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CSN / CANA (Canadian Association of Nephrology Administrators) Timing of Dialysis symposium Braden Manns, PI, CANN-NET Funded by The Kidney Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in partnership with the Canadian Society of Nephrology

CANN-NET Scope 1) Defining best practice for patients with kidney disease 2) Ensuring best practice through appropriate and efficient knowledge delivery 3) Improving future best practice through generation of urgently needed new information on how to optimally manage patients with kidney disease

CANN-NET Partners and Knowledge Users

Organizational Structure

Priorities for Knowledge Translation Priority areas  Timing of dialysis initiation  Increasing appropriate use of home dialysis  Management of pediatric nephrotic syndrome Why?  Wide variation in practice  New knowledge  Impact for patients, and health care system

Clinical trials scientific committee Priority areas  Optimal management of cardiovascular risk in dialysis ◦ Impact of eplerenone in hemodialysis patients ◦ Impact of different phosphate targets in hemodialysis Protocol review:  9 protocols reviewed to date  3 Fully endorsed, 5 letters of support  3 funded by national funding agencies Please send your RCT protocols for review (www.CANN-NET.ca )

Agenda Time Topic Speaker 10:30 Overview Braden Manns , Calgary 10:35 Review Current Practice Regarding Manish Sood , Winnipeg Timing of Dialysis Initiation Adeera Levin , Vancouver 10:55 Perspectives of Nephrology Rebecca Harvey , Toronto Administrators (Vice-President, ORN) 11:10 CSN / CANN-NET Guidelines on Gihad Nesrallah , Toronto Timing of Dialysis Initiation 11:25 Knowledge to action cycle applied Joanne Kappel , Saskatoon to Timing of Dialysis Initiation Manish Sood , Winnipeg 11:40 Questions All