The AKI Symposium is an annual multi-departmental event at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine to foster cross-campus research collaboration on acute kidney injury and further AKI
awareness, education, and advocacy. This symposium promotes the clinical knowledge related to diagnosis and personalized treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI) and helps to improve the care of critically ill patients who develop or are at risk for AKI.
13th Annual AKI Keynote Lectures
Keynote Address 1: Michael P. Hutchens, MD, MA “The kidney keeps the score: mechanisms of lasting harm from AKI”
Dr. Michael Hutchens is Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Oregon Health & Sciences University. He also serves as an intensivist in the Portland Veterans Administration Medical Center Surgical Intensive Care Unit. His long experience in cardiovascular and surgical critical care underpins an abiding research interest in acute kidney injury (AKI) caused by systemic illness, such as acute cardiorenal syndrome. Current projects in the Hutchens lab focus on myocyte-derived mediators of renal injury and adaptation to injury, as muscle injury precedes kidney injury in several forms of critical illness-induced AKI.
Keynote Address 2: Ravindra Mehta, MD “Value Based care for AKI: Are we ready?”
Dr. Ravi Mehta is Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology-Hypertension at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. He directs the UCSD Master of Advanced Studies in Clinical Research program and is the site PI of the NIH-funded UAB/UCSD O’Brien Center for AKI research. He chairs the annual International AKI and CRRT Conference in San Diego that is in its 25th year in 2020. He is a founding member of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) and the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN). His research has informed the development of the KDIGO guidelines for AKI.
Abstract Contest Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the junior abstract presentation contest.
1st Place: Elynna B. Youm, BA “Increased Glucose Tolerance and Sex-Dependent Renal Disease in Megalin (Lrp2) Knockout Mice on Western Diet”
2nd Place: Wafaa Albalawy, MS “Direct Effects of SGLT2 Inhibitors on Proximal Tubule Function”
3rd Place: S. Arsalan Zaidi, MD, MS “Persistent AKI in the Critically Ill Patients: Occurrence, Risk Factors and Association with Outcome”
