“New Developments in Renal Disease”

Please note: change to timings for start, lunch and finish

Session 1:

11:30     Dr Ann Leonard, Quality Innovation Manager & Professor Gerard Boran, Consultant Chemical Pathologist, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin - The CELTIC ranges project (comprehensive and effective laboratory test reference intervals for Irish children)

12:00     Professor Paul Cockwell, Consultant Nephrologist, University Hospitals Birmingham & President UK Kidney Association - Removing ethnicity correction from creatinine eGFR calculation

12:30     Dr Jinny Jeffery, Clinical Scientist, University Hospitals Plymouth - Analytical interference of TPN fluid in creatinine assays

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch      

Session 2:

14:00     Dr Wayne Thomas, Consultant Haematologist, University Hospitals Plymouth - Functional iron deficiency

14:30     Dr Rachel Marrington, Consultant Clinical Scientist & Deputy Director, Birmingham Quality - Lessons from the UKNEQAS AKI and CKD scheme

15:00     Dr Rupert Major, Consultant Nephrologist, University Hospitals of Leicester - Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE)

15:30     Close