Registration, Check In, Breakfast

Welcome

Babak John Orandi

Keynote 1: Title Forthcoming

Panel I: Weight Management and Loss Pre-Transplant

Plant-based Diets for Kidney Transplant Candidates – Shivam Joshi, JD, NYU Langone Health

“Dying to be Thinner”: Identifying High-Risk Weight Loss in End-Stage Kidney Disease - Meera Nair Harhay, MD, MSCE, Drexel University

Practice Guidelines for Nutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease – Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PhD, UCLA Irvine

Break

Panel II: Bariatric Surgery for Pre-Transplant Weight Loss

Effectiveness and Safety of Non-Surgical and Surgical Weight Loss in Kidney Transplant Candidates – Mary Ann Lim, MD, University of Pennsylvania

Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Renal Patients – Kristoffel Dumond, MD, FACS, University of Pennsylvania

Bariatric Surgery in End-Stage Renal Disease: Risks and Rewards - Nabil Tariq, MD, FACS, Houston Methodist Hospital

Carel Le Roux

Keynote 2: 15% Weight Loss Should Now Become the Target for Patients with Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease

15% Weight Loss Should Now Become the Target for Patients with Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease – Carel le Roux, University College, Dublin, Ireland

Lunch

Panel III: Patient Experiences – Weight Loss Challenges and Successes

Patient Panelists: Matthew Fasbinder, Ingrid Cruz, Susan Bennett

Panel IV: Transplant Surgery for Patients with Moderate and Severe Obesity

Changing Perspectives for Kidney Transplant in Patients with Elevated BMI – Mary Killackey, MD, Tulane University

The Long and Short of Transplant Outcomes, through Thick and Thin - Rita McGill, MD, MS, University of Chicago Medicine

Robotic Transplant Surgery at VCU – Amit Sharma, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Break

Workshop to Develop Consensus and Research Agenda

Closing

Reception