The Patient Driven Support Group will hold a patient support group meeting in Ontario CA on September 24, 2017. Details follow:
Category Archives: Patient Meetings
8/20 NW NKF Wellness Fair
NKF and the Portland Kidney Group will present their Annual Community Picnic & Kidney Wellness Fair in Portland on August 20, 2017. Bring your family, friends, and appetite, and don’t forget to RSVP. Find full details at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nwrn.org/files/N/PKG.Picnic.0817.pdf .
8/16+ AAKP Hotel Deadline
The deadline to receive the group rate for your stay at the conference hotel for the 2017 AAKP Patient Meeting is August 16, 2017. The Meeting will be held in St. Petersburg FL September 8-10, 2017.
- Make your hotel reservations at https://aws.passkey.com/event/49072138/owner/6106/home .
- Find the Meeting agenda at https://aakp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Conv_broch2017_final_digital.pdf .
- Find more information and register at https://aakp.org/national-patient-meeting/ .
Up to 10.5 continuing education credits are available to nurses, social workers, technicians and dietitians who attend.
8/10 NW18 Nutrition Talk
The Westside Kidney Support Group will hold an August 10, 2017 talk on What About Nutrition? in Playa Vista CA. See below for details:
8/16+ NW16 PKD Events, Seattle
The Seattle Chapter of the PKD Foundation will host an August 16, 2017 Coffee Chat in Factoria (Bellevue WA) to promote networking among people affected by PKD. The discussion is informal, but a topic or guest speaker is usual. For details and to sign up, see http://support.pkdcure.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=101732 . These events are held more or less monthly; the next one will be September 10, 2017. Watch https://pkdcure.org/chapter/seattle/ for details.
The PKD Foundation will also sponsor an August 19, 2017 Seattle Friends & Family Potluck Picnic & Lemonade Stand, in Seward Park (Seattle). Find more information at http://support.pkdcure.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=101846 .
The Foundation will also sponsor the three-mile Seattle Walk for PKD on October 1, 2017 at Green Lake (Seattle). For details, posters, to register for the Walk or the associated Penny Kids Dash, and to donate, see http://support.pkdcure.org/site/TR/Walk/WalkforPKD?fr_id=1766&pg=entry . So far they have pledges of $10,000 for the Walk, and they seek at lease $45,000 more to support PKD research and create better lives for those impacted by polycystic kidney disease.
8/20 NW NKF Wellness Fair Portland
NKF and the Portland Kidney Group will present their Annual Community Picnic & Kidney Wellness Fair in Portland on August 20, 2017. Bring your family, friends, and appetite, and don’t forget to RSVP. Volunteers will be appreciated. Find full details at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nwrn.org/files/N/PKG.Picnic.0817.pdf .
Patient Peer Mentoring
The Portland Kidney Group offers Peer Support for dialysis patients of all modalities, and transplant donors and recipients.
PKG and NKF will also sponsor the annual Kidney Wellness Fair & Community Picnic on August 20, 2017, and the 8th Anniversary Holiday Gathering on November 5, 2017, in Portland OR.
For details on all three, see the 2017 PKG Calendar at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nwrn.org/files/N/PKG2017.pdf .
