Category Archives: Patient Meetings

NW16 3/1 NKF Community Symposium, Portland

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NKF will present their Annual Kidney Community Symposium in Portland on March 1, 2020, featuring sessions on The Future of Kidney Care, Home Dialysis, Living Donation, and the presentation of the Elizabeth Kemble Friends of the Kidney Community Award.  For details and registration, see https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nwrn.org/files/N/PKG/PKG2020PtSymp.pdf.

12/7 First AAKP Annual Fun Walk

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AAKP will celebrate their 50th Anniversary on December 7, 2019 by initiating their first AAKP Annual Fun Walk.  The formal celebration will take place in Tampa Bay FL with a one-mile walk, music, exhibitors, and family fun activities, but you can celebrate by yourself or as a team wherever you are, nationally, globally, or virtually, by staging your own Fun Walk.  For details see https://aakp.org/programs-and-events/fun-walk/.

12/3+ UCLA CORE Kidney Program and UKEEP

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UCLA’s CORE Kidney Program has announced the timing of their next several webinars, UKEEP meetings, and annual Kidney Fair at the Beach.  They will present:

  • A December 3, 2019 webinar on the UCLA CORE Kidney Program itself called Giving Tuesday; find a poster about it, with registration information, at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nwrn.org/files/N/UKEEP/UCLACore120719.pdf.
  • A December 8, 2019 UKEEP meeting on Drugs and Medications: What You Need to Know.
  • A January 16, 2020 webinar on High Blood Pressure: What You Need to Know.
  • A February 13, 2020 webinar on Living Kidney Donation.
  • Their May 17, 2020 Kidney Fair at the Beach.

For more information on these and to RSVP, see https://www.uclahealth.org/core-kidney/upcoming-events.

NW16 11/4+ NKF/PKG Holiday Party in Portland

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NKF and the Portland Kidney Group will host its Annual Holiday Party November 10, 2019 in Portland OR.  Food and drinks will be provided, and family and friends are invited.  The party will feature a dietitian talking about hearty but kidney-friendly holiday cooking.  Volunteers are needed to help get everything ready.  You’re asked to RSVP by November 4, 2019.  Find more information on the Party, on volunteering, and on how to RSVP, at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nwrn.org/files/N/PKG/PKG1119.pdf.

NW16 9/21 Free Patient Workshop on Modalities

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Home Dialyzors United, Comagine Health ESRD Network 16, and other sponsors will present a free September 21, 2019 all-day patient educational meeting on home dialysis and transplant in Puyallup WA, called Going Home, Staying Home.  The meeting will include sessions on patient priorities, home modalities, patient safety at home, how the Network can help, a panel on transplants, and a real-time support group.  For details see these resources:

NW16 9/21 Patient Workshop on Home Dialysis and Transplant

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Home Dialyzors United, Comagine Health ESRD Network 16, and other sponsors will present a free September 21, 2019 all-day patient educational meeting on home dialysis and transplant in Puyallup WA, called Going Home, Staying Home.  The meeting will include sessions on patient priorities, home modalities, patient safety at home, how the Network can help, a panel on transplants, and a real-time support group.  For details see these resources:

NW16 9/21 Educational Meeting on Home Dialysis

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Home Dialyzors United, Comagine Health ESRD Network 16, and other sponsors will present a September 21, 2019 all-day patient educational meeting on home dialysis in Puyallup WA, called Going Home, Staying Home.  The meeting will include sessions on patient priorities, home modalities, patient safety at home, how the Network can help, a panel on transplants, and a real-time support group.  For details see the poster at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nwrn.org/files/N/HDU/HDU.082119.pdf.  Find HDU’s web page on it at https://www.homedialyzorsunited.org/patient-education, and register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-day-patient-education-seminar-tickets-69449765117.