Download the full program (PDF) — agenda, speaker biographies, and organizing committee.
APOL1 Risk Variants and Kidney Disease
When to Suspect a Genetic Cause: A Practical Approach to Genetic Kidney Disease in Children
From Dialysis to Transplant: Navigating Ethical Decisions in Pediatric Nephrology
Functional Body Composition in Pediatric CKD
AKI to CKD Progression in Preterm Infants and the Role of CKRT
Supporting Renal Patients & Families as a Multi-Disciplinary Team
From Food Is Medicine to Food Skills: Bringing Culinary Medicine Into Clinical Care
Executive Function Difficulty in Pre-Adolescence and Adolescence
Transition to Adult Care
Obesity-Associated Kidney Disease
Stress and Barriers to Communication with Providers Among Caregivers of Pediatric CKD Patients
Pediatric Renal Nutrition Taskforce Update
Beyond the Pill Bottle: Immunosuppression Through the Eyes of a Pediatric Kidney Transplant Team
Social and Government Determinants of Health in Pediatric Kidney Disease
Unique Approaches to Hypertension
A Dad’s Diagnosis, A Daughter’s Determination: How One Kidney Transplant Changed One Family
No sessions in this track on this day.
Organizing committee
The multidisciplinary team planning this year’s symposium.
ChairTamara Hill, DNP, CPNP-AC
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, MD

Matt Butler, LMSW
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Janette Cassano, LCSW
Cook Children’s Health Care System
Prosper, TX

Ewa Elenberg, MD, MEd
Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Marisa Juarez-Calderon, MPH, RD, LD
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, TX

Kaitlin Massanelli, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC/PC
Children’s Health, UT Southwestern
Dallas, TX

Merideth Miller, RD, CSP, LD
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Cleveland, OH

Michele Mills, MSN, CPNP-PC, CNN-NP
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Celeste Salvador-Gonzalez, LMSW
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Kristen Sgambat, RD, PhD
Children’s National Hospital
Washington, DC

Taneisha Stanton, RN
University of Maryland
College Park, MD

Melissa Trabold, PNP, FNP
Children’s Health Care of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA

Amanda Travis, DNP, FNP-C, CPNP-AC
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, UTHSC
Memphis, TN

Brynna Van Wyk, MSN, ARNP, CPNP
University of Iowa Medical Center
Iowa City, IA
