5th Pediatric Renal Nutrition Academy
Monday, May 06, 2019 - Tuesday, May 07, 2019
08:15 AM - 04:45 PM
Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116, USA
Pediatric Renal Nutrition Academy (PRNA) is a clinical skill development focused program for pediatric renal dietitians or other clinicians.
The two-day course is split into Introductory level (Day 1) and Intermediate-advanced level (Day 2). Participants have a choice of registering for each day separately or for both.
May 6: Introductory Level:
8:15-8:30 Welcome and announcements
8:30-9:15 - Introduction to resources and being part of the pediatric renal team
Leah Oladitan PG Dip, RD, CSP, LD, Children’s Mercy Hospital
9:15-10:15 - Growth and weight management
Christina F. Halligan, RD, CSR, Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU
10:15-10:30 - break
10:30-11:30 - Basic physiology and lab values
Molly Vega-Wong MS, RDN, LD, Texas Children's Hospital
11:30-12:15 – Nutrition in acute care
Elisha Rampolla Pavlick, RD, CSP, LDN, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
12:15-1:30 - Lunch with the experts
1:30-2:30 - Nutritional adequacy and oral intake
Christina Nelms, MS, RD, LMNT, Pediatric renal educator and consultant
2:30-3:30 – Formula and infant/toddler feeding
Christina Nelms
3:30 - 3:45 - break
3:45-4:15 Enhancing adherence to diet in pediatric CKD
Susan Waisbren, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital
4:15-4:45 Putting it into practice – role playing
Susan Waisbren
4:45-5:30 - Transplant 1.0 and other common kidney diagnoses
Nonnie Polderman RD, BC Children's Hospital and Christina Nelms
Wine and Cheese Networking Reception
Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116
Tuesday, May 6th, 2019, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
May 7: Intermediate-advanced Level:
8:45-9:00 Welcome and announcements
9-9:45 - Intro to research and application to practice
Leah Oladitan PG Dip, RD, CSP, LD, Children’s Mercy Hospital
9:45-10:10 – Applied anthropometry
Christina Nelms
10:10-10:30 - Transplant 2.0 and other less common kidney diagnoses
Nonnie Polderman and Christina Nelms
10:30-10:45 - break
10:45-11:15 - Advanced topics in clinical management
Christine Benedetti, MS, RDN, CSR, LD, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
11:15-12:00 - Advances in nutritional intervention in inpatient and acute care
Molly Vega-Wong MS, RDN, LD, Texas Children's Hospital
12:00 - 1:15 - lunch with the experts
1:15-2:00 – Diagnosis, documentation and nutritional interventions in malnutrition
Jenni Carvalho-Salemi, MPH, RDN, LD, CNSC, Texas Children’s Hospital
2:00-3:00 - Optimizing the pediatric renal formula prescription
Nonnie Polderman
3-3:15 - break
3:15-4 - Advanced case study presentations – working through complex clinical scenarios
Isabel Reckson, RD, CDN, CDE, Weill Cornell Medicine
Morgan L. Gay MS, RD, CNSC, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
Dana Liebstein, MS, RD, CDN, CNSC, New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
4-4:45 - Panel discussion – “tricks of the trade”
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Vitaflo USA is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 13 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of the 2-day program, 7 CPEUs for completion of Day 1, and 6 CPEUs for completion of Day 2.
Upon completion of the program and an electronic assessment component, participants will receive a certificate attesting to the attainment of a new knowledge/skill set:
- Certificate of Introductory Level Competency in Pediatric Renal Nutrition
and / or
- Certificate of Intermediate-Advanced Level Competency in Pediatric Renal Nutrition
All individuals completing the program will receive CPEUs for training time regardless of whether they pass the post-course assessment and receive the certificate.
PRNA is not affiliated with NKF.
*The wine and cheese reception is only available for registrants for the education sessions (either Day 1, Day 2, or full program) and is not open to the public.
© 2019 Vitaflo, USA, a Nestlé Health Science company. By your participation in this event, you are declaring that your participation presents no conflict of interest with your facility’s policies and procedures.
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