5th International Symposium on Acute Kidney Injury in Children
September 26 - 28, 2025
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza
Join Us
The 5th International Symposium on Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in Children is hosted by Cincinnati Children's Heart Institute and Center for Acute Care Nephrology. Conference programming will provide an interactive educational platform for physicians, nurses and affiliated healthcare professionals who care for children with, or at-risk for, AKI. Physician specialties will represent nephrology, critical care medicine, cardiology and neonatology.
Key topics include:
Detailed and current reports from major international pediatric acute care nephrology registries
The integration of novel AKI biomarkers into risk-stratification algorithms both at single and longitudinal time points in new populations
The latest results from studies of novel extracorporeal devices aimed to improve outcomes for patients with multi-organ failure including AKI
Review of long-term outcome studies of children and young adults who survive an AKI episode
Considerations for novel and modern AKI trial designs and endpoints
Proposals for AKI management strategies to utilize our current knowledge to optimize AKI interventional studies and improve patient outcomes
Enjoy Your Stay at the Cincinnati Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel
A limited number of discounted guest rooms will be reserved at the Cincinnati Hilton Netherland Plaza for this conference. Hotel registration can be found using the below link.
Promotional & Exhibit Opportunities
If you are interested in promotional or exhibit opportunities, please contact:
Silia Creech
silia.creech@cchmc.org
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
CME: This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.
CNE: This activity is approved for continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hours. This activity is designed for the additional hours required for APRNs with prescriptive authority in Ohio.
Agenda
Friday, September 26
7:00-7:15pm | Stuart Goldstein, MD | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Welcome and Keynote
7:15-8:00pm | Kathleen Liu, MD, PhD | UCSF Health The Venn Diagram of Critical Care and Nephrology: How I Arrived at This Intersection
8:00-8:15pm | Q&A Session
Saturday, September 27
7:45-8:00am | Stuart Goldstein, MD | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Welcome & Overview
8:00-10:00am | AKI - The Current State of Practice
8:00-8:20am | Stuart Goldstein, MD | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center The AKI Definition - It Ain’t Broke, or Is It?
8:20-8:40am | Ayse Arikan, MD | Texas Children’s AKI, CRRT, and Thrombocytopenia - State of the Art Management Strategies
8:40-9:00am | Akash Deep, MD | King’s College Hospital AKI, CRRT, and Acute Liver Failure - State of the Art Management Strategies
9:00-9:20am | David Selewski, MD, MS | Medical University of South Carolina AKI, CRRT, and ECMO - State of the Art Management Strategies
9:20-9:40am | Sean Bagshaw, MD | Baxter Critical Care Institute AKI and CRRT - What is New in the Adult Critical Care Nephrology World?
9:40-10:00am | Panel Session
10:00-10:30am | Break
10:30-12:30pm | AKI and Chronic Kidney Disease
10:30-10:55am | David Cooper, MD | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Renal Functional Reserve- The Hidden CKD Biomarker
10:55-11:20am | Cal Robinson, MD | The Hospital for Sick Children - Toronto AKI to CKD - The Health Systems Evidence
11:20-11:45am | Dana Fuhrman, DO | UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh AKI to CKD - Registry Experience
11:45-12:10pm | Giovanni Ceschia, MD | University of Cincinnati Medical Center AKI Survivors - Do I Need to Follow Them Forever?
12:10-12:30pm | Panel Session
12:30-2:00pm | Lunch
2:00-2:20pm | Top Abstract #1 & Top Abstract #2
2:20-3:30pm | AKI in Neonates
2:20-2:40pm | David Askenazi, MD | Children’s of Alabama Report from the First INNS. What Did We Learn?
2:40-3:00pm | Jennifer Jetton, MD | Medical College of Wisconsin The Impact of AWAKENing us to Neonatal AKI - What Can be Translated?
3:00-3:20pm | Denise Hasson, MD | NYU Grossman School of Medicine CRRT Without Electricity for Infants Under 2.5kg - Really?
3:20-3:30pm | Panel Session
3:30-4:00pm | Break
4:00-5:10pm | AKI Risk Stratification
4:00-4:20pm | Stuart Goldstein, MD | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center The Renal Angina Index - 10 Years Later
4:20-4:40pm | Katja Gist, MD The Cardiac Renal Angina Index
4:40-5:00pm | Natalja Stanski, MD | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Sepsis Associated AKI
5:00-5:15pm | Panel Session
5:15-6:15pm | Report from Pediatric AKI Registries
5:15-5:30pm | Shina Menon, MD | Stanford Medicine Children’s Health WE-ROCK
5:30-5:45pm | Cara Slagle, MD | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center ICONIiC
5:45-6:00pm | Michelle Starr, MD | Riley Children’s Health Ultra-PEDS
6:00-6:15pm | Panel Session
Sunday, September 28
7:45-8:00am | Akash Deep, MD | Kings College Hospital Welcome and Overview
8:00-10:15am | Innovation in Pediatric AKI and CRRT Therapies
8:00-8:25am | Ayse Arikan, MD | Texas Children’s Challenges and Approaches to Improved AKI Study Design
8:25-8:50am | Sean Bagshaw, MD | Baxter Critical Care Institute Time to Remake MAKE and Give it a MAKE-Over
8:50-9:15am | Prasad Devarajan, MD, FAAP | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center AKI Therapeutic Trials - They are Really Happening!
9:15-9:40am | Vedran Premuzik Novel Extracorporeal Therapy for Acute Care Nephrology - ECOS
9:40-10:05am | Danielle Soranno, MD | Riley Children’s Health What’s Cool on the Bench That’s Close for Prime Time?
10:05-10:15am | Panel Session
10:15-10:45am | Break
10:45-1:00pm | AKI - Where We Need to Be
10:45-11:05am | Leslie Meigs AKI Education and Advocacy - What Do We Need to Do?
11:05-11:25am | Theresa Mottes, APRN-NP, CPNP-AC, CDN | Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Meaningful AKI/CRRT and Improvement - More Than a Dashboard
11:25-11:45am | Andrea Conroy, PhD | Indiana University School of Medicine AKI in Resourced Challenged Areas - Embrace Optimism / Avoid Nihilism
11:45-12:05pm | Matthew Barhight, MD | Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Fluid Management Optimization in the ICU - PROGRESS
12:05-12:25pm | H Rhodes Hambrick, MD | Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Precision Drug Dosing in AKI/ CRRT
12:25-12:45pm | Stuart Goldstein, MD | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Putting it All Together
12:45-12:55pm | Panel Session
12:55-1:00pm | Akash Deep, MD | Stuart Goldstein, MD | Kings College Hospital | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Closing Remarks
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Contact Us
CRRT University™
Jolyn Morgan
jolyn.morgan@cchmc.org
Conference Inquiries
CME@cchmc.org
Sponsorships and Exhibits
Silia Creech
silia.creech@cchmc.org
CRRT University™
(Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy)
CRRT University™ is designed for health care providers caring for infants, children and/or adults receiving Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT). This one and one-half day course combines interactive didactic small course instruction (6 hours) with a full day simulation course.
Medical professionals (RN and MD) are provided with an integrated platform to acquire new skills and abilities that will:
Improve aptitude in caring for CRRT patients
Increase working knowledge of the CRRT machine and ability to troubleshoot alarms
Enhance abilities to navigate and adapt to complex situations involving CRRT
Develop strategies for addressing challenging communication issues and program structure.
For additional information on CRRT University™, please contact:
Jolyn Morgan, DPN, APRN-CNP, CDN
Clinical Manager
jolyn.morgan@cchmc.org
What CRRT University™ participants are saying
about their experience
“I thought the training provided a 'realistic' view.”
“The ONE most important thing learned was troubleshooting CRRT alarms, evidence to initiate procedure earlier in renal failure patients, pre-dilution vs post-dilution fluids, and alarm management.”
“I learned many tips about trouble shooting the machine.”
“I now know how to better address alarms. Sometimes you simply don’t have a CRRT orientation experience that allows you to do much "troubleshooting" so the course allowed me to practice a lot of that, for example, the dialysate weight alarm troubleshooting.”
“The ONE most important thing learned was developing a yearly competency surrounding CRRT for all PICU nurses.”
