Poster Winners:

Quality Initiative

 

1st Place

Interior Health Renal Transplant Dermatology Clinics

• Lead: Kim McDuff 

2nd Place

Decreasing incidences of peritonitis through home visits and retraining 

• Lead: Rebecca Law 
• Team: Vlad Padure    

Clinical Research

 

1st Place
Population Analysis of HLA Eplet and Allele Frequencies to Assess the Feasibility of Eplet-Matching in Canada

• Lead: Jenny Tran 
• Team: Karen Sherwood, Franz Fenninger, Oliver P Gunther, Sabina Dobrer, Lenka Allan, Rene J Duquesnoy, Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze, Frans H Claas, Genome Canada Transplant Consortium., Paul A Keown    
  

2nd Place

Patient Perspectives on Financial Barriers to Home Dialysis Training in BC and Yukon: A Qualitative Survey            

• Lead: Amanda Cunningham 
• Team: Andrea Giustino, David Prchal, Monica Beaulieu    
  

Complete listing of posters:

1. Effects of a Renal Nordic walking program on Quality of Life and Fitness in renal patients at St. Paul’s 
• Lead: Leonora Chao
• Team: Susie Neufeld, Vicky Ngo, Dani Renouf, Sandra Squire, Alison Hoens, Sameer Desai
2. Population Analysis of HLA Eplet and Allele Frequencies to Assess the Feasibility of Eplet-Matching in Canada
• Lead: Jenny Tran
• Team: Karen Sherwood, Franz Fenninger, Oliver P Gunther, Sabina Dobrer, Lenka Allan, Rene J Duquesnoy, Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze, Frans H Claas, Genome Canada Transplant Consortium., Paul A Keown 
3. QUALITY ANALYSIS OF NGS IN GENERATING HLA GENOTYPES IN A CLINICAL LAB
   
• Lead: Jenny Tran
• Team: Karen Sherwood, Brendan McKenzie, Edlyn Gomez, Tony Yeung, Jennifer Beckrud, Lenka Allan, Genome Canada Transplant Consortium, Paul A Keown
4. Evaluation of provincial initiatives in palliative care: a baseline assessment of pre-implementation clinician practices
   
• Lead: Juliya Hemmett
• Team: Alice Wang, Sarah Thomas, Sushila Saunders, Adeera Levin, Gaylene Hargrove
5. Evaluation of provincial initiatives in palliative care: a baseline assessment of pre-implementation patient perspectives
• Lead: Juliya Hemmett
• Team: Alice Wang, Sarah Thomas, Sushila Saunders, Adeera Levin, Gaylene Hargrove
6. Using a Logic Model to systematically evaluate an initiative to improve patient transition to home dialysis therapies (HDTs) 
   
• Lead: Juliya Hemmett
• Team: Alice Wang, Linda Turnbull, Janet Williams, Sushila Saunders, Sarah Thomas, Adeera Levin, Michael Copland, Suneet Singh.
7. Decreasing incidences of peritonitis through home visits and retraining
   
• Lead: Rebecca Law
• Team: Vlad Padure
8. Patient perspectives on delivery of drug therapy information and renal pharmacist quality-indicator drug therapy problems
   
• Lead: Natalie Lesko
• Team: Mary T Lam, William Nevers, Sean Gorman, Kate Boutin, Alice Ratcheva
  
9. To Pee or not to pee? what GFR are we?
   
• Lead: Lesley Thellend
• Team:Dr. Joslyn Conley and Jennifer Stieda 
  
10. Interior Health Renal Transplant Dermatology Clinics
    
• Lead:Kim McDuff
11. Kidney Check: Identifying kidney disease and diabetes in BC First Nations communities
    
• Lead: Catherine Turner
• Team: Craig Settee, on behalf of the Can-SOLVE CKD Network
  
12. Respectful engagement of Indigenous peoples in a pan-Canadian kidney research network 
    
• Lead: Craig Settee
• Team: Catherine Turner, on behalf of the Can-SOLVE CKD Network
  
13. An Evaluation of the Empiric Antibiotic Regimen for the Treatment of Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis at Vancouver General Hospital 
    
• Lead: Amanda  Driver
• Team: Elaine Cheng and Suneet Singh
14. Transiton Care Unit
    
• Lead: Kunjal Desai
• Team: Agnes Low, Hassan Akhoond, Shalini Desai, Kunjal Desai
15. Development of a Provincial Framework to Advance Patient Engagement in Kidney Care and Research
    
• Lead: Winphia Koo
• Team: Helen Chiu, Dennis McCann, Winphia Koo, Anita Rand, Jared Provost, Sue Bal, Jana Sadler, Neelam Mann, Brenda Lee, Gloria Freeborn, Sushila Saunders for the BC Renal Patient & Family Engagement Framework Working Group
16. Integrating the lived experience of kidney donors and recipients in Transplant Education
    
• Lead: Katherine Schmidt
• Team: Vlad Padure, Rebecca Law, Sandra Nobert, Tina Bentivoglio, Alison Rowe
17. Patient Perspectives on Financial Barriers to Home Dialysis Training in BC and Yukon: A Qualitative Survey
    
• Lead: Amanda  Cunningham
• Team: Andrea Giustino, David Prchal, Monica Beaulieu
18. Utilizing Patient Support Workers (PSWs) to provide hemodialysis at home
• Lead: Vlad Padure
• Team: Rebecca Law, Dr. Andreas Pierratos