NKF Roadshow 2011

With thanks for support from

Thanks to the generosity of this year’s NKF Roadshow sponsor, Shire, the cost to each attending delegate has been subsidised by 25%.

Hilton Hotel, Blackpool, 7 - 9 October 2011

The Programme included:

• STEM CELL RESEARCH
• GENETICS
• HOME DIALYSIS
• TRANSPLANT
• LIVING WELL
• INTEGRATIVE HEALTH
• "STRICTLY" - NKF

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• Roadshow opening by Kirit Modi, NKF Vice Chairman
• Professor Richard Poulsom, DSc, FRCPath, Honorary Professor at Queen Mary University of London and Deputy Editor of The Journal of Pathology — Stem Cells and Kidney Regeneration
• Dr David Kavanagh, MD, PhD, — Genetics – Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome
• Dr Hilary Bekker, Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Sciences at the School of Medicine, University of Leeds and Dr Martin Wilkie, Consultant Nephrologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Honorary Reader in Nephrology at the University of Sheffield — Home Dialysis Patient Empowerment
• Mr Stephen Turner, patient speaker — My Choice
• Mr NR Parrott, MD, FRCS, Senior Lecturer in Surgery at Manchester University, — Paired/Pooled Kidney Transplantation
• Mr Paul and Mr Greg Sheehan, donor and recipient in paired exchange — Living and Giving
• Morning Question Time
• Trevor Cook, patient speaker and Chair of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Kidney Patients’ Association and the Lay Committee of Kidney Research UK — Living Well
• Professor Ray Winger, Emeritus Professor of Food Technology at Massey University in new Zealand — Diet
• Christine Gleadell, Managing Director of Freedom, the dialysis holiday specialist, — Holiday Dialysis Swap Scheme
• Dr JPA Delaney, PhD, CSCI, RIBMS, Principal Lecturer in Integrative health Studies at Wirral Metropolitan College and Associate Lecturer at Liverpool and Edge Hill Universities, — Integrative Health
• Afternoon Question Time
• Closing address by Kirit Modi, NKF Vice Chairman