Funding for the event includes a session sponsored by Bayer plc. However, the sessions led by Dr. Holmes and Dr. Fernando are entirely independent and not influenced by external sponsorship.
CVRMUK Webinar: Joining the dots in chronic kidney disease treatment
Join us on Friday 11th October 2024 – 12:00-14:00
This webinar will explore cutting-edge clinical advances and national guidelines for cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic diseases.
Please join our expert panel of speakers who will discuss Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and currently available treatments. This webinar will consider CKD from a CVRM perspective and will cover the interaction of CKD with type 2 diabetes and the increased cardiovascular risk associated with CKD. There will be practical tips and patient case studies to illustrate best practice in this complex area.
If you're in the field of cardiovascular, renal, or metabolic medicine, this webinar is for you. Invitations are open to:
- Cardiologist or cardiology nurse
- Diabetologist or diabetes nurse
- GPER in diabetes
- Nephrologist or renal nurse
- Lipidologist or lipid nurse
- GPSI Cardiology
- Clinical pharmacist
- Physician associate
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Agenda
Friday 11th October 2024
12:00
Welcome and introductions
Speakers:
Dr Kevin Fernando, GP Partner North Berwick Health Centre, GP with Specialist Interest in CVRM
Dr Patrick Holmes, GP Partner, St. George’s Medical Practice
12:05
Session 1: Primary care management of chronic kidney disease in people with diabetes
Speaker:
Dr Kevin Fernando, GP Partner North Berwick Health Centre, GP with Specialist Interest in CVRM
12:45
Promotional symposium – Bayer UK. Optimising management of CKD associated with T2D: putting the evidence into practice
Speaker:
Professor Jim Burton, Honorary Consultant Nephrologist and Professor of Renal Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the University of Leicester
RP-KER-GB-0971, September 2024
13:15
Session 2: Working better together: What do primary care HCPs need from their local nephrologist?
Speaker:
Dr Patrick Holmes, GP Partner, St. George’s Medical Practice
13:45
Panel Q&A
All speakers
*Agenda subject to change
Speakers
Dr Kevin Fernando
FAcadMEd MSc Diabetes, GP Partner North Berwick Health Centre, GP with Specialist Interest in CVRM & Medical Education, Content Advisor for WebMD Medscape Global & UK and Honorary Clinical Reader at the University of Dundee
Kevin is a part-time GP Partner working at North Berwick Health Centre, near Edinburgh. Kevin is also Scottish lead of the Primary Care Diabetes Society, Content Advisor for WebMD Medscape Global & UK and a co-founder of GoggleDocs.
Kevin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and holds both MRCGP and MRCP(UK) qualifications and has completed a Master’s degree in diabetes which he passed with distinction.
Kevin has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and also the Academy of Medical Educators for his work in diabetes and medical education.
Dr Patrick Holmes
MB BS, MSc, DipTher, MRCGP
Dr. Holmes has been a GP Partner at St. George’s Medical Practice, Darlington for 25 years. He is a local clinical commissioner for diabetes.
He is North-East & North Cumbria Diabetes Clinical Network Primary Care Lead, Primary Care Diabetes NIHR Research Lead for the North East and Associate Editor for Diabetic Medicine and member of the UKKA SGLT2i in Chronic Kidney Disease 20212 & 2023 writing group.
He is an active participant of GoggleDocs (www.goggledocs.co.uk), an innovative group of medical educators working in the SoMe space.
His clinical interests are adult type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease prevention and chronic kidney disease.
Twitter: @drpatrickholmes
Professor Jim Burton
Professor of Renal Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the University of Leicester & Honorary Consultant Nephrologist
James Burton is Professor of Renal Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the University of Leicester as well as an Honorary Consultant Nephrologist. He is the Clinical Vice President of the UK Kidney Association and through both the UKKA and KDIGO, is involved in clinical guideline development for patients with kidney disease. He sits on a number of UK Kidney Research Consortium Clinical Study Groups and is a member of the UK Renal Trials Network.
His research portfolio includes mechanisms behind the development of uraemic cardiovascular disease through to interventional clinical trials to improve patient outcomes; his clinical work with dialysis patients has been shortlisted for three NHS Innovation awards.
Prices
This event is free for all delegates.