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Kidney Supportive Care Masterclass 2024

Commencing in 2024, the Metro North Hospital and Health Service is hosting the Inaugural Australian Kidney Supportive Care Masterclass that will occur yearly, rotating between Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney. The program will cover core curriculum of Kidney Supportive Care and is aimed at any interdisciplinary health professional or academic who has an interest or is working with those living with advanced kidney disease.

The 2024 program is featuring local, National, and international expert speakers on topics related to the provision of Kidney Supportive Care including:

  • Fundamentals of Kidney Supportive Care
  • Conservative (non-dialysis) Management
  • Shared Decision Making
  • Moral Distress in Nephrology clinicians
  • Serious Illness communication Frameworks
  • Complex Symptom Management and much more!

Speaker highlights this year include:

Dr Sam Gelfand from Boston
Dr Josh Lakin from Boston

*tickets available for purchase from late September. 

Dr Gelfand Dr Sam Gelfand

Sam Gelfand is a nephrologist and palliative care specialist on the KidneyPal Team at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also the Associate Program Director of the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship.

Dr Josh Lakin Dr Josh Lakin

Dr. Lakin works as an attending physician on the inpatient palliative care consult service and intensive palliative care unit at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and serves as the director for the KidneyPal palliative care service as well as teaching at the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care. In terms of research pursuits, Dr. Lakin is interested in working to build scalable and measurable models for delivering palliative care, especially high-quality serious illness communication.

Meet the Australian KSC Masterclass Organising Committee

Nephrology and Palliative Care Medical and Nursing Clinicians across Australia have joined together to create the Inaugural Australian Kidney Supportive Care Masterclass.

Dr Frank Brennan

Dr Frank BrennanFrank Brennan is a Palliative Care Physician employed within the Department of Nephrology at St George Hospital in Sydney in a Renal Supportive Care Service. He participated in a KDIGO Controversies Conference on Renal Supportive Care and was a co-author of their recommendations. He is the current convenor of a Renal Supportive Care Interest Group comprising Nephrologists and Palliative Care Physicians.

Dr Kirsten Hepburn

Dr Kirsten Hepburn is a Nephrologist with a Clinical Diploma of Palliative Medicine and a special interest in Kidney Supportive Care. She is employed as a General Nephrologist and Kidney Supportive Care Nephrologist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital / Metro North Hospital and Health Service. She is currently the acting co-chair of the ANZSPM and ANZSN Kidney Supportive Care Special Interest Group. She has been involved in delivering Kidney Supportive Care education sessions around Australia

Dr Kelly Li

Dr Kelly Li is a dual trained nephrologist and palliative care physician, working in the Kidney Supportive Care service at St George Hospital in Sydney. She has a special interest in bioethics, advance care planning, and communication within the healthcare setting.

Keynote speaker – Dr Kathryn Ducharlet

Keynote speaker Dr Kathryn Ducharlet

Dr Kathryn Ducharlet is a renal physician and completed her medical degree with honors at the University of Melbourne and has completed a PhD in Kidney Supportive Care also at Melbourne University. She was awarded the Rowden White Prize in 2017 for academic excellence. She is the co-chair of the Kidney Supportive Care special interest group which aims to improve quality of life for all people with advanced kidney disease in Australia and New Zealand

Ms Laura AustinLaura Austin Laura is a registered Nurse who has worked across a variety of areas in nephrology for over 18 years, specialising in Kidney Supportive Care for the past 8. Completing her Nursing Master’s Degree in 2015 and currently completing a postgraduate certificate in Palliative care.

This years presentations

TIME SESSION PRESENTER | FACILITATOR
8.30am Registration and Networking
SESSION 1:  (Chair: Catriona Bisset)
9.00am Acknowledgment of Country Mr Geoff Binge
Cultural Capability Officer
9.05am Welcome & Overview of Masterclass Dr Kirsten Hepburn
9.10am Fundamentals of KSC & Conservative Management Dr Kelly Li
9.50am Shared Decision Making Dr Sarah Tan
10.20am Morning Tea / Networking & Exhibition Tables
SESSION 2: (Chair: Dr Carol Douglas)
10.50am  Palliative Care for the Transplant Patient Dr Samantha Gelfand & Kate Sciacca
11.25am Moral Distress in Nephrology clinicians Dr Samantha Gelfand & Kate Sciacca
12.00pm Serious Illness Communication Frameworks Dr Josh Lakin
12.30pm Advance Care Planning Ms Ilse Berquier
1.00pm Lunch
SESSION 3: (Chair: Michelle Scuderi)
1.45pm Dialysis Withdrawal Dr Kirsten Hepburn
2.20pm Palliative Care for patients with advanced CKD: Development of a renal supportive care service in Scotland Dr Claire Douglas
2.50pm Short Break
3.10pm GI Nausea/Vomiting/Anorexia Dietician
3.45pm Insomnia – Sleep Well Program Clare Pekin
4.20pm Pain Management (calciphylaxis case studies) Dr Katrina Kramer
4.50pm Closing Summation and Evaluations Dr Kirsten Hepburn
4.55pm Please join us for some drinks and canapes

Exhibition Partners

Silver Exhibition partners

CSL Seqirus

Bronze Exhibition partners

Boehringer Ingelheim Logo - Dark Green

22nd November 2024

Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Education Centre
Butterfield Street
Herston, QLD 4029

Time: 8:30am to 5:00pm (AEST)

Contact

Email: MNHHS_KSC_Symposium
@health.qld.gov.au

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