Annual Meeting

Virtual ASN Kidney Week 2020 – WashU Nephrology Calendar

ASN Kidney Week 2020 Reimagined debuts as a fully virtual meeting October 19-21 (early programs) and October 22-25 (annual meeting) and will consist of a variety of simulive, live-streamed, and on-demand sessions/posters/exhibits.  

All meeting content will be available on the Kidney Week Reimagined website until December 4, 2020.  Simulive and live-streamed educational content will be scheduled in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) in the United States.  All content will be recorded and made available on-demand within one hour.   Abstracts will be available on the ASN website and will remain online for approximately one year.

Below is a list of our speakers, poster presentations and more!

Benjamin Humphreys, MD, PhD, FASN


Chief, Division of Nephrology; @HumphreysLab

1. Course Co-Chair

-Course Title: Advances in Research Conference: Single-Cell Biology
Wednesday, October 14; 12 pm – 7 pm, EDT

This program will feature live, interactive sessions and will be available on-demand.

2. Lecture (Live-Streamed/On-Demand)

– Session Title: Advances in Research Conference: Single-Cell Biology – II. Human Kidney Disease
Wednesday, October 14; 12 pm – 6 pm, EDT

– Lecture Title: Human Kidney Disease Mapping

3. Lecture (Simulive)

– Session Title: We Discovered Some Genes and Loci, Now What? Applied Genomics in Nephrology 
Saturday, October 24; 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, EDT

– Lecture Title: Single-Cell Genomics to Screen and Dissect Genomic Hits (10:30 am – 11:00 am)

Lisa Koester-Wiedemann, ANP, CNN-NP

Renal Nurse Practitioner

1. Lecture (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Maintenance Dialysis
Wednesday, October 14; 12 pm – 6 pm, EDT

– Lecture Title:  Home Dialysis Training: Patient and Family Considerations

This Early Program session includes pre-recorded content that is made available to participants on October 14 at 12 pm, EDT, through December 4, 2020

2. Live-Stream Discussion

-Session: Open discussion with experts in the field of Home Dialysis
Tuesday, October 20; 10:35 am – 11:20 am, EDT

Anitha Vijayan, MD, FASN

Professor of Medicine; @VijayanMD

1. Lecture (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Critical Care Nephrology: 2020 Update
Wednesday, October 14; 12 pm – 6 pm, EDT
– Lecture Title: Using Prolonged Intermittent RRT in the Intensive Care Unit: How Do I Prescribe It?  When Do I Use It?

This Early Program session includes pre-recorded content that is made available to participants on October 14 at 12 pm, EDT, through December 4, 2020

2. Moderator (Simulive)

– Session Title: Critical Illness and AKI in COVID-19: What Have We Learned?
Thursday, October 22; 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, EDT

3. Lecture (Simulive)

– Session Title: Prescribing Acute RRT in 2020: What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn
Saturday, October 24; 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm, EDT

– Lecture Title: Getting the Most Out of Intermittent RRT (3:30 pm – 4:00 pm, EDT)

Parker Wilson, MD, PhD

Instructor, Pathology & Immunology; @parkercwilson

Oral Abstract Presentation (Live-Streamed)

– Session Title: Basic Research Forum for Emerging Kidney Scientists: A Partnership Between APS and ASN
Wednesday, October 21; 8:45 am – 5:45 pm, EDT

– Presentation Title: Integrated Single Nucleus RNA and ATAC-seq Implicate cis-Regulatory Chromatin Interactions that Promote Gluconeogenesis in the Human Diabetic Proximal Tubule (10:20 am – 10:30 pm, EDT)

Anuja Java, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

@anuja_java

Moderator (On-Demand)

-Session Title: Thrombotic Microangiopathy in 2020: Complement at the Forefront
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, EDT

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Jeffrey Miner, PhD, FASN

Professor of Medicine; @JeffMinerPhD

Lecture (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Alport Syndrome: Basic Science and Clinical Practice
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, EDT

– Lecture Title:  Alport Syndrome: Review of Recent Insights from Basic Science Studies (10:30 am – 11:00 am, EDT)

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Timothy Yau, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine; @Maximal_Change

Lecture (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Embracing Technology: Nephrology 2.0
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, EDT

– Lecture Title: Innovating the Way We Teach and Learn Nephrology via Social Media (10:30 AM -11:00 AM, EDT)

Dr. Andy Chuu

Andy Chuu, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine; @ChuuAndy 

Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Hemodialysis and Frequent Dialysis – 4
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: The Effect of Intra-dialytic Potassium and Magnesium Fluctuations on Cardiovascular Functioning in ESRD Patients Undergoing In Center Hemodialysis

Authors: Andy Chuu, Gonzalo Matzumura Umemoto, Michael Rauchman, Frank J O’Brien

– ePoster #PO1228

Eileen Ciccia, MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Hypertension & Pheresis
Co-Director, Renal Replacement Program

@EileenCiccia

Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Diabetic Kidney Disease: Clinical – 1
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: Urinary cubilin shedding predicts progressive diabetic nephropathy in type-1 diabetes mellitus

-Authors: Eileen Anna Ciccia, Tina Costacou, Elif Erkan

– ePoster #PO0982

Daniel Coyne, MD

Professor of Medicine; @DrDanMO

1. Oral Abstract Presentation (Live-Streamed)

– Session Title: Breakthroughs in Anemia and Iron Management
Thursday October 22; 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, EDT

– Presentation Title: Roxadustat Is Not Associated with an Increased Risk of Neoplasm in Patients with CKD and Anemia

2. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Anemia and Iron Management
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: Health-Related Quality of Life in Roxadustat-Treated Patients with Anemia and Non-Dialysis-Dependent CKD

– Authors: Daniel W. Coyne, Roberto Manllo-Karim, Pablo Pergola, Carol A Pollock, Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Tyson T Lee, Elise Hardy, Kin-Hung Peony Yu

– ePoster #PO0258

3. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Anemia and Iron Management
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: Subgroup Analyses of Efficacy of Roxadustat for Treatment of Anemia in Patients with Non-Dialysis-Dependent CKD

– Authors: Daniel W Coyne, Mohamed A El-Shahawy, Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Hakan M Gurcan, Cameron S Liu, Elise Hardy, John Houghton, Kin-Hung Peony Yu

– ePoster #PO0260

4. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Anemia and Iron Management
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: Risk of Transfusion in Patients with Non-Dialysis-Dependent CKD Increases with Hemoglobin Levels <10 g/dL vs. ≥10 g/dL: Pooled Results from Roxadustat Phase 3 Studies

– Authors: Daniel W Coyne, Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Anjay Rastogi, Lynda Szczech, Tyson T Lee, Maksym Pola, Kin-Hung Peony Yu

– ePoster #PO0261

5. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Anemia and Iron Management
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: Roxadustat Favorably Modifies Iron Indices in Patients with Non-Dialysis-Dependent CKD-Related Anemia

– Authors: Daniel W Coyne, Simon D Roger, Willis Chou, Anatole Besarab, Robert Leong, Tyson T Lee, Lynda Szczech, Dustin J Little, Kin-Hung Peony Yu

– ePoster # PO0262

6. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Biochemical Aspects of Mineral and Bone Disease
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: Real-World Effectiveness of Sucroferric Oxyhydroxide (SO) in Lowering Serum Phosphorus (sP) Among a Contemporary Hemodialysis (HD) Cohort: A 6-Month Follow-Up

– Authors: Daniel W Coyne, Meijiao Zhou, Vidhya Parameswaran, Linda Ficociello, Claudy Mullon, Michael S Anger, Stuart M Spraque

– ePoster #PO0381

7. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: CVD, BP, and Kidney Diseases: Exploring the Link
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: Efficacy and Safety of Roxadustat in Patients with Dialysis-Dependent CKD, Anemia, and Heart Failure

– Authors: Daniel W Coyne, Steven Fishbane, Pablo Pergola, Lynda Szczech, Tyson T Lee, Dustin J Little, Kin-Hung Peony Yu

– ePoster #PO2112

2020 Fellow Jason Cummings

Jason Cummings, MD

Renal Fellow (2020-2022); @JCummingsMD

Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: COVID-19: Clinical Characteristics and Case
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

– Poster Title: COVID-19 AKI to ESRD: A New Cohort of Dialysis-Dependent Patients

– Authors: Eric J Chacko, Jason Cummings, Marc Richards

– ePoster #PO0793

Raja Dandamudi, MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Nephrology

@raja_dandamudi

1. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Clinical and Immunologic Predictors of Post-Transplant Outcomes
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

-Poster Title: Transition of renal transplant Care from Pediatrics to Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Retrospective Study comparing serum creatinine based GFR estimating equations

– Authors: Raja Dandamudi, Stanley P. Hmiel, Vikas R. Dharnidharka 

-ePoster #PO2426

2. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Pediatric Nephrology: Glomerular Disease and Transplantation
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

-Poster Title: The creeping creatinine in a growing child with a kidney transplant(KT): Using absolute GFR values to separate age effects from progressive graft dysfunction

– Authors: Raja Dandamudi, Stanley P. Hmiel, Vikas R. Dharnidharka

-ePoster #PO2351

3. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Pediatric Nephrology: Glomerular Disease and Transplantation
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

-Poster Title: Reduced 1 Year Allograft Function in Pediatric Renal Transplant Patients: Role of Subclinical Viral Replications

– Authors: Raja Dandamudi, Stanley P. Hmiel, Vikas R. Dharnidharka

-ePoster #PO2350

4. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Pediatric Nephrology: Benign Urology, AKI, Neonatal Nephrology, and Case Reports
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

-Poster Title: Dent’s Disease Phenotype Caused by IPEX Syndrome: Due to Anti-Tubular Basement Membrane Antibody Disease

– Authors: Raja Dandamudi, Keith A. Hruska

-ePoster #PO2311

Vikas R. Dharnidharka, MD, MPH

Director, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Hypertension and Pheresis
Professor of Pediatrics, Nephrology

@Vikas_R_D

1. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Pediatric Nephrology: Glomerular Disease and Transplantation
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: Clinical Course and Management of Henoch Schonlein Purpura (HSP) Nephritis in Children

– Authors: Hillarey K. Stone, Edward Nehus, Kimberley Dickinson, Evanette K. Burrows, Hanieh Razzaghi, Ingrid Y. Luna, Caroline A. Gluck, Bradley P. Dixon, Vikas R. Dharnidharka, William E. Smoyer, Michael J. Somers, Joseph T. Flynn, Alicia Neu, Susan L. Furth, Charles Bailey, Christopher B. Forrest, Michelle Denburg, Mark Mitsnefes 

– ePoster #PO2341

2. Lecture (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Onco-Transplant Nephrology
Sunday, October 25; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, EDT

– Lecture Title: Post-Transplant Leukemia and Lymphoma (11 am – 11:30 am, EDT)

Steven Funk, PhD

Steven Funk, PhD

Instructor of Medicine

– Session Title: Genetic Diseases of the Kidneys: Non-Cystic – 1
Thursday, October 22, 10:00 am – 12 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: Reduced Glomerular and Nephron Injury due to Albumin Knockout in the Heavily Nephrotic, Polymerization-Defective GBM Laminin B2-Del44 Mutant Mice

-Authors: Steven Daniel Funk, Jeffrey H Miner

– ePoster #PO1590

Samir Husami, MBBS

Visiting Researcher, Miner Laboratory

Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title:  What’s Hot, What’s New in Transplantation: Basic and Translational
Thursday, October 22, 10:00 am – 12 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: Glomerular Changes in Transplant Glomerulopathy

-Authors: Samir Husami, Dina Hammad, Jeffrey H Miner, Tarek Alhamad, Hani Suleiman

– ePoster #PO2384

Gonzalo Matzumura, MD

Renal Fellow (2019-2021); @GMatzumura

Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title:  Peritoneal Dialysis – 1
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

– Poster Title: Outcomes of Urgent Start Peritoneal Dialysis in a Retrospective Cohort

– Authors: Gonzalo Matzumura, Frank J O’Brien

– ePoster #PO1268

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Yoshiharu Muto, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Humphreys Lab

@YoshiharuMuto

1. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Development, Stem Cells, and Regenerative Medicine
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

– Poster Title: Single-Cell Transcriptional and Chromatin Accessibility Profiling Redefines Cellular Heterogeneity in the Adult Human Proximal Tubules

– Authors: Yoshiharu Muto, Parker C Wilson, Sushrut s Waikar, Benjamin D Humhreys

– ePoster #PO0887

2. Oral Abstract Presentation (Simulive)

– Session Title: Kidneyomics: From Cysts to Populations
Saturday, October 24; 5:00 am – 7:00 pm, EDT

– Poster Title: Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis to Define Cellular Heterogeneity in Human ADPKD (Abstract SA-OR21)

– Authors: Yoshiharu Muto, Eryn E Dixon, Chidambaram Ramachandran, Andrew j King, Stephen L Seliger, Owen M Woodward, Paul A Welling, Terry J Watnich, Benjamin D Humphreys

Irene Nunuk, MD

Renal Fellow (2018-2020); @irene_nunuk

Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Peritoneal Dialysis – 2
Thursday, October 22, 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

– Poster Title: Impact of Obesity on Success of Peritoneal Dialysis in ESRD Patients

– Authors: Irene Nunuk, Katie Keene, Natalie Carlson, Hongjie Gu, Frank O’Brien

– ePoster #PO1316.

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Gaurav Rajashekar, MD

Renal Fellow (2020-2022); @Renoplant

Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Peritoneal Dialysis – 1
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

– Poster Title: Image-Guided Percutaneous Peritoneal Dialysis Catheters: Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts

– Authors: Gaurav Rajashekar, Anubha Mutneja, Shilpa Arora, Frank J O’Brien, Daniel Coyne, Daniel Picus

– ePoster #PO1276

Bharat Neelam Raju, MD

Renal Fellow (2020-2022); @bharatnrajuMD

Poster (On-Demand)

– Session TItle: AKI Clinical, Outcomes, and Trials – 2
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

– Poster Title: Rivaroxaban- Induced Anticoagulant Related Nephropathy

– Authors: Bharat Neelam Raju, Birmaji Ali, Vahid Namdarizandi, Cesar Elias Abdul-Massih, Amit K Rajput

– ePoster #PO0118

Madhuri Ramakrishnan, MD

Renal Fellow (2018-2020); @madmagicdoc

Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Peritoneal Dialysis – 2
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

– Poster Title: The utility of point-of-care reagent strips for rapid rule out of peritonitis in patients on peritoneal dialysis

– Authors: Madhuri Ramakrishnan, Andy Chuu, Frank O’Brien

– ePoster #PO1319

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Sana J Shaikh, MD

Renal Fellow (2019-2021); @always_oncall

1. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Disorders: Clinical – 1
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

– Poster Title: Hypokalemia From ACTH-Secreting Pheochromocytoma

– Authors: Sana J Shaikh, Anitha Vijayan, Anubha Mutneja

– ePoster #PO1469

2. Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Disorders: Clinical – 2
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

– Poster Title: CYP24A1-Hypercalcemia in Pregnancy

– Authors: Sana J Shaikh, Anitha Vijayan

– ePoster # PO1472

Hani Suleiman, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine; @hansul

Poster (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Podocyte Biology
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

– Poster Title: Tropomyosin Isoforms Play a Role in Healthy and Injured Kidney Podocytes

– Authors: Dina Hammad, Jeffrey H Miner, Hani Suleiman

– ePoster #PO1992

Haojia Wu, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine; @HaojiaWu

Poster (On-Demand)(PO0896)

– Session Title: Diabetic Kidney Disease: Basic Mechanisms 
Thursday, October 22; 10:00 am – 12 am, EDT

– Poster Title: Mapping the Response of Murine Diabetic Nephropathy to Therapy at Single-Cell Resolution

– Authors: Haojia Wu, Romer Andres Gonzalez-Villalobos, Xiang Yao, Dermot F Reilly, Matthew M Rankin, Maria Chiara Magnone, Eugene Myshkin, Matthew Douglas Breyer, Benjamin D Humphreys

– ePoster #PO0896

Andrew Malone, MBChB, MD, FASN

Assistant Professor of Medicine; @AndrewFMalone

1. Oral Abstract Presentation (Simulive)

– Session Title: In-Depth Look at Transplantation: Basic and Translational
Friday, October 23; 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm (EDT)

– Presentation Title: Harnessing Expressed Single-Nucleotide Variation and Single-Cell RNA Sequencing to Define Immune Cell Chimerism in the Rejecting Kidney Transplant (Abstract FR-OR41)

2. Oral Abstract Presentation (Simulive)

– Session Title: In-Depth Look at Transplantation: Basic and Translational
Friday, October 23; 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm (EDT)

– Presentation Title: Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Analysis of Kidney Transplant Biopsies Demonstrates a Proinflammatory Role for Renal Tubular Cells in Rejection (Abstract FR-OR45)

Kohei Omachi, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Miner Laboratory

Oral Abstract Presentation (Simulive)

– Session Title: Glomerular Diseases: Charting New Territory
Friday, October 23; 5:00 pm – 7:00 PM (EDT)

– Lecture Title: Development of a personalized medicine platform for nonsense readthrough therapy in Alport syndrome (Abstract FR-OR32)

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Ying Maggie Chen, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Lecture (On-Demand)

– Session Title: Organelle Function and Dysfunction in Kidney Diseases
Saturday, October 24; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, EDT

– Lecture Title: Developing Novel Endoplasmic Reticulum-Targeted Treatment for Kidney Diseases (10:00 am to 10:30 am, EDT)

Rowena B. Delos Santos, MD, FASN

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Nephrology Transplant Fellowship

Lecture (On-Demand)

– Session Title: A Growing Problem: Obesity and Transplantation
Saturday, October 24; 10:30 am to 12:30 pm, EDT

– Lecture Title: How Much Is Too Much?  The Obese Recipient (11:00 AM to 11:30 AM, EDT)