Month: June 2018

Abstract 1: WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING (WGS) AS A NEW VALIDATED DIAGNOSTIC TEST FOR ADPKD ADPKD is the most common monogenic renal disease. There are many benefits of genetic diagnosis, including early diagnosis, family planning, cascade testing, living-donor selection and predict...
  • 27 June 2018
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Darren Roberts completed physician training in Canberra and Sydney in both nephrology and clinical pharmacology. Other training includes a PhD in clinical pharmacology and toxicology (Australian National University, NHMRC Medical PhD scholarship), a 12 month clinical toxicology fellowship (NSW Poisons...
  • 25 June 2018
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Paul Mitchell is the Director of the Centre For Vision Research at The Westmead Institute for Medical Research. He has a full-time academic appointment as Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Sydney (Westmead Hospital). He works clinically as a...
  • 25 June 2018
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Karen Dwyer is Professor of Medicine and Deputy Head, School of Medicine at Deakin University. Karen trained as a nephrologist and transplant physician at St.Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. Karen has been a recent council member for the TSANZ and is now...
  • 22 June 2018
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Talia Gutman is a Research Officer and PhD candidate at the Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Australia. Her primary research interest is in the area of patient and caregiver involvement in research in chronic kidney disease....
  • 21 June 2018
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Mary Glendenning Chair of Medicine, Professor in Medicine Head of Department, Department of Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago. Consultant Nephrologist and Head of Nephrology, Southern District Health Board. Prof Walker is the senior academic nephrologist in New...
  • 21 June 2018
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David Nikolic-Paterson is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and is Head of Laboratory Research in the Department of Nephrology at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, and a Group Leader in the Monash University Centre for Inflammatory Diseases. His group investigates...
  • 21 June 2018
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Professor El-Omar graduated in Medicine from Glasgow University, Scotland, and trained as a gastroenterologist. He worked as a Visiting Scholar/Scientist at Vanderbilt University, TN, and National Cancer Institute, MD, USA, and was Professor of Gastroenterology at Aberdeen University, Scotland, for...
  • 20 June 2018
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Prof Forbes completed her PhD in Paediatric Nephrology in 2000 at the University of Melbourne and Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. She then continued her training as a post-doctoral fellow in diabetes and kidney disease at both Austin Health...
  • 20 June 2018
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Natasha Rogers is an Associate Professor and the Rolf Edgar Lake Fellow at the University of Sydney. She completed her Nephrology training at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and PhD in Transplant Immunology at the University of Adelaide. In 2011 she...
  • 19 June 2018
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