Nephrology Education Day
Friday March 28th, 2008
Hotel Intercontinental - Yorkville
Toronto, Ontario

The RPN will be hosting an education day for pharmacists working directly with nephrology patients to gain further insights into therapeutic issues in the renal area. Come out for a day of education related to your specific area of practice and interact with your fellow renal pharmacists.

Registration Deadline - February 29th, 2008

• Registration and Agenda
• Hotel Information
• $25 Registration fee includes all educational materials, refreshments and meals

Prevention in Renal Disease (Toronto, Ontario) September 28 and 29
For more information please visit www.nephroprevention.com

Renal Pharmacist Network - Educational Evening
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Sunnybrook Vaughan Estates - Valleyanna room
Toronto, Ontario [map and directions]

Guest Speaker: Dr. Joanne Bargman
Title: The Importance of Residual Renal Function in dialysis Patients
Learning Objectives:
1) To Understand the Evidence Linking Residual Renal Function to Survival in Dialysis Patients
2) To Learn about the Possible Reasons that Renal Function is Associated with Survival Benefit
3) To Learn about Strategies to Preserve Residual Renal Function in these Patients

Bio: Dr. Bargman received her MD cum laude from the University of Toronto, and completed postdoctoral studies in Melbourne, Australia and Stanford University in the United States. She is Director of the Peritoneal Dialysis Unit and co-director of the Renal-Rheumatology Lupus Clinic at the University Health Network in Toronto. She has a longstanding interest in peritoneal dialysis and has published numerous papers and book chapters related to this. Dr. Bargman is co-author of the chapter on Chronic Kidney Disease in the forthcoming edition of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. She has won numerous teaching awards at the departmental level and faculty-wide awards for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

6:00 pm Registration and Refreshments
6:30 pm Presentation
7:30 pm Dinner

Renal Pharmacist Educational Evening
Tuesday May 9, 2006
Holiday Inn Yorkdale (located at Dufferin St and Hwy. 401)
Toronto, Ontario [ map and directions ]

Guest Speaker: Dr. Charmaine Lok
Title: Put the cap on citrate when the heparin hat doesn't fit

Bio: Dr. Lok received her medical degree at McMaster University and did her internal medicine and nephrology training at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lok trained in the Clinician Investigator Program at U of T and obtained her Master's Degree in Clinical Epidemiology at Harvard University. Before becoming a physician, Dr. Lok practiced as a physical therapist (received her degree at U of T).

Currently, Dr. Lok is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and Staff Nephrologist at the University Health Network - Toronto General Hospital. At UHN, she is the Medical Director of the Renal Management and Hemodialysis Vascular Access programs. Dr. Lok is an affiliate scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute in the Division of Clinical Decision Making and Health Care and continues to collaborate on research at The Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Her research interests are clinical outcomes in patients with chronic and endstage renal disease, with a current focus on hemodialysis vascular access.

Dr. Lok's biggest challenge is her 2 young, energetic daughters!

6:00pm Registration and Refreshments
6:30pm Presentation
7:15pm Q&A
Dinner to follow

European Society of Clinical Pharmacy
May 25-27, 2006
Vilnius, Lithuania
Chronic disease management:The role of the pharmacist
http://www.associationhq.com/escp/baltic/defaultWin.htm

The 11th Congress of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis
August 26-29, 2006
Hong Kong

Nephrology for Health Care Providers
Wednesday October 5th, 2005 Peterborough, ON
Download Brochure (143KB, PDF)

CDA/CSEM Professional Conference and Annual Meeting
October 19-22, 2005
Edmonton, AB
http://www.diabetes.ca//Section_Professionals/profconf2005.asp

CSHP Professional Practice Conference 2006
January 28 to February 1, 2006
Toronto, Ontario
http://www.cshp.ca/events/cshpEvents_e.asp