starts to Burn - Are You Ready?
Dr. Jacek Jastrzebski, Susanne Mackinnon, Edith Davidson, Sue Bannerman & Bill Kane
Endless Possibilities: The Search for Innovation & Change
Linda Tarrant (Keynote Presenter)
Areas of Change: Implementing Innovations
Dr. Michael Copland, Dr. R. Jean Shapiro & Angela Robinson
BCT Update
Dr. Greg Grant
BCPRA Update
Dr. Adeera Levin
Concurrent Sessions
Water Quality Standards: You Can't Wash with Dirty Water
Dr. Myriam Farah, Dr. Gerry Karr & Janise Galvey
Hemostasis in Renal Failure - Focus on New Anticoagulants: To Bleed or Not to Bleed
Dr. Agnes Lee & Karen Shalansky
Canadian Blood Services
Dr. Peter Nickerson
Friday, October 7th, 2011
Plenary Session
Ethics of Choice - Debate and Discussion
Dr. Bashir Jiwani
AM Concurrent Sessions
Expanding Living Kidney Donation
EOL Champions: Caring for Palliative Patients from Pediatrics to Geriatrics
Dr. Mohamud Karim, Wallace Robinson & Dr. Hal Siden
Peritoneal Dialysis and PROMIS Improvements - The Reveal
Dr. Gary Nussbaumer
PM Concurrent Sessions
Attending to Anxiety and Depression: Fundamental to Successful Transitions
Bobbi Preston & Sara Himelstein
Tonight's the Night - Your Place or Mine: Options in Delivery of Dialysis
Dr. Myriam Farah & Beverly Sondrup
(Handouts available regarding home based dialysis options: Options and Questionnaire)
Diabetes and Transplantation
Concurrent Plenary Sessions
Renal Jeopardy - Challenge Your Nutrition Knowledge
Gillian Kelly, Wendy Rafuse & Jesse Colbeck
The Gift of Giving
Dr. Greg Grant
For any additional information, please contact the BC Renal Agency at
604-875-7340 or by email.