Optimize Patient Care
Review updates, advances & best practices in all areas of nephrology.
Among the Highest-Rate CME
Program is among the highest-rated CME courses at Harvard Medical School
50 hours of Continuing Education
Earn up to 50.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Updates, Advances and Practical Information You Can Use Now to Screen, Diagnose and Manage Patients with Kidney Disease
With more than 50 interactive lectures and case-based workshops, this CME course provides a comprehensive review in all areas of nephrology.
Many practicing nephrologists and physicians find it difficult to keep up with the rapid scientific and technological advances in renal care because medicine is changing at a faster pace than ever before. As busy clinicians, we need to stay current in order to optimize patient care and improve outcomes.
Advance your knowledge by joining world-renowned experts and Harvard Medical School’s leading clinical faculty for a comprehensive review of nephrology. The most important updates and advances in the diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases will be taught, including practical information that you can use now to provide exceptional patient care.
This CME course will address pathophysiologic and clinical issues in the major areas of nephrology, including:
- Glomerular disease
- Acute renal failure
- Renal transplantation
- Immunosuppressive management
- Hypertension
- Pregnancy and renal disease
- COVID-19
- Acid-base and fluid and electrolyte disorders
- Potassium balance
- Renal imaging
- Bone mineral disorders
- Lupus nephritis
- Diuretic resistance
- Dialysis
- Renal Stones
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Genetic renal diseases
- Cardiorenal and hepatorenal syndrome
Presenters will also discuss diagnostic testing, well-recognized medical comprehensive curriculum.
Our highly accessible and educationally sound platform includes:
- Innovative lectures
- Valuable case-based sessions with real-time audience-response questions
- Interactive Q&A sessions with our expert faculty
- Chat features to discuss challenging cases and ask pressing questions
- Informal opportunities to share and exchange information with one another through interactive tools
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how to approach patients with acid-base and electrolyte disturbances and manage their care
- Define hypertension treatment goals and management for different populations
- Review strategies for diagnosing and managing acute kidney injury
- Assess new developments to reduce the risk of chronic kidney diesase progression
- Incorporate optimal immunosuppression strategies for initial and maintenance immunosuppression
- Develop strategies to screen, prevent and treat patients with long-terms complications of kidney transplantation
- Summarize optimal management strategies for non-immunologic complications after kidney transplantation
- Evaluate and treat patients presenting with signs and symptoms of glomerular disease
- Explain the role of genetic testing in specific conditions
Conference Schedule
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Sunday, March 19, 2023
| 7:50 AM |
Introduction & Welcome
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| 8:00 AM |
State-of-the-Art Approaches to Small-Vessel Vasculitis
Ronald J. Falk, MD |
| 8:50 AM |
Renal Disease and Pregnancy¹
S. Ananth Karumanchi, MD
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| 9:40 AM |
Question-and-Answer Session²
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| 9:50 AM | Break & Meditation* |
| 10:05 AM | Membranous Glomerulopathy and Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, Minimal Change Disease Ronald J. Falk, MD |
| 10:55 AM | IgA Nephropathy and H-S Purpura: Individualizing Therapy Ronald J. Falk, MD |
| 11:45 AM | Break |
| 11:50 AM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
| 12:05 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 PM | Prevention and Treatment of Common PD Complications: An Interactive Session² Q&A Adam M. Segal, MD, FASN |
| 1:50 PM | Detours in Hypertension: Evaluation and Management¹² Q&A Bradley M. Denker, MD |
| 2:35 PM | Break & Rejuvenation Exercises* |
| 2:50 PM | Prevention and Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury: A Comprehensive Primer¹ Paul M. Palevsky, MD |
| 3:35 PM | Optimizing Renal Support in Acute Kidney Injury: Case-Based Discussions Paul M. Palevsky, MD |
| 4:25 PM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
| 4:40 PM | Break |
| 4:50 PM | Meet the Professor: Ronald J. Falk, MD² Optional Session: Pre-registration is required due to limited space |
| 5:35 PM | Self-Study Session – Acid-Base: Elementary Issues Michael Emmett, MD |
Monday, March 20, 2023
| 8:00 AM |
Acid-Base: Advanced Issues
Michael Emmett, MD |
| 8:45 AM |
Case-Based Workshop: Acid-Base Clinical Cases
Michael Emmett, MD
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| 9:35 AM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
| 9:50 AM |
Break & Guided Meditation*
|
| 10:05 AM |
Relation Between Salt and Water
Richard H. Sterns, MD |
| 10:55 AM | Case-Based Workshop: Fluid and Electrolytes Richard H. Sterns, MD |
| 11:45 AM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch Break |
| 12:50 PM | The Management of the Incidentally Discovered Adrenal Mass² Anand Vaidya, MD, MMSc |
| 1:30 PM | Endocrine Hypertension: Primary Aldosteronism and Pheochromocytoma² Anand Vaidya, MD, MMSc |
| 2:30 PM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
| 2:40 PM | Break & Rejuvenation Exercises* |
| 2:55 PM | Anemia in CKD and ESKD: What We Know and What We Are Learning² Q&A Jeffrey H. William, MD |
| 3:20 PM | Pathology and Mechanisms of Glomerular Diseases² Q&A Helmut G. Rennke, MD |
| 4:20 PM | Break |
| 4:50 PM | The Forgotten Compartment: Tales from the Tubulointerstitium² Q&A Melanie P. Hoenig, MD |
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
| 8:00 AM |
Advanced Kidney Disease in Vulnerable Patients: Prognosis and Treatment Decision Conversations¹
Robert A. Cohen, MD, MSc
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| 8:40 AM |
Updates on the Management of Chronic Kidney Disease¹²
Bradley M. Denker, MD
|
| 9:30 AM |
Break and Guided Meditation*
|
| 9:55 AM |
Immunosuppressive Management in Acute Infection and Malignancy in Renal Transplantation¹
Daniel C. Brennan, MD, FACP
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| 10:40 AM | Xenotransplantation and Tolerance Trials¹ Daniel C. Brennan, MD. FACP |
| 11:30 AM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
| 11:45 AM |
Amyloidosis: A Primer for the Nephrologist
Q&A Ashish Verma, MBBS |
| 12:10 PM |
Lunch Break
|
| 1:00 PM | APOL1-Associated Kidney Disease² Martin Pollak, MD |
| 1:30 PM | Comprehensive Genetic Analysis in Nephrology Ali Gharavi, MD |
| 2:00 PM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
| 2:10 PM | Break and Rejuvenation Exercises* |
| 2:30 PM | Hemodialysis Delivery: Complications and the Barriers to Adequate Dialysis Q&A J. Kevin Tucker, MD |
| 3:20 PM | Break |
| 3:25 PM | Advances in Phosphate Homeostasis Management Myles S. Wolf, MD, MMSc |
| 4:15 PM | Disorders of Potassium Balance: Something Old and Something New² Melanie P. Hoenig, MD |
| 5:00 PM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
| 8:00 AM |
What’s New? Controversies in Salt and Water²
Mark L. Zeidel, MD
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| 8:50 AM | Management of the Failing Kidney: Best Practices for Care¹² Martha Pavlakis, MD |
| 9:40 AM |
Break and Rejuvenation Exercises*
|
| 10:00 AM |
Maintenance of Immunosuppression in Renal Transplantation†
Martha Pavlakis, MD |
| 10:50 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM |
Noninfectious Complications of Renal Transplantation²
Martha Pavlakis, MD
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| 11:50 AM | Question and Answer Session² |
| 12:05 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 PM | Novel Dialysis Modalities for Chronic Patients² John Danziger, MD, MPhil |
| 1:50 PM | Break |
| 1:55 PM | Case-Based Workshop: Problems in Dialysis² John Danziger, MD, MPhil |
| 2:40 PM | Question and Answer Session² |
| 2:50 PM | Break and Rejuvenation Exercises* |
| 3:10 PM | A Comprehensive Overview of Hypertension Management in 2023² Bradley M. Denker, MD |
| 3:55 PM | Challenges in Dialysis Access² Amy R. Evenson, MD, MPH |
| 4:40 PM | Question and Answer Session² |
| 4:55 PM | Break |
| 5:05 PM | MEET THE PROFESSOR: Theodore I. Steinman, MD² Optional Session: Pre-registration is required due to limited space |
Thursday, March 23, 2023
| 8:00 AM |
Challenging Clinical Questions: Case-Based Session²
Q&A
Robert S. Brown, MD |
| 8:45 AM | Management of Nondiabetic Chronic Kidney Disease George L. Bakris, MD, FASH, FASN |
| 9:35 AM |
Break and Guided Meditation*
|
| 9:50 AM | Management of Hypertension in Nephropathy and Diabetes: An Update George L. Bakris, MD, FASH, FASN |
| 10:40 AM | Ophthalmology Update for the Nephrologist Deborah S. Jacobs, MD |
| 11:10 AM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
| 11:25 AM | Break |
| 11:30 AM | Case-Based Workshop: Challenging Cases in Glomerular Disease² Q&A Helmut G. Rennke, MD |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:20 PM | Treating Lupus Nephritis in 2023 Gerald B. Appel, MD |
| 2:20 PM | Renal Aspects of Dysproteinemias Gerald B. Appel, MD |
| 3:20 PM | Break and Rejuvenation Exercises* |
| 3:40 PM | Case-Based Workshop: Challenging Glomerular Biopsy Cases² Gerald B. Appel, MD |
| 4:40 PM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
| 5:00 PM | Break |
| 5:10 PM | MEET THE PROFESSOR: Gerald B. Appel, MD² Optional Session: Pre-registration is required due to limited space |
Friday, March 24, 2023
| 8:00 AM | Selected Management Issues in Nephrotic Syndrome Jai Radhakrishnan, MD, MS |
| 8:45 AM | Management of Polycystic Kidney Disease Peter G. Czarnecki, MD |
| 9:35 AM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
| 9:50 AM | Break and Guided Meditation* |
| 10:10 AM | Diuretic Strategies in CNF, NS, Cirrhosis and CKD Jai Radhakrishnan, MD, MS |
| 11:00 AM | Diagnosis and Management of Thrombotic Microangiopathies Jai Radhakrishnan, MD, MS |
| 11:45 AM | Question-and-Answer Session² |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch Break |
| 12:55 PM | What Urologists Wish Nephrologists Would Know† Q&A Peter Steinberg, MD |
| 1:45 PM | A Comprehensive Look at Renal Stones: Strategies and Treatment Options Gary C. Curhan, MD, ScD |
| 2:35 PM | Break and Rejuvenation Exercises* |
| 2:55 PM | Highlights from the GlomCon Conferences Ali Poyan Mehr, MD Isaac Stillman, MD |
| 3:40 PM | Challenging Cases in Renal Disease: An Interactive Session² Stewart H. Lecker, MD, PhD |
| 4:30 PM | Question and Answer Session² |
¹Qualifies for Risk Management Credits
²Live-session
*Optional Wellness Activity
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$1199
- Fees are shown in USD. All registrants will receive an electronic syllabus. All sessions will be recorded as they are live-streamed and made available for immediate viewing at your convenience. Video recordings of the presentations will be available on demand until June 24, 2023.
- “Meet the Professor” Workshop Registration: You will have the opportunity to register for one of three special “Meet the Professor” workshops on March 1, 2023. The workshops provide an opportunity to interact with our guest faculty in a small-group setting to discuss challenging cases and address your pressing questions. This is an exclusive offering with limited attendance. Registered participants will be contacted on March 1, 2023 to secure a spot starting.
- On March 1, 2023, you will be contacted via email to register for one of three sessions. Please note, your tuition fee must be paid before enrolling in a workshop.
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- Fees are shown in USD. All registrants will receive an electronic syllabus. All sessions will be recorded as they are live-streamed and made available for immediate viewing at your convenience. Video recordings of the presentations will be available on demand until June 24, 2023.
- “Meet the Professor” Workshop Registration: You will have the opportunity to register for one of three special “Meet the Professor” workshops on March 1, 2023. The workshops provide an opportunity to interact with our guest faculty in a small-group setting to discuss challenging cases and address your pressing questions. This is an exclusive offering with limited attendance. Registered participants will be contacted on March 1, 2023 to secure a spot starting.
- On March 1, 2023, you will be contacted via email to register for one of three sessions. Please note, your tuition fee must be paid before enrolling in a workshop.
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Course Directors
Martin Pollak, MD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Chief, Division of Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Bradley M. Denker, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Clinical Chief, Renal Division Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Chief of Nephrology Associate, Chief of Medical Specialties, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Melanie P. Hoenig, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Course Director of Homeostasis II, Harvard Medical School, Staff Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Frequently Asked Questions
How will the course be presented?
This course will be livestreamed. All live-stream sessions are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and ABIM MOC points, as well as other relevant CME credits.
The course will be presented in its entirety and includes real-time audience-response questions, live demonstrations and interactive Q&A sessions allowing you to pose specific questions to our expert faculty via online chat.
Streaming instructions will be provided to course registrants.
Pricing
| Register On/Before February 10 | Register After February 10 |
| $1199 | $1299 |
5% discount applied during registration by using discount code SAVE5.
- At the end of the registration process, a $10 non-refundable processing fee will be added to your registration, and you will have the choice of paying by check, credit card (Visa, MasterCard, or American Express), or wire transfer in USD.
- If you are paying by check (draft on a United States bank) or by wire transfer, the online registration system will provide you with instructions for remitting your course fees.
- Postal, telephone, fax, and cash-payment registrations are not accepted.
- All fees are shown in USD.
What is the refund policy?
Refunds, less an administrative of $75 will be issued for all cancellations received two weeks before the start of the course.
Inquiries
Call:
(617) 384-8600 | Monday–Friday, 9am to 5pm (ET)
Email:
ceprograms@hms.harvard.edu