THURSDAY 11^th FEBRUARY

PLENARY SESSION ONE

Professor Alan Cass - Economics of home-based dialysis therapies  

Dr Fiona Brown - Strategies to improve utilisation of Peritoneal Dialysis in Australia and New Zealand

CONCURRENT SESSION ONE 

Home Haemodialysis  

Dr Peter Hollett - Basic Home Dialysis Prescription

Dr Ashley Irish - Home HD prescriptions – what to do with anticoagulation
Dr Mark Marshall - Designer prescriptions in home haemodialysis

Home Haemodialysis

Dr Carolyn van Eps - Maximising Convective Clearance – Opportunities in the Home
Dr Ingrid Ledebo - Optimising Convective Clearance using the emerging Gambro Technology
Dr Feidhlim Woods - Optimising Convective Clearance using the emerging Fresenius Technology

Peritoneal Dialysis

Professor David Johnson - Reducing Infectious Complications in PD
Associate Professor Johan Rosman - Optimising solute and fluid clearance in PD
Dr Sunil Badve - Optimising phosphate clearance in PD                                                    

PLENARY SESSION TWO

Associate Professor Vlado Perkovic - Latest trials in home and extended HD

Associate Professor Bruce Culleton - Latest trials in PD (not available)

FRIDAY 12^th FEBRUARY

BREAKFAST SESSION

Lydia Lauder-  KHA Sponsored Survey Results – Opinions of Health Professionals working within Renal Area

PLENARY SESSION THREE

Associate Professor Bruce Culleton - Reducing the cardiovascular risk in home dialysis patients (not available)

Dr Ingrid Ledebo - Future development of dialysis – Focus on Innovation                            

CONCURRENT SESSION TWO

Home Haemodialysis

Professor Peter Kerr - Interpretation of tests for water purity / ISO standards

Dr Ingrid Ledebo - Ultrapure dialysis fluid: Standard of care?

Dr Feidhlim Woods - Bioimpedence as a standard of care in dialysis – tool or toy?               

Home Haemodialysis

Dr. Matthew Kwok-lung TONG - The Hong Kong Experience
Jane Nearhos / Elisabeth Hamernik - Debate: Cognitive assessment is mandatory prior to   referral to a home based therapy.

Jayne Stopa - Why patients won’t listen

Annerley Bates - Innovative ideas to support patients at home

Peritoneal Dialysis 

Dr Wai Lim - PD in the aboriginal patients at remote locations                          

Associate Professor Bruce Culleton - Improving Outcomes in Peritoneal Dialysis (n/a)                                                                      

Professor Kelvin Lynn - Why PD is still going strong in NZ?

CONCURRENT SESSION THREE

Home Haemodialysis

Professor  Peter Kerr - Debate: Buttonholing is the preferred method of cannulation
Professor John Agar - Debate: Buttonholing is the preferred method of cannulation
Dr Rosemary Masterson - Safety Risks in the Home
Professor Peter Kerr - Dialysis surveillance of the difficult vascular access 

Home Haemodialysis

Jane Nearhos - Setting boundaries with patients

Dr Feidhlim Woods - The wearable kidney

Associate Professor John Agar - Sorbent  and Nx Stage

Peritoneal Dialysis

Professor David Johnson - Debate: All PD patients should be transferred to HD when they lose RRF

Professor Randall Faull - Debate: All PD patients should be transferred to HD when they lose RRF

Dr Murty Mantha - Peritoneal Dialysis access issues

Dr Paul Snelling - APD for all?

WORKSHOP EVALUATION

ABSTRACT AWARDS