Post-Conference Meeting
Sponsored by the ISN

Renal Disease in Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups
An official post-conference meeting of the ASN/ISN World Congress of Nephrology
Sponsored by the International Society of Nephrology, the American Society of Nephrology and the NIH/NIDDK

The Eldorado Hotel
Santa Fe, New Mexico
October 19-20, 2001

The meeting will be held in a plenary session. Posters are invited and will be displayed concurrently. Prizes will be offered for the best poster, judged on site.

The registration fee is $150 (US).

The increasing epidemic of progressive renal disease in the developing world is still largely unappreciated, as is the contribution that renal disease makes to other chronic health problems such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. This post-conference meeting joins those who are researching the basis of renal disease with practitioners working in the field, both in the formal sessions of the meeting and informally in the city of Santa Fe. The meeting aims to build a bridge from nephrologists to patients, the governments and funding agencies who all support the continuing struggle against kidney disease.

The program will cover the following topics:

• Current position in emerging countries worldwide
• Pathophysiology (including diabetes, infection, hypertension and fetal origins of disease
• Screening programs
• Disease registration
• Prevention strategies
• Dialysis
• Renal transplantation
• Health economics
• Social issues
• Role of governments and national and international funding agencies
• Development of consensus document and future directions

President: Barry Brenner
Chairman: John Dirks
Program Director: David Pugsley

More details on the program and registration forms will be posted on this and the Congress Web site as new information becomes available. For more information on this meeting, or to be placed on the mailing list, please contact Dr. David Pugsley at [email protected] or fax 61 8 8222 6026 or by mail at Renal Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, 5011 AUSTRALIA

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