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Department of Veterans Affairs, Employee Education System and 10P11 - Specialty Care Services, Neurology jointly-provided with UCI School of Medicine presents

2020 Brain and Kidney Symposium

Agenda & Presentations

8 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

Veterans Affairs:
Glenn Graham, MD, PhD, Deputy National Director for Neurology, Specialty Care Services, VA Central Office, Washington, DC; Professor of Neurology, UCSF

School of Medicine UCI School of Medicine:
Vice Dean, Research: Suzanne B. Sandmeyer, PhD

Symposium Co-Directors:
Mark Fisher, MD, Professor of Neurology
Wei Ling Lau, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine/Nephrology

Session I: Fundamentals of Brain and Kidney Physiology

Moderators:
David Cribbs, PhD, Research Professor and Associate Director, UCI MIND
Rachita Sumbria, PhD, Associate Professor of Biophamaceutical Sciences, Keck Graduate Institute

8:15 a.m. Fundamentals of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) for Basic and Clinical Neuroscientists Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Chief of Nephrology
UCI School of Medicine
8:45 a.m. Brain and Kidney: Anatomical and Physiological Considerations 

Kumar Rajamani, MD
Professor of Neurology
Wayne State University School of Medicine

9:15 a.m. Cerebral Blood Flow in CKD Bernard Choi, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
UCI
Session II:  Stroke, Cognition and CKD Part 1 Moderators:
Claudia Kawas, MD, Professor of Neurology, UCI School of Medicine
Connie Rhee, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine/Nephrology, UCI School of Medicine
9:45 a.m. CKD and Dementia Indranil Dasgupta, MD
Professor and Consultant Nephrologist
University Hospitals Birmingham
NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
10:15 a.m.  CKD and Nutrition: Prevention of Stroke and Dementia J. David Spence, MD
Professor of Neurology and Clinical Pharmacology
Western University, Canada
10:45 a.m Stroke and CKD in Fabry Disease Daisy Tapia, MS, LGC
Genetic Counselor Fellow
UCI Health
11:15 a.m. Break /15 min Q&A from Zoom audience
Session III:  Fundamentals of Injury in the Brain and Kidney Moderators:
Frank Hsu, MD, Professor and Chair of Neurological Surgery, UCI School of Medicine Nosratola Vaziri, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine/Nephrology, UCI School of Medicine
11:30 a.m. Neuropathology of CKD Harry Vinters, MD
Professor of Pathology / Neuropathology
UCLA
12 p.m. Neuroimaging Considerations in CKD Daniel Chow, MD
Assistant Professor in Residence of Radiological Sciences
UCI School of Medicine
12:30 p.m. Mechanisms of Cerebral Microvascular Disease in CKD Mark Fisher, MD
Professor of Neurology
UCI School of Medicine
Session IV:  Neurological Disorders and CKD Branko Huisa-Garate, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, UCSD Madeleine Pahl, MD, Professor of Medicine/Nephrology, UCI School of Medicine
1 p.m. CKD and Epilepsy Mona Sazgar, MD
Professor of Neurology
UCI School of Medicine
1:30 p.m. CKD and Movement Disorders Bahman Jabbari, MD
Professor Emeritus of Neurology
Yale University
2 p.m. Sleep Disorders in CKD Ruth Benca, MD, PhD
Professor & Chair, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
UCI School of Medicine
2:30 p.m CKD in the Neuro-ICU Sara Stern-Nezer, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
UCI School of Medicine
3 p.m. Break /15 min Q&A from Zoom audience
Session V:  Stroke, Cognition and CKD Part 2 Susanne Nicholas, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine/Nephrology, UCLA Steven Schreiber, MD, Professor of Neurology, UCI; Chief of Neurology Service at Long Beach VA Health Care
3:15 p.m. Resolved: CKD is a Stroke Risk Factor (A Virtual Debate)

Yes: Angela Webster, MBBS, PhD, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology University of Sydney, Australia

No: Bruce Coull, MD, Professor of Neurology Judy Dawod, MD, Stroke Fellow University of Arizona Health Sciences 

4 p.m. Stroke Prevention in CKD  Wei Ling Lau, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine/Nephrology
UCI School of Medicine
4:30 p.m. Management of the Stroke Patient with CKD Michael Lyerly, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Medical Director
Birmingham VA Primary Stroke Center
5 p.m. Q&A from Zoom audience and Wrap-Up