WE ARE GOING HYBRID!

Invitation to Attend

Nau mai, haere mai ki tenei hui mo te ANZSN Aotearoa New Zealand Group.

On behalf of the Organising Committee, we invite you to attend the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology Aotearoa New Zealand Group meeting.  

The 2021 ANZSN Aotearoa New Zealand Group Meeting, due to be held in October 2021 has been postponed until the first part of 2022 due to the ongoing lockdowns in Auckland. We are looking forward to welcoming participants from across Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia and gathering our member and guests in person at the Sofitel Auckland in March 2022.

Please check in to our program regularly for updates and please let your team members who might be interested know about the meeting. This includes nursing staff, coordinators, dietitians and technicians.

FRACP trainees are invited to submit abstracts related to training projects for selection in the Bruce Morrison Award section. Abstract submissions are now open! To find out more about the prize and to submit an abstract, please click here.

A conference dinner will be held on the second evening and will be a chance for us to all catch up.

Thank you to Dr David Voss, Chair of the Local Organising Committee and Committee members Dr Jun Suh, Daniel Lin, Tina Sun and Jonathan Hsiao for all their hard work to date.

Nā,

Suetonia Palmer, Convener of the Aotearoa NZ Nephrology group

Accommodation FULL Saturday night. Friday night spots are still available.

ONLINE REGISTRATION

Standard
Full Registration $600
Registrar $550
Nurse & Allied Health Professionals $350

Please note registration payments will need to be paid by credit card. If you are unable to do so, please contact mail@conferencedesign.com.au
Registration terms and conditions

ONSITE REGISTRATION (LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE)

Early
(ends 21 Jan)
Standard
Full Registration $700 $800
Registrar $650 $750
Nurse & Allied Health Professionals $450 $550

Platinum Partner

Pharmacor is one of the leading generic pharmaceutical companies in Australia supplying high-quality prescription and over-the-counter medicines since 2007. Our headquarter is based in Sydney, NSW.

Through the support of our parent company, Alkem Laboratories Limited, we are focussed on a robust pipeline forecasted for the next decade. Pharmacor has proven success in launching first generics to market such as Cinacalcet, Rasagiline, Ezetimibe, Gliclazide and Paracetamol sustained release.

With global presence in over 50 countries, Alkem proudly operates 21 manufacturing facilities for both active material and finished products, and a passionate Research and Development team of over 500 scientists, in India and the United States. New ventures are presently being explored at Alkem’s subsidiaries, Enzene Biosciences, Maharashtra, and Norac Pharma, California, which offer biosimilars and controlled substance manufacturing, respectively.

Together, we are building a legacy in providing greater access to a wide range of therapeutic categories of medicine in Australia and around the world. Our mission at Pharmacor is ensuring Australians receive affordable, timely access to essential medicines without premium prices as Pharmacor proudly supplies over 100 medicines through PBS today, and will continue to grow in the future.

For more information about who we are, visit www.alkemlabs.com and www.pharmacor.com.au.

Gold Partner

Fresenius Medical Care is the world’s leading provider of products and services for people with chronic kidney failure. Around 3.7 million patients with this disease worldwide regularly undergo dialysis treatment.

We care for more than 346,000 patients in our global network of more than 4,000 dialysis clinics and operate 44 production sites; to provide dialysis products such as dialysis machines, dialyzers and related disposables.

The company’s strategy is geared toward sustainable growth. We aim to continuously improve patients’ quality of life by offering innovative products with varied treatment concepts, creating a future worth living.

Silver Partner

bioMérieux is a multi-national diagnostic company that has been a leader in the world of in-vitro diagnostics for >50 years.

We develop tests that bring high medical value for clinical decisions in the areas of infectious diseases, cardiovascular emergencies, targeted cancers and Womens’ Health and have recently added NEPHROCHECK® to help identify patients at risk of developing Acute Kidney Injury to our portfolio.

Our company is determined to continue to play a pioneering role by innovating and designing the diagnostics of the future to address the major challenges for public health worldwide.

Preliminary Program

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Day 1  – Friday 4th March 2022
12:00 – 12.55 Registration
OPENING PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Jonathan Hsiao
12:55 – 13:00

Opening Address & Welcome

David Voss
Renal Physician | Counties Manukau Health

13:00 – 13:40

Tesla Nephrology

Katherine Barraclough
Consultant Nephrologist | Royal Melbourne Hospital

13:40 – 14:15

Sustainable dialysis practice: what we need to know and what we have been doing

Jason Wei
Senior Clinical Physiologist, Technical Advisor | Auckland City Hospital

14:15 – 15:00

Regenerative Healthcare from Policy to Action

Debbie Wilson
Principal Sustainability Advisor | Asset Management & Analysis, Health Infrastructure Unit, Ministry of Health

15:00 – 15:20 Afternoon Tea
PLENARY SESSION #2
Chair: David Voss
15:20 – 16:00

Chronic kidney disease population level analyses for the Auckland metropolitan region

Wing Chan
Physician | Counties Manukau DHB health team

16:00 – 16:30

Equity and efficiency

Chris Hood
Clinical Director Medicine | Counties Manukau Health

16:30 – 17:30

NZ Group Business Meeting

Drew Henderson
Head Of Department | Waikato Dhb

17:30 – 19:00 Welcome Reception
Day 2 – Saturday 5th March 2022
PLENARY SESSION #3
Chair: Jun Sun
08:00 – 08:25

Water Preservation in Dialysis

Mari Doss
Professional Leader for Clinical Renal Physiologist | Counties Manukau Health

08:25 – 09:00

Plant-based diets

Fuchsia Goldsmith
Renal Dietitian | Waitemata DHB, North Shore Hospital

09:00 – 09:25

Reuse of RO water in Australia

Dr Mani Panat
Senior Consultant Nephrologist | Tamworth Hospital

09:25 – 10:00

The prevalence of CKD in the Samoan population living in Auckland

Rob Walker
Professor of Medicine |University Of Otago

10.00 – 10.20 Morning Tea
PLENARY SESSION #4
Chair: Tina Sun
10:20 – 10:30

M-FIT trial report

Carmel Hawley
Consultant Nephrology |Princess Alexandra Hospital

10:30- 10:35

Registrar training

Sine Donnellan

10:35- 12:00 Bruce Morrison Prize
Presentations will consist of 15-minute oral presentations followed by 5 minutes for Q&A.Julia Jefferis
Registrar | Princess Alexandra HospitalMichael Funnell
Registrar | Tauranga Hospital

Raymond Chan
Registrar | Capital And Coast DHB

Ritesh Chandra
Registrar | Auckland District Health Board

Christopher Xu
Renal Trainee | Alfred Hospital

Theodora Yiu
Registrar | Counties Manukau District Health Board

12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
PLENARY SESSION # 5
Chair: Daniel Lin
13:30 – 14:00

LIVE DONATE NZ cohort study

Lai Chan
Nephrologist | Waikato Dhb

14:00 – 14:25

Beat calci-Trial

Janak de Zoysa
Nephrologist | Waitemata DHB

14:25 – 14:50

Membranous Trial Proposal

Bhadran Bose
Senior Staff Specialist | Nepean Hospital

14:50 – 15:15

Beat BK Trial

Helen Pilmore
Consultant Nephrologist | Auckland Hospital

15:15 – 15:40

Experimental model for understanding and treatment of muscle cramp

Luke Wilson
Senior Research Fellow | University Of Otago

15:40 – 16:10 Afternoon Tea
PLENARY SESSION #6
Chair: Daniel Lin
16:10 – 16:40

ASSET Study

Angela Webster & Dr Nicole De La Mata
Westmed Hospital & The University of Sydney 

16:40 – 17:15

National Transplant service- allocation algorithm change and changes coming up with the health system reforms

Nick Cross
Clinical Director, Canterbury District Health Board 

19:30 – 23:00 Conference Dinner
Day 3 – Sunday 6th March 2022
PLENARY SESSION #7
Chair: David Voss
08:00 – 08:05

Welcome

David Voss
Renal Physician | Counties Manukau Health

08:05 – 08:25

Fellowship – Vancouver

Jun Suh
Renal Physician | Counties Manukau Health

08:25- 08:50

Being a transplant nephrologist

Jafar Ahmed
Renal Physician | Auckland City Hospital

08:50 – 09:10

Working in a smaller centre

Helen Eddington
Renal Consultant | Bopdhb

09:10 – 09:30

Being an interventional nephrologist

David Voss
Renal Physician | Counties Manukau Health

09:30 – 10:00

Nutrition Care for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

Jenny Robb
Dietitian | Auckland District Health Board

10:00 – 10:30

Renal stone disease

Lyn Lloyd
Renal Dietitian | Auckland District Health Board

10:30 – 11:15

Basic renal Histology cases

Jonathan Zwi
Auckland District Health Board

11:15 – 11:45

Hyponatraemia

Jasmine Tan
Consultant Endocrinologist & Nephrologist | Counties Manukau District Health Board & Auckland District Health Board

11:45 – 12:15

Basic statistics

Mark Marshall

12:15 – 14:00 Lunch
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