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Tuesday, 29 September 2026

Pre-congress CME - Capetonian Hotel, Raya 2 & 3

08:00 Workshop Registration Meeting Room Foyer
BASICS OF PD WORKSHOP
Supported by Adcock Ingram Critical Care
Chairperson: Brett Cullis
08:30 Welcome
09:00 Peritoneal dialysis - Who, why and when
Brett Cullis, South Africa
09:20 Anatomy and physiology of the peritoneal membrane
Bianca Davidson, South Africa
09:40 PD prescribing including APD
Nicola Wearne, South Africa
10:00 PD access, keys to success
Lungiswa Mtingi-Nkonzombi, South Africa
10:20 Discussion
10:30 Tea / Coffee Break Meeting Room Foyer
Chairperson: Nicola Wearne
11:00 Predialysis education and patient identification
Petronella Ranjit, South Africa
11:20 How to train a patient on PD
Leigh Morton, South Africa
11:40 Infectious complications
Wesley van Hougenhouk-Tulleken, South Africa
12:00 PD in Children
Ashton Coetzee, South Africa
12:20 Discussion
12:30 Lunch Break Meeting Room Foyer
13:30 Non-infectious complications
Alda Vermeulen, South Africa
13:50 Case studies - Peritonitis
Faculty
15:00 Tea / Coffee Break Meeting Room Foyer
15:30 Case Studies - Prescribing and fluid management
Faculty
16:30 Closing Remarks




Wednesday, 30 September 2026

Pre-congress CME, Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC 1)

8:00 Workshop Registration At Each Workshop Venue
PRACTICALITIES OF PD FUNDAMENTALS OF PD CME WORKSHOP
Supported by Fresenius Medical Care
HANDS-ON PD ACCESS WORKSHOP
Supported by Vantive
Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room: 1.63 & 1.64 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Ana Figueiredo & Josephine Chow Co-Chairpersons: Edwina Brown & Anjali Saxena Co-Chairpersons: Robert Freercks, Eddie Tan & Richard Corbett
8:50 Welcome and introduction
Ana Figueiredo, Brazil
8:50 Welcome and introduction
Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
8:50 Welcome and introduction
Robert Freercks, South Africa
9:00 Planning to start a program and quality care initiatives
Ahad Qayyum, Pakistan
9:00 PD post-surgery
Anjali Saxena, USA
9:00 PD access history and current best practices
Eddie Tan, New Zealand
9:20 How to improve nurse autonomy and get doctor buy-in for best care for patients
Leigh Morton, South Africa
9:25 Preserving the peritoneal membrane
Rumeyza Kazancioglu, Turkey
9:24 Managing access related complications
Richard Corbett, United Kingdom
9:40 Practicalities of training a patient
Josephine Chow, Australia
9:50 Managing itching, pain and other symptoms
Nicola Wearne, South Africa
9:48 Paediatric PD insertion techniques
Peter Nourse, South Africa
10:00 Supporting the new patient
Sally PunzalPre-congress CME, Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC 1)an, United Kingdom
10:15 Electrolyte management - Sodium, Potassium and phosphate
Talerngsak Kajanabuch, Thailand
10:12 Preoperative assessment, preparation and sedation for PD catheter insertion
Brett Cullis, South Africa
10:20 Tailoring PD to your patient and adapting prescriptions
Barbara Crisp, South Africa
10:40 Managing increasing frailty
Yasuhiko Ito, Japan
10:36 The percutaneous PD catheter insertion technique
Robert Freercks, South Africa
10:40 Discussion
11:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
11:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
11:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
11:30 Managing the tricky medical patient - heart failure, diabetes, BMD
Rasha Darwish, Egypt
PD DELIVERY: HOW AND FOR WHOM? 11:30 Post operative management of the PD catheter
Nicola Wearne, South Africa
Meeting Room: 1.63 & 1.64
11:50 Access skin marking and post catheter insertion care
Elaine Bowes, United Kingdom
11:30 Personalised prescribing
Anjali Saxena, USA
12:00 Demonstration of Catheter insertion in adults
Eddie Tan, New Zealand
12:10 Infectious and non-infectious complications
Abdullah Bohasan, Saudi Arabia
11:48 Knowing the peritoneal membrane helps prescribing
Richard Corbett, United Kingdom
12:30 Demonstration of catheter insertion in paediatrics
Mignon McCulloch, South Africa
12:30 Residual kidney function, clearance and PET - indications, collection and interpretation
Ana Figueiredo, Brazil
12:06 PD in the Anuric patient
Lily Mushahar, Malaysia
 
12:50 Discussion 12:24 Managing fluid overload
Maria Slon, Spain
 
12:42 Assisted PD
Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
 
13:00 Lunch Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
13:00 Lunch Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
13:00 Lunch Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
HANDS ON TRAINING WITH FACULTY TROUBLESHOOTING: LEARNING FROM CASE STUDIES HANDS ON TRAINING WITH FACULTY
Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room: 1.63 & 1.64 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Edwina Brown & Jenny Shen
14:00 - 16:00 Hand hygiene technique 14:00 Recurrent exit site infections
Bianca Davidson, South Africa
14:00 - 16:00 PD catheter insertion
Faculty: Richard Corbett, Robert Freercks, Mignon McCulloch, Peter Nourse, Nicola Wearne, Elaine Bowes, Annabel Boyer, Thierry Lobbedez, Eddie Tan, Guillermo Hidalgo, Ashton Coetzee, Christel du Buisson, Deveshni Reddy, Agathe Nkoy, Younoussa Keita, Abdou Niang, Karlien Francois, Brett Cullis
PD catheter exit site care and dressing 14:30 Supporting patients in low resource environments
Jenny Shen, USA
Line changes and line contamination 15:00 Hernia repairs and leaks
Lungiswa Mtingi-Nkonzombi, South Africa
Collecting sample and adding IP antibiotics 15:30 Acute kidney injury
Sampson Antwi, Ghana
16:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
16:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
16:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
15:00 ISPD Congress Registration Registration Foyer
17:00 Opening Ceremony Auditorium 1
17:00 Introduction Shoyab Wadee, South Africa
17:02 Welcome from Local Organising Chairperson Brett Cullis, South Africa
17:07 Welcome from South African Nephrology Society President Nicola Wearne, South Africa
17:11 National Anthem All Delegates
17:13 Welcome and Address from Deputy Director, Department of Health Mrs J Hunter, South Africa
17:20 Address from Scientific Programme Chairperson Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
17:25 ISPD President's Report Rajnish Mehrotra, USA
17:50 Oreopoulos Award Brett Cullis, South Africa
17:53 John Maher Award Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
17:55 John Maher Lecture Ahad Qayyum, Pakistan
18:30 Networking Function Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)




Thursday, 1 October 2026

ISPD Congress - Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC 1)

7:00 Registration in Registration Foyer Registration Foyer
7:00 - 8:00 BREAKFAST MEETING - FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE - Can less be more? The case for incremental PD across diverse settings Moderator: Yeoungjee Cho Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
  Incremental PD - Introductory overview Yeoungjee Cho, Australia
  Incremental CAPD - French patient case Clémence Béchade, France
  Incremental PD - South African perspective Nicola Wearne, South Africa
  Interactive Q & A with the audience  
7:00 - 8:00 ASK THE EXPERTS - CASES Venue: Auditorium 1 Alcove
7:00 - 8:00 Case discussions on common clinical cases Martin Wilkie, United Kingdom, Laura Gillis, United Kingdom and Brett Cullis, South Africa
PLENARY SESSION
Venue: Auditorium 1
Co-Chairpersons: Rajnish Mehrotra and Martin Wilkie
8:00 - 8:05 Presentation of the Bergstrom Award
8:05 - 8:50 What will PD look like in 2036?
Simon Davies, United Kingdom Krediet Lecture
ARE NEW PD SOLUTIONS THE SOLUTION? QUALITY CARE AT END OF LIFE, LIFE FOR YOUNG AND OLD MAINTAINING PATIENTS ON PD
(French Stream)
REDEFINING PERITONEAL DIALYSIS TREATMENT GOALS
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Laura Gillis & Anjali Saxena Co-Chairpersons: Edwina Brown & Nicola Wearne Chairperson: Annie-Claire Nadeau-Fredette Co-Chairpersons: Yazied Chothia & Dina Abdelatiff
9:00 Glucose transport blockade across peritoneal membrane: A novel therapeutic option?
Karin Bergling, USA
9:00 Frailty and dialysis decisions
Philip Li, Hong Kong
9:00 Protéger la membrane péritonéale, maintenant, et dans le futur? (How to protect the peritoneal membrane, now and in the future?)
Eric Goffin, Belgium
9:00 The problem with "V": Reassessing traditional metrics in PD
Osama El Shamy, USA
9:20 Novel glucose-free PD solutions: Where are we now?
Mark Lambie, United Kingdom
9:20 Challenges of palliative care in low healthcare resource settings
Peace Bagasha, Uganda
9:20 Augmenter l'extraction sodée en dialyse péritonéal, une solution pour augmenter la survie de la DP? (Increasing sodium extraction in peritoneal dialysis, a solution to increase PD survival?)
Clémence Béchade, France
9:20 Incremental PD for children
Bashir Admani, Kenya
9:40 Rethinking glucose: The implications of steady concentration peritoneal dialysis for clinical practice
Martin Wilkie, United Kingdom
9:40 Determinants and trends of peritoneal dialysis withdrawal in Australia: A 20-year national cohort study
Kate Brotherton, Australia
9:40 Dénutrition en dialyse péritonéale quelle place pour la nutrition entérale? (Malnutrition on PD, what is the role of enteral nutrition?)
Thierry Lobbedez, France
9:40 Achieving high-quality, individualized PD: A personalized approach
Richard Corbett, United Kingdom
10:00 Point of care PD solution generation: Design, rationale, and current status
Peter Rutherford, Switzerland
9:50 Transitioning from PD to supportive care
Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
10:00 Dialyse hybride, quand, comment, pourquoi (Hybrid dialysis: When, how and why?)
Annabel Boyer, France
10:00 Role of PD in heart failure
Simon Davies, United Kingdom
10:20 XyloCore reverses peritoneal fibrosis by regulating metabolism and extracellular matrix remodeling
Valentina Masola, Italy
10:10 Patient and family support: perspective of a youth worker
Clarissa Lawrence, South Africa
10:20 Outcomes on peritoneal dialysis in patients with primary kidney disease related to multiple myeloma: A cohort study with data from the French Language Peritoneal Dialysis Registry
Annabel Boyer, France
10:20 Frailty, not sarcopenia or protein-energy wasting, predicts mortality in peritoneal dialysis: A prospective cohort study
Sarinya Boongird, Thailand
10:25 Discussion
10:30 Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
HOT TOPICS IN PD PD ON THE EDGE PRESCRIBING PD FOR BEST OUTCOMES
(French Stream)
YOUNG NEPHROLOGISTS COMMITTEE SESSION: AI IN PD
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Lily Mushahar & Sampson Antwi Co-Chairpersons: Mignon McCulloch & Ana Figueiredo Chairperson: Thierry Lobbedez Co-Chairpersons: Ankur Shah & Bianca Davidson
11:00 PD in diabetes
Laura Gillis, United Kingdom
11:00 PD in Emergency situations and disasters
Rumeyza Kazancioglu, Turkey
11:00 La DP dans le parcours intégré de la maladie rénale chronique (PD as part of an integrated approach to CKD management)
Annie-Claire Nadeau-Fredette, Canada
11:00 DEBATE: AI will revolutionise PD
Pro: Winston Fung, Hong Kong
Con: Ben Talbot, United Kingdom
11:20 Peritoneal Dialysis management of the patient with cardiovascular disease
Roberto Pecoits-Filho, USA
11:25 Outcomes of improvised peritoneal dialysis fluids in managing acute kidney injury among paediatric patients in Kenya
Grace Ngaruiya, Kenya
11:25 Particularité des troubles minéraux et osseux en dialyse péritonéale? (Management and particularities of mineral and bone disorders on PD)
Fabrice Mac Way, Canada
11:30 Early career nephrologist presentations:
Clinical research: Melissa Cheetham, Australia Multiomic research: Michael Balzer, Germany
11:40 PD in AKI
Brett Cullis, South Africa
11:35 What is urgent start PD?
Ali Abu Alfa, Lebanon
11:50 Quels sont les outils pour bien débuter la dialyse péritonéale? (How do I get started right from the beginning with peritoneal dialysis?)
Thierry Lobbedez, France
12:00 AI in PD research
Yeoungjee Cho, Australia
12:00 DEBATE: Local production of PD fluid is the answer to PD growth in low resource settings
Pro: Ahad Qayyum, Pakistan Con: Vivek Jha, India
12:00 PD in paediatric AKI
Peter Nourse, South Africa
12:15 A complicated and burdensome dialysis experience in Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1
Hanène Gaied, Tunisia
12:20 Peritoneal and Cardiac Impact of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporter 2 Inhibitors in a Peritoneal Dialysis-Exposed Murine-Model
Micky Karsten, The Netherlands
12:20 Discussion 12:25 Discussion 12:25 Discussion
12:30 Lunch Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
12:55 - 13:55 LUNCH SYMPOSIUM - VANTIVE SYMPOSIUM
Chairperson: Peter Rutherford
Venue: Auditorium 1
12:55 - 13:55 Leveraging data insights to improve therapy outcomes across countries with varying levels of equity of access Rumeyza Kazancioglu, Turkey
Osama El Shamy, USA
Brett Cullis, South Africa
Veronica Miya, South Africa
PLENARY SESSION
Venue: Auditorium 1
Co-Chairpersons: Edwina Brown & Peace Bagasha
14:00 - 14:45 Managing symptoms to promote good quality of life
Frank Brennan, Australia
FROM CLEAR TO CLOUDY EFFLUENT, AND CLEAR TO CLOUDY EVIDENCE: NAVIGATING CONTROVERSIES IN PD-RELATED INFECTION MANAGEMENT PD ACCESS - ACHIEVING BEST OUTCOMES PERITONITIS
(French Stream)
LIFE PARTICIPATION IN PD
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Adrian Liew & Maria Slon Roblero Co-Chairpersons: Eddie Tan & Elaine Bowes Chairperson: Eric Goffin Co-Chairpersons: Frank Brennan & Melissa Cheetham
15:00 Preventing PD-related infections: Myths, evidence, and ongoing debates
David Johnson, Australia
15:00 Best practice in PD Access surgery
Henry Van Niekerk, South Africa
15:00 Quelles sont les évolution de la bactériologie des péritonites? (Bacteriological trends over time in PD fluid infection)
Annabel Boyer, France
15:00 Older patients - living life to the full
Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
15:20 Timely and accurate diagnosis of PD peritonitis: Strengths and limitations of emerging technology
Adrian Liew, Singapore
15:20 How nephrologists can ensure best outcomes for percutaneous insertion
Robert Freercks, South Africa
15:20 Peut on traiter les péritonites par voie orale? (Can peritonitis be treated orally?)
Eric Goffin, France
15:20 Depression in dialysis
Marjorie Foo, Singapore
15:40 Peritonitis treatment in 2025: What the guidelines say-and what they don't
Philip Li, Hong Kong
15:40 Effect of silver-coated peritoneal dialysis catheters on biofilm reduction
Takefumi Mori, Japan
15:40 Doit on traiter les péritonites par voie péritonéale? (Should peritonitis be treated with intraperitoneally route?)
Fabrice Mac Way, Canada
15:40 Validation of the Standardised Outcomes in Nephrology - Life Participation (SONG-LP) instrument in people receiving dialysis
Cameron Burnett, Australia
16:00 Impact of peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis on kidney transplant outcomes: Binational registry study
Na Jiang, China
15:50 Nursing management of PD catheter dysfunction
Abdullah Bohassan, Saudi Arabia
16:00 Discussion 15:50 Exercise in PD to improve wellbeing
Kopano Malebo, South Africa
16:10 Discussion 16:10 Discussion 16:10 Discussion
16:15 Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
PDI SESSION - REVIEWS OF LITERATURE - BASIC SCIENCE, CLINICAL AND JOURNAL CLUB PD IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM SPORT PD ACCESS
(French Stream)
NUTRITION IN PD - PAEDS AND ADULTS AKI
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Martin Wilkie & Ankur Shah Co-Chairpersons: Sally Punzalan & Alda Vermeulen Co-Chairperson: Younoussa Keita Co-Chairpersons: Angela Yee-Moon Wang & Josephine Chow
16:45 Best of clinical science from PDI
Ankur Shah, USA
16:45 Structuring the team for a new PD unit
Ahad Qayyum, Pakistan
16:45 La pose percutanée du catheter de dialyse péritonéale par le néphrologue (Percutaneous insertion of the PD catheter by the nephrologist)
Annabel Boyer, France
16:45 Educating patients on eating on PD - improving the joy of eating
Zarina Ebrahim, South Africa
17:00 Best of PD research from non-PDI
Sydney Tang, Hong Kong
17:00 Predialysis education - ensuring a balanced approach
Leigh Morton, South Africa
17:05 Migration du catheter, comment prévenir et traiter? (Catheter migration: how to prevent and treat?)
Karlien Francois, Belgium
17:00 Role of MDT in supporting nutrition and fluid balance
Abdullah Bohassan, Saudi Arabia
17:15 Best of paediatric research
Peter Nourse, South Africa
17:15 Home visits: The when, the who and why
Maritza Horn, South Africa
17:25 Biofilm du cathéter de dalyse péritonéale, que faut il faire? (How to handle PD catheter biofilm)
Clémence Béchade, France
17:15 Nutrition for the growing child
Shihaam Cader, South Africa
17:30 Best of basic research
Roland Schmitt, Germany
17:30 Collecting and assessing patient reported outcome measures
Melissa Cheetham, Australia
17:45 Discussion 17:30 Obesity: Role of exercise, new drugs, diet and bariatric surgery
Jenny Shen, USA
17:45 Nursing contributions to PDI
Ana Figueiredo, Brazil
17:45 Recurrent dialysis-dependent acute kidney injury in a neonate with metabolic disease. First institutional experience
Mignon McCulloch, South Africa
17:45 Defining and understanding wasting syndromes in dialysis: Early results from the DYNAMICA study
Eric Goffin, Belgium
17:55 Discussion
18:00 - 18:45 Young Nephrologists Committee (YNC) Quiz Venue: Auditorium 1 Alcove
18:15 Poster Presentations and Networking Venue: Auditorium 1 Foyer




Friday, 2 October 2026

ISPD Congress and SA Renal Congress - Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC 1)

7:00 Registration SA Renal Congress Registration Open from 11:00 Registration Foyer
7:00 - 8:00 BREAKFAST MEETING - ASPEN PHARMACARE Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
  Managing the complexity of bone disease in CKD: From guidelines to new therapies Brett Cullis, South Africa
7:00 - 8:00 BREAKFAST MEETING - ASTRAZENECA - C5 Inhibition in Complement - Mediated TMA - aHUS Launch
Chairperson: Errol Gottlich
Venue: Auditorium 2
7:00 Welcome & Opening Errol Gottlich, South Africa
7:05 Thrombotic microangiopathy and acute kidney injury: When should aHUS and C5 inhibition come to mind? Miguel Blasco, Spain
7:30 Q & A Panel
7:35 Compliment inhibition and renal recovery in aHUS: A patient case Errol Gottlich, South Africa
7:45 From crisis to control: An adult aHUS case study Claudia Do Vale, South Africa
7:55 Closing remarks Errol Gottlich, South Africa
7:00 - 8:00 ASK THE EXPERTS - CASES Venue: Auditorium 1 Alcove
7:00 - 8:00 Paediatric Cases Deveshni Reddy, South Africa and Peter Nourse, South Africa
PLENARY SESSION
Venue: Auditorium 1
Co-Chairpersons: Adrian Liew & Ana Figueiredo
8:00 - 8:45 Evidenced based education - building the next generation of expert nurses and patients
Josephine Chow, Australia
GROWING THE PERITONEAL DIALYSIS FOOTPRINT WHAT BASIC SCIENCE CAN TEACH THE CLINICIAN - MEMBRANE PHYSIOLOGY CONSERVATIVE CARE AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
(French Stream)
AFRAN SYMPOSIUM Department of Health Optimising Access to Dialysis Workshop
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Talergnsak Kanjanabuch & Adrian Liew Co-Chairpersons: Roland Schmitt & Wesley van Hougenhouk-Tulleken Chairperson: Karlien Francois Co-Chairpersons: Sampson Antwi & Abdou Niang Co-Chairs: Yazied Chothia & Albert Muranda
9:00 Empowering patients to choose PD
Brigitte Schiller, USA
9:00 New PD solutions - can basic science lead to improvements for patients
Rebecca Herzog, Austria
9:00 Le traitement conservateur, expérience des Néphrologues en Afrique. (Conservative care: the experience of nephrologists in Africa)
Jacques Vigan, Belgium
9:00 PD in Africa - Where are we now
Rasha Darwish, Egypt
9:00 Sound ethical principles when making optimal use of dialysis spaces
Rafique Moosa, South Africa
9:20 Developing PD networks to support growth
Jie Dong, China
9:25 SGLT and glucose transporters in the peritoneum
Karin Bergling, USA
9:25 Comment mesurer la qualité de vie en Afrique? (Measuring the quality of life in Africa)
Nadia Kabbali, Morocco
9:20 PD training for nephrologists in low resource settings
Abdou Niang, Senegal
9:15 Mitigating psychological stresses associated with dialysis rationing
Kerry Louw, South Africa
9:40 The International Home Dialysis Consortium - does implementation lead to effect
Vivek Jha, India
9:45 Beyond the membrane - what Multi-Omics can teach us about PD
Rebecca Herzog, Austria
9:50 La Dialayse Péritonéale comme dialyse palliative? (Peritoneal dialysis as palliative dialysis?)
Clémence Béchade, France
9:40 Acute PD in Africa - lessons from the Saving Young Lives Program
Mignon McCulloch, South Africa
9:30 Safely navigating the medicolegal challenges associated with decisions regarding dialysis access
Adv Kgorohlo Moabelo, South Africa
10:00 Expanding PD through advocacy
Lily Mushahar, Malaysia
10:10 Alteration of gut microbiota during peritoneal dialysis contributes to peritoneal fibrosis partly through increased production of trimethylamine N-oxide
Na Jiang, China
10:15 Discussion 10:00 Peritoneal dialysis in South Africa: prevalence and survival outcomes among incident patients
Thabiet Jardine, South Africa
9:45 Pro Con Debate: "There should be a national dialysis rationing policy"
Pro: Malcolm Davies, South Africa
Con: Vakhtang Rekhviashvili, South Africa
10:20 Strengthening the PD-First Policy through continuous quality improvement: Lessons from the Thai Renal Quality Program
Kamol Khositrangsikun, Thailand
10:20 Discussion 10:10 Telemedicine - high-quality care for rural populations
Ramon Paniagua, Mexico
10:05 Panel Discussion
Panellists: Zunaid Barday, Nicola Wearne, Nina Diana, Malcolm Davies, Robert Freercks, Alain Assounga, Feziwe Bisiwe, Peter Nourse and Mignon McCulloch
10:30 Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
TOWARDS ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE PERITONEAL DIALYSIS WHAT BASIC SCIENCE CAN TEACH THE CLINICIAN AKI AND URGENT START
(French Stream)
EXPANDING PD AND ACCELERATING GROWTH FROM FELLOW TO LEADER: BUILDING A CAREER IN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Anabela Malho Guedes & Simon Davies Co-Chairpersons: Rebecca Herzog & Karlien Francois Chairperson: Agathe Nkoy Co-Chairpersons: Ahad Qayyum & Abdullah Bohassan Co-Chairpersons: Osama El Shamy & Mohammed Abdelrahman
10:50 Challenges in achieving sustainability
Winston Fung, Hong Kong
10:50 Immunometabolism in PD
Rebecca Herzog, Austria
10:50 Panorama de l'insuffisance rénale aigue en Afrique, une place pour la DP? (Overview of AKI in Africa, and the place of PD in its management)
Abdou Niang, Senegal
10:50 PD - A global perspective
Yeoungjee Cho, Australia
10:50 Best practices in drafting and submitting abstracts and case reports
Martin Wilkie, United Kingdom
11:05 Identifying opportunities for improvement
Ben Talbot, United Kingdom
11:10 Membrane aging and senescence
Roland Schmitt, Germany
11:10 La dialyse péritonéale chez les sujets non plannifi (PD for unplanned dialysis starters)
Eric Goffin, Belgium
11:10 Keys to success - the impact of government policy
Talergnsak Kanjanabuch, Thailand
11:10 Social media (How to leverage social media for PD education and patient engagement?)
Dan Oriba Langoya, Uganda
11:20 Industry perspectives - Future plans and directions
Peter Rutherford, Brigitte Schiller and Marjorie Foo
11:30 Cardiovascular effects of PD
Micky Karsten, The Netherlands
11:30 Catheters et solutions de dialyse péritonéale de secours (Catheter and emergency PD solution: how to do PD with what you have)
Nadia Kabbali, Morocco
11:30 Getting out of first gear - how to move from regional to national growth
Ahad Qayyum, Pakistan
11:30 Roles and opportunities for clinicians/non-scientists in contributing to epidemiology and research manuscripts
Raj Mehrotra, USA
12:00 A life cycle assessment investigating the location dependence of dialysis environmental impacts
Carolyn Bernemann, USA
11:50 c-Fos/LCN2 axis from mesothelial cells induces peritoneal inflammation and fibrosis through triggering C-type lectin receptor signalling pathway
Jing Guo, China
11:50 Peritoneal dialysis in emergency settings for end-stage renal disease: Between necessity and limitations
Belabbes Bouterfas, Algeria
11:50 Empowering nurses is essential for PD growth
Reena George, India
11:50 Leadership opportunities within the ISPD: developing PD growth in your region
Adrian Liew, Singapore
12:00 Impact of SGLT1 and SGLT2 deletion on glucose uptake in rat peritoneal mesothelial cells
Takuo Hirose, Japan
12:00 Discussion
12:10 Lunch Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
12:25 - 13:25 ISPD Nutrition Guidelines
Co-Chairpersons: Josephine Chow & Jie Dong
Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
12:25 Transforming nutrition care in PD Angela Yee-Moon Wang, Singapore
12:55 Deep dive into protein-energy wasting in PD Zarina Ebrahim, South Africa
12:25 - 13:25 SA National Department of Health "PD-First" Policy Launch
Co-Chairpersons: Feziwe Bisiwe & Nina Diana
Venue: Auditorium 1
12:20 Welcome from the Department of Health Ms Caroline Mongale, South Africa
12:25 Why do we need a PD first Policy in South Africa? Brett Cullis, South Africa
12:40 South Africa's PD First Policy - what you need to know Robert Freercks, South Africa
13:00 Panel Discussion Panellists: Fanie Du Toit, South Africa, Peter Nourse, South Africa, Jonathan Maree, South Africa; Nicola Wearne, South Africa
PLENARY SESSION (French)
Venue: Auditorium 1
Co-Chairpersons: Abdou Niang & Annabel Boyer
13:30 - 14:15 What registries can do to promote PD growth - Nolph Lecture
Thierry Lobbedez, France
 
ISPD CONGRESS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: SANS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: RCSSA PROGRAMME
ISN SESSION GUIDELINES SESSION PAEDIATRIC
(French Session)
TRANSPLANT
Supported by Astellas
INFECTION CONTROL & QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Sydney Tang & Marina Wainstein Co-Chairpersons: Richard Corbett & Philip Li Chairperson: Younoussa Keita Co-Chairpersons: Malcolm Davies & Wesley van Hougenhouk-Tulleken Co-Chairpersons: Reena Moodley & Maritza Horn
14:30 CKD as an NCD emergency proposed solutions and feedback from the WHA
Marcello Tonelli, Canada
14:30 Developing ISPD Guidelines - journey from start to implementation
Josephine Chow, Australia
14:30 L'abord péritonéale en urgence chez l'enfant, l'expérience du Sénégal (Emergency PD catheter insertion in children, the Senegal experience)
Younoussa Keita, Senegal
14:30 Kidney paired donation: Unlocking opportunities to increase donor numbers
Zunaid Barday, South Africa
14:30 Growing up on dialysis: The struggles and strengths of adolescents
Zibya Barday, South Africa
14:50 The Global Kidney Health Atlas
David Johnson, Australia
14:50 Managing the transfer to HD
Mark Lambie, United Kingdom
14:50 Faut il mesurer la pression intra-péritonéale chez l'enfant (Should intraperitoneal pressure be measured in paediatric PD?)
Agathe Nkoy, DRC
14:45 Governance in transplantation: Understanding the in workings of the Ministerial Advisory Committee
Albert Muranda, South Africa
14:45 PD and HD dialysis catheter management: Reducing risk, improving outcomes
Elaine Bowes, United Kingdom
15:10 The ISN framework for dialysis provision in LMIC's - the role of PD potentials and pitfalls?
Abdou Niang, Senegal
15:10 Teaching PD
Ana Figueiredo, Brazil
15:10 La dialyse péritonéale chez l'enfant, expérience de la RDC (Paediatric PD: the experience of DRC)
Agathe Nkoy, DRC
15:00 Challenges in paediatric transplantation - not for the faint hearted
Mignon McCulloch, South Africa
15:00 Managing isolation on the dialysis unit: MDR bacteria, Blood borne Viruses and other nasties
Nina Diana, South Africa
15:30 Discussion 15:30 Discussion 15:30 Discussion 15:15 Navigating Viral Hepatitis in Transplantation: Challenges and Solutions
Mark Sonderup, South Africa
15:15 The Absence of Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines for Haemodialysis Units in South Africa: An Urgent Call for Policy Action
Siyanda Ngema, South Africa
15:30 Safety and effectiveness of long-term isoniazid treatment for the prevention of tuberculosis in high-risk dialysis patients
Robert Freercks, South Africa
15:30 Successful peritoneal dialysis in a paediatric patient residing in informal housing, South Africa. A case report.
Nesi Dlamini, South Africa
15:35 Kidney biopsy findings in children between 0 and 60 months of age from minimally invasive tissue sampling autopsies in Soweto, South Africa
Prudence Mdhluli, South Africa
15:40 Building Sustainable Kidney Transplant Programmes in Africa: The AFRAN Transplant Guidelines
Wesley van Hougenhouck-Tulleken, South Africa
15:45 - 16:00 Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
ISPD CONGRESS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: SANS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: RCSSA PROGRAMME
NAVIGATING OVERHYDRATION IN PD: DO NOVEL ASSESSMENT TOOLS SPEAK VOLUMES? PDOPPS SESSION QUALITY PRESCRIBING - INCREMENTAL, SYMPTOM CONTROL, PSYCHOSOCIAL, MAINTAINING ON PD
(French Session)
GLOMERULONEPHRITIS VASCULAR ACCESS
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Mignon McCulloch & Osama El Shamy Co-Chairpersons: Mark Lambie & Yazied Chothia Chairperson: Fabrice Mac Way Co-Chairpersons: Zunaid Barday & Shoyab Wadee Co-Chairpersons: Jonathan Maree & David Mphuthi
16:00 DEBATE: Technology is necessary to assess fluid balance in the modern era
Pro: Maria Slon, Spain
Con: Simon Davies, United Kingdom
16:00 PDOPPS global overview
Roberto Pecoits-Filho, USA
16:00 Les unité de transition pour la Dialyse Péritonéale (Transit care units for PD)
Annie-Claire Nadeau-Fredette, Canada
16:00 How many cell types are there in the kidney and what do they do
Michael Balzer, Germany
16:00 Dialysis vascular access monitoring and intervention
Eddie Tan, New Zealand
16:45 Devising New Devices: Innovations in peritoneal dialysis technology
Osama El Shamy, USA
16:10 Are we winning the battle against infection - PDOPPS weighs in
Roberto Pecoits-Filho, USA
16:15 L'adéquation?, changement de concept? (Adequacy on PD? a new paradigm of care)
Annabel Boyer, France
16:18 How to treat IgA nephropathy in 2026
Sydney Tang, Hong Kong
16:30 Using POC ultrasound to manage and access the haemodialysis patient
Shareshnee Govender, South Africa
17:05 An explainable machine-learning model for identifying and validating fast peritoneal transfer rate with prognostic implications in patients with peritoneal dialysis
Jing Guo, China
16:25 How has PDOPPS influence clinical guidelines in Japan
Yasuhiko Ito, Japan
16:30 La collaboration avec les centres experts pour augmenter la durée de la dialyse péritonéale (Collaboration with expert centres to increase the duration on PD)
Karlien Francois, Belgium
16:36 The Kidney's local dialect. Glomerular disease experience in central South Africa
Feziwe Bisiwe, South Africa
16:45 Needling techniques - buttonhole vs rope ladder which should we use?
Tinus du Toit, South Africa
  16:40 PD prescribing. Are we too prescriptive
Ankur Shah, USA
16:45 DPA first ou DPCA first pour durer en Dialyse Péritonéale? (PD first or DPCA first to last longer on PD?)
Thierry Lobbedez, France
16:54 How I treat lupus nephritis in 2026
Kate Webb, South Africa
17:00 Evaluating the Effect of Structured Patient Education on Dialysis Outcomes in South Africa
Tebogo Ndhlovo, South Africa
  16:55 Transforming PD in LMIC's - lessons from PDOPPS
Talerngsak Kanjanabuch, Thailand
17:00 Peritoneal dialysis in the Republic of Congo: History and current issues
Pierre Eric Gandzali Ngabe, Congo
17:12 A retrospective study of kidney transplantation ineligibility at a tertiary level public hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa
Lauren Musson, South Africa
17:15 SA Renal Registry Report
Thabiet Jardine, South Africa
      17:17 Genetics and clinical phenotype of children with nephrotic syndrome at a tertiary hospital in South Africa: A descriptive study
Shannon Leahy, South Africa
 
      17:22 Dissecting Genetic Contributors to eGFR Bias: Impact of African-Enriched GATM Regulatory Variants on Creatinine-Derived eGFR
June Fabian, South Africa
 
      17:27 Diagnostic Yield & Clinical Impact of Kidney Biopsy in Patients with Diabetes and Proteinuria in a South African Tertiary Centre
Aadil Omar, South Africa
 
18:00 SA Renal Congress Networking Function Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)




Saturday, 3 October 2026

ISPD Congress and SA Renal Congress - Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC 1)

7:00 Registration Registration Foyer
7:00 - 8:00 ISPD General Assembly Venue: Auditorium 2
7:00 - 8:00 SA Renal Congress Plenary Session
Co-Chairpersons: Christel Du Buisson & Zubair Asmal
Venue: Auditorium 1
7:00 - 7:20 Managing symptoms in patients not offered dialysis Peace Bagasha, Uganda
7:20 - 8:00 Debate: Dialysis for the marginal patients Shoyab Wadee, South Africa vs. Graham Paget, South Africa
PLENARY SESSION
Venue: Auditorium 1
Co-Chairpersons: Brett Cullis & Jenny Shen
8:00 - 8:45 The future of healthcare-related research in Africa: Collaboration and innovation Ntobeko Ntusi, South Africa
ISPD CONGRESS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: SANS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: RCSSA PROGRAMME
MANAGING PD-RELATED TRANSITIONS NURSING DEVELOPMENT AFRICAN NEPHROLOGY POLICY FORUM PREGNANCY / NEONATAL OUTCOMES HAEMODIALYSIS
Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Ali Abu Alfa & Ulrika Hahn Lundstrom Co-Chairpersons: Barbara Crisp & Maritza Horn Co-Chairpersons: Charles Swanepoel & Nicola Wearne Co-Chairpersons: Deveshni Reddy & Feziwe Bisiwe Co-Chairpersons: Vusi Mkatshwa & Ansune Korb
9:00 Transitioning from CKD to PD - Role of predialysis education
Sally Punzalan, United Kingdom
9:00 Patient education and adherence with low health literacy
Martiza Horn, South Africa
9:00 Welcome
Charles Swanepoel, South Africa
9:00 Screening and follow up of CAKUT
Christel Du Buisson, South Africa
9:00 Technology to interpret fluid balance and HD adequacy - common pitfalls
Vakhtang Rekhviashvili, South Africa
9:20 Transitioning PD to HD: Who, when & how
Ali Abu Alfa, Lebanon
9:20 Mentoring and professional development
Ana Figueiredo, Brazil
9:10 The current status of CKD, dialysis workforce in Africa
Abdou Niang, Senegal
9:15 Pregnancy-associated AKI: Life after the acute phase
Bianca Davidson, South Africa
9:15 Hypotension on dialysis - is it all about fluid?
Malcolm Davies, South Africa
9:40 Transitioning PD from paediatrics to adults: Is there an ideal time?
Zibya Barday, South Africa
9:40 Supporting PD nurse growth in Africa
Barbara Crisp, South Africa
9:30 Preventative management of CKD, saving lives and dollars
Marcello Tonelli, Canada
9:45 Neonatal AKI management
Bashir Admani, Kenya
9:30 New dialysis membranes, are they worth the hype?
Alda Vermeulen, South Africa
10:00 Transitioning from AKI to ESKD in low resource areas
Sampson Antwi, Ghana
10:00 Discussion 9:50 Approach to dialysis provision in Africa - Acute to chronic
Brett Cullis, South Africa
10:00 Comparison of survival outcomes between South African patients on haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
Bala Waziri, Nigeria
9:45 Balancing bleeding and clotting: Anticoagulation in dialysis
Lungiswa Mtingi-Nkonzombi, South Africa
10:05 Delays in kidney replacement therapy workup in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease at Helen Joseph Hospital
Anashya Hirmamun, South Africa
10:10 Beyond Delivery: APOL1 Risk and Early Postpartum Kidney Health After Preeclampsia in South Africa
Bianca Davidson, South Africa
10:20 Urgent-start dialysis: Peritoneal or hemodialysis-which fares better?
Abhilash Chandra, India
10:10 Nurse sensitive indicators
Sally Punzalan, United Kingdom
10:05 The forgotten ones - kidney disease in Children
Mignon McCulloch, South Africa
10:15 Renal Function Trajectories and Tacrolimus Exposure in Paediatric Liver Transplant Recipients: A South African Cohort Study
Tholang Khumalo, South Africa
10:00 Artificial Intelligence Readiness in Nephrology: Awareness, Perceptions, and Barriers to Adoption Among Kidney Care Professionals in South Africa
Boitumelo Mudumela, South Africa
10:20 Discussion 10:20 Mortality in critically ill patients requiring kidney replacement therapy (KRT) for cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI): a retrospective analysis
Jessica Joseph, South Africa
10:15 Being a mother with Kidney Failure: A scoping review of qualitative studies on women who fell pregnant while on haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis in Africa
Siyanda Ngema, South Africa
10:25 High Incidence and Mortality of Chronic Kidney Disease in Africa: Longitudinal Findings from the AWI-Gen Cohort
Saabira Amod, South Africa
10:30 Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
ISPD CONGRESS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: SANS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: RCSSA PROGRAMME
LATE-BREAKING STUDIES NOVEL IT IN PD - TRAINING, MONITORING, USE OF AI ETC. AFRICAN NEPHROLOGY POLICY FORUM CARDIO-RENAL METABOLIC SYNDROME ETHICAL DIALYSIS MANAGEMENT
Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Roland Schmitt & Anjali Saxena Co-Chairpersons: Winston Fung & Ben Talbot Co-Chairpersons: Charles Swanepoel & Abdou Niang Co-Chairpersons: Phetho Mangena & TBC Co-Chairpersons: Mark Padavattan & Nozipho Magundumane-Tladi
11:00 Safety and acceptability of an antimicrobial impregnated catheter for the prevention of peritoneal dialysis catheter-related infections
Maarten Taal, United Kingdom
11:00 Flexing PD delivery with wearable devices
Marjorie Foo, Singapore
11:00 Conservative care in Africa - Making the most of a bad situation
Nicola Wearne, South Africa
11:00 The prevalence and severity of the symptom burden in patients with End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) in a resource limited setting
Ane Jansen van Vuuren, South Africa
11:00 Ethical approaches to managing disruptive behaviours in the dialysis unit
Yeoungjee Cho, Australia
11:05 Retrospective review of the spectrum of HIV-related kidney pathology at a tertiary centre in South Africa
Anna-Liisa Tonata Kaapangelwa, South Africa
11:15 A prospective, multicenter, randomized, crossover study of ultrafiltration and peritoneal sodium removal in steady concentration peritoneal dialysis
Jennifer Allen, United Kingdom
11:20 PDTAP - results of systematic PD telemedicine platform in China
Jie Dong, China
11:15 Ethics surrounding the management of kidney disease in Africa
Valerie Luyckx, Switzerland
11:10 Beyond Numbers. Navigating BP in Diabetes
Yazied Chothia, South Africa
11:20 Nursing care and ethical responsibility in dialysis symptom management
Frank Brennan, Australia
11:30 Parietal Peritoneal Elastography Reflects Structural Burden Rather Than Functional Transport in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients
Mahmud Islam, Turkey
11:40 Harnessing AI to enhance outcomes in PD
Osama El Shamy, Canada
11:27 Experience of developing the kidney programme in Kenya - A policy makers perspective
Stephen Mutiso, Kenya
11:30 Predicting long term Cardiovascular outcomes using albuminuria and eGFR
June Fabian, South Africa
11:40 Respecting culture, saving lives: Navigating ethical barriers to donation
Veronica Miya, South Africa
11:45 The portable WEarable Artificial KIDney (WEAKID) device for peritoneal dialysis: Preliminary safety and efficacy results from the First-in-Human trial
Dian P. Bolhuis, Netherlands
12:00 Remote patient monitoring does it improve outcomes in rural areas
Ramon Paniaguas, Mexico
11:35 Managing conflicting priorities in healthcare
Nicholas Crisp, South Africa
11:50 Incremental dialysis: Benefits and cardiovascular risks
Melissa Cheetham, Australia
11:55 When should patients take their medication in relation to dialysis? Shattering the myths
Lindie van Tonder, South Africa
12:00 When the Water Stops: Dialysis at Risk During Urban Flooding in a Middle-Income Country With a PD-First Policy
Uraiwan Parinyasiri, Thailand
12:20 Discussion 11:55 Panel Discussion 12:10 CKDOPPS: Global practice patterns in CKD 3 - 5
Roberto Pecoits-Filho, USA
12:15 Discussion
12:15 Discussion
12:40 ISPD AND SA RENAL CONGRESS CLOSING CEREMONY Auditorium 1
12:40 Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks Rajnish Mehrotra, USA
12:45 Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks Brett Cullis, South Africa
12:48 Renal Care Society of South Africa (RCSSA) Awards Reena Moodley, South Africa
12:55 South African Nephrology Society (SANS) Awards Nicola Wearne, South Africa
13:02 ISPD Asia Pacific Chapter Meeting 2027 Busan Prof Choi, South Korea
13:05 ISPD EuroPD Porto Anabela Rodriguez, Portugal
13:13 Closing Nicola Wearne, South Africa
Tuesday, 29 September 2026

Pre-congress CME - Capetonian Hotel, Raya 2 & 3

08:00 Workshop Registration Meeting Room Foyer
BASICS OF PD WORKSHOP
Supported by Adcock Ingram Critical Care
Chairperson: Brett Cullis
08:30 Welcome
09:00 Peritoneal dialysis - Who, why and when
Brett Cullis, South Africa
09:20 Anatomy and physiology of the peritoneal membrane
Bianca Davidson, South Africa
09:40 PD prescribing including APD
Nicola Wearne, South Africa
10:00 PD access, keys to success
Lungiswa Mtingi-Nkonzombi, South Africa
10:20 Discussion
10:30 Tea / Coffee Break Meeting Room Foyer
Chairperson: Nicola Wearne
11:00 Predialysis education and patient identification
Petronella Ranjit, South Africa
11:20 How to train a patient on PD
Leigh Morton, South Africa
11:40 Infectious complications
Wesley van Hougenhouk-Tulleken, South Africa
12:00 PD in Children
Ashton Coetzee, South Africa
12:20 Discussion
12:30 Lunch Break Meeting Room Foyer
13:30 Non-infectious complications
Alda Vermeulen, South Africa
13:50 Case studies - Peritonitis
Faculty
15:00 Tea / Coffee Break Meeting Room Foyer
15:30 Case Studies - Prescribing and fluid management
Faculty
16:30 Closing Remarks
Wednesday, 30 September 2026

Pre-congress CME, Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC 1)

8:00 Workshop Registration At Each Workshop Venue
PRACTICALITIES OF PD FUNDAMENTALS OF PD CME WORKSHOP
Supported by Fresenius Medical Care
HANDS-ON PD ACCESS WORKSHOP
Supported by Vantive
Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room: 1.63 & 1.64 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Ana Figueiredo & Josephine Chow Co-Chairpersons: Edwina Brown & Anjali Saxena Co-Chairpersons: Robert Freercks, Eddie Tan & Richard Corbett
8:50 Welcome and introduction
Ana Figueiredo, Brazil
8:50 Welcome and introduction
Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
8:50 Welcome and introduction
Robert Freercks, South Africa
9:00 Planning to start a program and quality care initiatives
Ahad Qayyum, Pakistan
9:00 PD post-surgery
Anjali Saxena, USA
9:00 PD access history and current best practices
Eddie Tan, New Zealand
9:20 How to improve nurse autonomy and get doctor buy-in for best care for patients
Leigh Morton, South Africa
9:25 Preserving the peritoneal membrane
Rumeyza Kazancioglu, Turkey
9:24 Managing access related complications
Richard Corbett, United Kingdom
9:40 Practicalities of training a patient
Josephine Chow, Australia
9:50 Managing itching, pain and other symptoms
Nicola Wearne, South Africa
9:48 Paediatric PD insertion techniques
Peter Nourse, South Africa
10:00 Supporting the new patient
Sally PunzalPre-congress CME, Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC 1)an, United Kingdom
10:15 Electrolyte management - Sodium, Potassium and phosphate
Talerngsak Kajanabuch, Thailand
10:12 Preoperative assessment, preparation and sedation for PD catheter insertion
Brett Cullis, South Africa
10:20 Tailoring PD to your patient and adapting prescriptions
Barbara Crisp, South Africa
10:40 Managing increasing frailty
Yasuhiko Ito, Japan
10:36 The percutaneous PD catheter insertion technique
Robert Freercks, South Africa
10:40 Discussion
11:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
11:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
11:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
11:30 Managing the tricky medical patient - heart failure, diabetes, BMD
Rasha Darwish, Egypt
PD DELIVERY: HOW AND FOR WHOM? 11:30 Post operative management of the PD catheter
Nicola Wearne, South Africa
Meeting Room: 1.63 & 1.64
11:50 Access skin marking and post catheter insertion care
Elaine Bowes, United Kingdom
11:30 Personalised prescribing
Anjali Saxena, USA
12:00 Demonstration of Catheter insertion in adults
Eddie Tan, New Zealand
12:10 Infectious and non-infectious complications
Abdullah Bohasan, Saudi Arabia
11:48 Knowing the peritoneal membrane helps prescribing
Richard Corbett, United Kingdom
12:30 Demonstration of catheter insertion in paediatrics
Mignon McCulloch, South Africa
12:30 Residual kidney function, clearance and PET - indications, collection and interpretation
Ana Figueiredo, Brazil
12:06 PD in the Anuric patient
Lily Mushahar, Malaysia
 
12:50 Discussion 12:24 Managing fluid overload
Maria Slon, Spain
 
12:42 Assisted PD
Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
 
13:00 Lunch Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
13:00 Lunch Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
13:00 Lunch Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
HANDS ON TRAINING WITH FACULTY TROUBLESHOOTING: LEARNING FROM CASE STUDIES HANDS ON TRAINING WITH FACULTY
Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room: 1.63 & 1.64 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Edwina Brown & Jenny Shen
14:00 - 16:00 Hand hygiene technique 14:00 Recurrent exit site infections
Bianca Davidson, South Africa
14:00 - 16:00 PD catheter insertion
Faculty: Richard Corbett, Robert Freercks, Mignon McCulloch, Peter Nourse, Nicola Wearne, Elaine Bowes, Annabel Boyer, Thierry Lobbedez, Eddie Tan, Guillermo Hidalgo, Ashton Coetzee, Christel du Buisson, Deveshni Reddy, Agathe Nkoy, Younoussa Keita, Abdou Niang, Karlien Francois, Brett Cullis
PD catheter exit site care and dressing 14:30 Supporting patients in low resource environments
Jenny Shen, USA
Line changes and line contamination 15:00 Hernia repairs and leaks
Lungiswa Mtingi-Nkonzombi, South Africa
Collecting sample and adding IP antibiotics 15:30 Acute kidney injury
Sampson Antwi, Ghana
16:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
16:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
16:00 Tea / Coffee Break
Venue: Meeting Room Foyer
15:00 ISPD Congress Registration Registration Foyer
17:00 Opening Ceremony Auditorium 1
17:00 Introduction Shoyab Wadee, South Africa
17:02 Welcome from Local Organising Chairperson Brett Cullis, South Africa
17:07 Welcome from South African Nephrology Society President Nicola Wearne, South Africa
17:11 National Anthem All Delegates
17:13 Welcome and Address from Deputy Director, Department of Health Mrs J Hunter, South Africa
17:20 Address from Scientific Programme Chairperson Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
17:25 ISPD President's Report Rajnish Mehrotra, USA
17:50 Oreopoulos Award Brett Cullis, South Africa
17:53 John Maher Award Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
17:55 John Maher Lecture Ahad Qayyum, Pakistan
18:30 Networking Function Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
Thursday, 1 October 2026

ISPD Congress - Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC 1)

7:00 Registration in Registration Foyer Registration Foyer
7:00 - 8:00 BREAKFAST MEETING - FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE - Can less be more? The case for incremental PD across diverse settings Moderator: Yeoungjee Cho Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
  Incremental PD - Introductory overview Yeoungjee Cho, Australia
  Incremental CAPD - French patient case Clémence Béchade, France
  Incremental PD - South African perspective Nicola Wearne, South Africa
  Interactive Q & A with the audience  
7:00 - 8:00 ASK THE EXPERTS - CASES Venue: Auditorium 1 Alcove
7:00 - 8:00 Case discussions on common clinical cases Martin Wilkie, United Kingdom, Laura Gillis, United Kingdom and Brett Cullis, South Africa
PLENARY SESSION
Venue: Auditorium 1
Co-Chairpersons: Rajnish Mehrotra and Martin Wilkie
8:00 - 8:05 Presentation of the Bergstrom Award
8:05 - 8:50 What will PD look like in 2036?
Simon Davies, United Kingdom Krediet Lecture
ARE NEW PD SOLUTIONS THE SOLUTION? QUALITY CARE AT END OF LIFE, LIFE FOR YOUNG AND OLD MAINTAINING PATIENTS ON PD
(French Stream)
REDEFINING PERITONEAL DIALYSIS TREATMENT GOALS
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Laura Gillis & Anjali Saxena Co-Chairpersons: Edwina Brown & Nicola Wearne Chairperson: Annie-Claire Nadeau-Fredette Co-Chairpersons: Yazied Chothia & Dina Abdelatiff
9:00 Glucose transport blockade across peritoneal membrane: A novel therapeutic option?
Karin Bergling, USA
9:00 Frailty and dialysis decisions
Philip Li, Hong Kong
9:00 Protéger la membrane péritonéale, maintenant, et dans le futur? (How to protect the peritoneal membrane, now and in the future?)
Eric Goffin, Belgium
9:00 The problem with "V": Reassessing traditional metrics in PD
Osama El Shamy, USA
9:20 Novel glucose-free PD solutions: Where are we now?
Mark Lambie, United Kingdom
9:20 Challenges of palliative care in low healthcare resource settings
Peace Bagasha, Uganda
9:20 Augmenter l'extraction sodée en dialyse péritonéal, une solution pour augmenter la survie de la DP? (Increasing sodium extraction in peritoneal dialysis, a solution to increase PD survival?)
Clémence Béchade, France
9:20 Incremental PD for children
Bashir Admani, Kenya
9:40 Rethinking glucose: The implications of steady concentration peritoneal dialysis for clinical practice
Martin Wilkie, United Kingdom
9:40 Determinants and trends of peritoneal dialysis withdrawal in Australia: A 20-year national cohort study
Kate Brotherton, Australia
9:40 Dénutrition en dialyse péritonéale quelle place pour la nutrition entérale? (Malnutrition on PD, what is the role of enteral nutrition?)
Thierry Lobbedez, France
9:40 Achieving high-quality, individualized PD: A personalized approach
Richard Corbett, United Kingdom
10:00 Point of care PD solution generation: Design, rationale, and current status
Peter Rutherford, Switzerland
9:50 Transitioning from PD to supportive care
Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
10:00 Dialyse hybride, quand, comment, pourquoi (Hybrid dialysis: When, how and why?)
Annabel Boyer, France
10:00 Role of PD in heart failure
Simon Davies, United Kingdom
10:20 XyloCore reverses peritoneal fibrosis by regulating metabolism and extracellular matrix remodeling
Valentina Masola, Italy
10:10 Patient and family support: perspective of a youth worker
Clarissa Lawrence, South Africa
10:20 Outcomes on peritoneal dialysis in patients with primary kidney disease related to multiple myeloma: A cohort study with data from the French Language Peritoneal Dialysis Registry
Annabel Boyer, France
10:20 Frailty, not sarcopenia or protein-energy wasting, predicts mortality in peritoneal dialysis: A prospective cohort study
Sarinya Boongird, Thailand
10:25 Discussion
10:30 Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
HOT TOPICS IN PD PD ON THE EDGE PRESCRIBING PD FOR BEST OUTCOMES
(French Stream)
YOUNG NEPHROLOGISTS COMMITTEE SESSION: AI IN PD
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Lily Mushahar & Sampson Antwi Co-Chairpersons: Mignon McCulloch & Ana Figueiredo Chairperson: Thierry Lobbedez Co-Chairpersons: Ankur Shah & Bianca Davidson
11:00 PD in diabetes
Laura Gillis, United Kingdom
11:00 PD in Emergency situations and disasters
Rumeyza Kazancioglu, Turkey
11:00 La DP dans le parcours intégré de la maladie rénale chronique (PD as part of an integrated approach to CKD management)
Annie-Claire Nadeau-Fredette, Canada
11:00 DEBATE: AI will revolutionise PD
Pro: Winston Fung, Hong Kong
Con: Ben Talbot, United Kingdom
11:20 Peritoneal Dialysis management of the patient with cardiovascular disease
Roberto Pecoits-Filho, USA
11:25 Outcomes of improvised peritoneal dialysis fluids in managing acute kidney injury among paediatric patients in Kenya
Grace Ngaruiya, Kenya
11:25 Particularité des troubles minéraux et osseux en dialyse péritonéale? (Management and particularities of mineral and bone disorders on PD)
Fabrice Mac Way, Canada
11:30 Early career nephrologist presentations:
Clinical research: Melissa Cheetham, Australia Multiomic research: Michael Balzer, Germany
11:40 PD in AKI
Brett Cullis, South Africa
11:35 What is urgent start PD?
Ali Abu Alfa, Lebanon
11:50 Quels sont les outils pour bien débuter la dialyse péritonéale? (How do I get started right from the beginning with peritoneal dialysis?)
Thierry Lobbedez, France
12:00 AI in PD research
Yeoungjee Cho, Australia
12:00 DEBATE: Local production of PD fluid is the answer to PD growth in low resource settings
Pro: Ahad Qayyum, Pakistan Con: Vivek Jha, India
12:00 PD in paediatric AKI
Peter Nourse, South Africa
12:15 A complicated and burdensome dialysis experience in Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1
Hanène Gaied, Tunisia
12:20 Peritoneal and Cardiac Impact of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporter 2 Inhibitors in a Peritoneal Dialysis-Exposed Murine-Model
Micky Karsten, The Netherlands
12:20 Discussion 12:25 Discussion 12:25 Discussion
12:30 Lunch Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
12:55 - 13:55 LUNCH SYMPOSIUM - VANTIVE SYMPOSIUM
Chairperson: Peter Rutherford
Venue: Auditorium 1
12:55 - 13:55 Leveraging data insights to improve therapy outcomes across countries with varying levels of equity of access Rumeyza Kazancioglu, Turkey
Osama El Shamy, USA
Brett Cullis, South Africa
Veronica Miya, South Africa
PLENARY SESSION
Venue: Auditorium 1
Co-Chairpersons: Edwina Brown & Peace Bagasha
14:00 - 14:45 Managing symptoms to promote good quality of life
Frank Brennan, Australia
FROM CLEAR TO CLOUDY EFFLUENT, AND CLEAR TO CLOUDY EVIDENCE: NAVIGATING CONTROVERSIES IN PD-RELATED INFECTION MANAGEMENT PD ACCESS - ACHIEVING BEST OUTCOMES PERITONITIS
(French Stream)
LIFE PARTICIPATION IN PD
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Adrian Liew & Maria Slon Roblero Co-Chairpersons: Eddie Tan & Elaine Bowes Chairperson: Eric Goffin Co-Chairpersons: Frank Brennan & Melissa Cheetham
15:00 Preventing PD-related infections: Myths, evidence, and ongoing debates
David Johnson, Australia
15:00 Best practice in PD Access surgery
Henry Van Niekerk, South Africa
15:00 Quelles sont les évolution de la bactériologie des péritonites? (Bacteriological trends over time in PD fluid infection)
Annabel Boyer, France
15:00 Older patients - living life to the full
Edwina Brown, United Kingdom
15:20 Timely and accurate diagnosis of PD peritonitis: Strengths and limitations of emerging technology
Adrian Liew, Singapore
15:20 How nephrologists can ensure best outcomes for percutaneous insertion
Robert Freercks, South Africa
15:20 Peut on traiter les péritonites par voie orale? (Can peritonitis be treated orally?)
Eric Goffin, France
15:20 Depression in dialysis
Marjorie Foo, Singapore
15:40 Peritonitis treatment in 2025: What the guidelines say-and what they don't
Philip Li, Hong Kong
15:40 Effect of silver-coated peritoneal dialysis catheters on biofilm reduction
Takefumi Mori, Japan
15:40 Doit on traiter les péritonites par voie péritonéale? (Should peritonitis be treated with intraperitoneally route?)
Fabrice Mac Way, Canada
15:40 Validation of the Standardised Outcomes in Nephrology - Life Participation (SONG-LP) instrument in people receiving dialysis
Cameron Burnett, Australia
16:00 Impact of peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis on kidney transplant outcomes: Binational registry study
Na Jiang, China
15:50 Nursing management of PD catheter dysfunction
Abdullah Bohassan, Saudi Arabia
16:00 Discussion 15:50 Exercise in PD to improve wellbeing
Kopano Malebo, South Africa
16:10 Discussion 16:10 Discussion 16:10 Discussion
16:15 Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
PDI SESSION - REVIEWS OF LITERATURE - BASIC SCIENCE, CLINICAL AND JOURNAL CLUB PD IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM SPORT PD ACCESS
(French Stream)
NUTRITION IN PD - PAEDS AND ADULTS AKI
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
Co-Chairpersons: Martin Wilkie & Ankur Shah Co-Chairpersons: Sally Punzalan & Alda Vermeulen Co-Chairperson: Younoussa Keita Co-Chairpersons: Angela Yee-Moon Wang & Josephine Chow
16:45 Best of clinical science from PDI
Ankur Shah, USA
16:45 Structuring the team for a new PD unit
Ahad Qayyum, Pakistan
16:45 La pose percutanée du catheter de dialyse péritonéale par le néphrologue (Percutaneous insertion of the PD catheter by the nephrologist)
Annabel Boyer, France
16:45 Educating patients on eating on PD - improving the joy of eating
Zarina Ebrahim, South Africa
17:00 Best of PD research from non-PDI
Sydney Tang, Hong Kong
17:00 Predialysis education - ensuring a balanced approach
Leigh Morton, South Africa
17:05 Migration du catheter, comment prévenir et traiter? (Catheter migration: how to prevent and treat?)
Karlien Francois, Belgium
17:00 Role of MDT in supporting nutrition and fluid balance
Abdullah Bohassan, Saudi Arabia
17:15 Best of paediatric research
Peter Nourse, South Africa
17:15 Home visits: The when, the who and why
Maritza Horn, South Africa
17:25 Biofilm du cathéter de dalyse péritonéale, que faut il faire? (How to handle PD catheter biofilm)
Clémence Béchade, France
17:15 Nutrition for the growing child
Shihaam Cader, South Africa
17:30 Best of basic research
Roland Schmitt, Germany
17:30 Collecting and assessing patient reported outcome measures
Melissa Cheetham, Australia
17:45 Discussion 17:30 Obesity: Role of exercise, new drugs, diet and bariatric surgery
Jenny Shen, USA
17:45 Nursing contributions to PDI
Ana Figueiredo, Brazil
17:45 Recurrent dialysis-dependent acute kidney injury in a neonate with metabolic disease. First institutional experience
Mignon McCulloch, South Africa
17:45 Defining and understanding wasting syndromes in dialysis: Early results from the DYNAMICA study
Eric Goffin, Belgium
17:55 Discussion
18:00 - 18:45 Young Nephrologists Committee (YNC) Quiz Venue: Auditorium 1 Alcove
18:15 Poster Presentations and Networking Venue: Auditorium 1 Foyer
Friday, 2 October 2026

ISPD Congress and SA Renal Congress - Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC 1)

7:00 Registration SA Renal Congress Registration Open from 11:00 Registration Foyer
7:00 - 8:00 BREAKFAST MEETING - ASPEN PHARMACARE Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
  Managing the complexity of bone disease in CKD: From guidelines to new therapies Brett Cullis, South Africa
7:00 - 8:00 BREAKFAST MEETING - ASTRAZENECA - C5 Inhibition in Complement - Mediated TMA - aHUS Launch
Chairperson: Errol Gottlich
Venue: Auditorium 2
7:00 Welcome & Opening Errol Gottlich, South Africa
7:05 Thrombotic microangiopathy and acute kidney injury: When should aHUS and C5 inhibition come to mind? Miguel Blasco, Spain
7:30 Q & A Panel
7:35 Compliment inhibition and renal recovery in aHUS: A patient case Errol Gottlich, South Africa
7:45 From crisis to control: An adult aHUS case study Claudia Do Vale, South Africa
7:55 Closing remarks Errol Gottlich, South Africa
7:00 - 8:00 ASK THE EXPERTS - CASES Venue: Auditorium 1 Alcove
7:00 - 8:00 Paediatric Cases Deveshni Reddy, South Africa and Peter Nourse, South Africa
PLENARY SESSION
Venue: Auditorium 1
Co-Chairpersons: Adrian Liew & Ana Figueiredo
8:00 - 8:45 Evidenced based education - building the next generation of expert nurses and patients
Josephine Chow, Australia
GROWING THE PERITONEAL DIALYSIS FOOTPRINT WHAT BASIC SCIENCE CAN TEACH THE CLINICIAN - MEMBRANE PHYSIOLOGY CONSERVATIVE CARE AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
(French Stream)
AFRAN SYMPOSIUM Department of Health Optimising Access to Dialysis Workshop
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Talergnsak Kanjanabuch & Adrian Liew Co-Chairpersons: Roland Schmitt & Wesley van Hougenhouk-Tulleken Chairperson: Karlien Francois Co-Chairpersons: Sampson Antwi & Abdou Niang Co-Chairs: Yazied Chothia & Albert Muranda
9:00 Empowering patients to choose PD
Brigitte Schiller, USA
9:00 New PD solutions - can basic science lead to improvements for patients
Rebecca Herzog, Austria
9:00 Le traitement conservateur, expérience des Néphrologues en Afrique. (Conservative care: the experience of nephrologists in Africa)
Jacques Vigan, Belgium
9:00 PD in Africa - Where are we now
Rasha Darwish, Egypt
9:00 Sound ethical principles when making optimal use of dialysis spaces
Rafique Moosa, South Africa
9:20 Developing PD networks to support growth
Jie Dong, China
9:25 SGLT and glucose transporters in the peritoneum
Karin Bergling, USA
9:25 Comment mesurer la qualité de vie en Afrique? (Measuring the quality of life in Africa)
Nadia Kabbali, Morocco
9:20 PD training for nephrologists in low resource settings
Abdou Niang, Senegal
9:15 Mitigating psychological stresses associated with dialysis rationing
Kerry Louw, South Africa
9:40 The International Home Dialysis Consortium - does implementation lead to effect
Vivek Jha, India
9:45 Beyond the membrane - what Multi-Omics can teach us about PD
Rebecca Herzog, Austria
9:50 La Dialayse Péritonéale comme dialyse palliative? (Peritoneal dialysis as palliative dialysis?)
Clémence Béchade, France
9:40 Acute PD in Africa - lessons from the Saving Young Lives Program
Mignon McCulloch, South Africa
9:30 Safely navigating the medicolegal challenges associated with decisions regarding dialysis access
Adv Kgorohlo Moabelo, South Africa
10:00 Expanding PD through advocacy
Lily Mushahar, Malaysia
10:10 Alteration of gut microbiota during peritoneal dialysis contributes to peritoneal fibrosis partly through increased production of trimethylamine N-oxide
Na Jiang, China
10:15 Discussion 10:00 Peritoneal dialysis in South Africa: prevalence and survival outcomes among incident patients
Thabiet Jardine, South Africa
9:45 Pro Con Debate: "There should be a national dialysis rationing policy"
Pro: Malcolm Davies, South Africa
Con: Vakhtang Rekhviashvili, South Africa
10:20 Strengthening the PD-First Policy through continuous quality improvement: Lessons from the Thai Renal Quality Program
Kamol Khositrangsikun, Thailand
10:20 Discussion 10:10 Telemedicine - high-quality care for rural populations
Ramon Paniagua, Mexico
10:05 Panel Discussion
Panellists: Zunaid Barday, Nicola Wearne, Nina Diana, Malcolm Davies, Robert Freercks, Alain Assounga, Feziwe Bisiwe, Peter Nourse and Mignon McCulloch
10:30 Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
TOWARDS ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE PERITONEAL DIALYSIS WHAT BASIC SCIENCE CAN TEACH THE CLINICIAN AKI AND URGENT START
(French Stream)
EXPANDING PD AND ACCELERATING GROWTH FROM FELLOW TO LEADER: BUILDING A CAREER IN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Anabela Malho Guedes & Simon Davies Co-Chairpersons: Rebecca Herzog & Karlien Francois Chairperson: Agathe Nkoy Co-Chairpersons: Ahad Qayyum & Abdullah Bohassan Co-Chairpersons: Osama El Shamy & Mohammed Abdelrahman
10:50 Challenges in achieving sustainability
Winston Fung, Hong Kong
10:50 Immunometabolism in PD
Rebecca Herzog, Austria
10:50 Panorama de l'insuffisance rénale aigue en Afrique, une place pour la DP? (Overview of AKI in Africa, and the place of PD in its management)
Abdou Niang, Senegal
10:50 PD - A global perspective
Yeoungjee Cho, Australia
10:50 Best practices in drafting and submitting abstracts and case reports
Martin Wilkie, United Kingdom
11:05 Identifying opportunities for improvement
Ben Talbot, United Kingdom
11:10 Membrane aging and senescence
Roland Schmitt, Germany
11:10 La dialyse péritonéale chez les sujets non plannifi (PD for unplanned dialysis starters)
Eric Goffin, Belgium
11:10 Keys to success - the impact of government policy
Talergnsak Kanjanabuch, Thailand
11:10 Social media (How to leverage social media for PD education and patient engagement?)
Dan Oriba Langoya, Uganda
11:20 Industry perspectives - Future plans and directions
Peter Rutherford, Brigitte Schiller and Marjorie Foo
11:30 Cardiovascular effects of PD
Micky Karsten, The Netherlands
11:30 Catheters et solutions de dialyse péritonéale de secours (Catheter and emergency PD solution: how to do PD with what you have)
Nadia Kabbali, Morocco
11:30 Getting out of first gear - how to move from regional to national growth
Ahad Qayyum, Pakistan
11:30 Roles and opportunities for clinicians/non-scientists in contributing to epidemiology and research manuscripts
Raj Mehrotra, USA
12:00 A life cycle assessment investigating the location dependence of dialysis environmental impacts
Carolyn Bernemann, USA
11:50 c-Fos/LCN2 axis from mesothelial cells induces peritoneal inflammation and fibrosis through triggering C-type lectin receptor signalling pathway
Jing Guo, China
11:50 Peritoneal dialysis in emergency settings for end-stage renal disease: Between necessity and limitations
Belabbes Bouterfas, Algeria
11:50 Empowering nurses is essential for PD growth
Reena George, India
11:50 Leadership opportunities within the ISPD: developing PD growth in your region
Adrian Liew, Singapore
12:00 Impact of SGLT1 and SGLT2 deletion on glucose uptake in rat peritoneal mesothelial cells
Takuo Hirose, Japan
12:00 Discussion
12:10 Lunch Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
12:25 - 13:25 ISPD Nutrition Guidelines
Co-Chairpersons: Josephine Chow & Jie Dong
Venue: Meeting Room 1.4
12:25 Transforming nutrition care in PD Angela Yee-Moon Wang, Singapore
12:55 Deep dive into protein-energy wasting in PD Zarina Ebrahim, South Africa
12:25 - 13:25 SA National Department of Health "PD-First" Policy Launch
Co-Chairpersons: Feziwe Bisiwe & Nina Diana
Venue: Auditorium 1
12:20 Welcome from the Department of Health Ms Caroline Mongale, South Africa
12:25 Why do we need a PD first Policy in South Africa? Brett Cullis, South Africa
12:40 South Africa's PD First Policy - what you need to know Robert Freercks, South Africa
13:00 Panel Discussion Panellists: Fanie Du Toit, South Africa, Peter Nourse, South Africa, Jonathan Maree, South Africa; Nicola Wearne, South Africa
PLENARY SESSION (French)
Venue: Auditorium 1
Co-Chairpersons: Abdou Niang & Annabel Boyer
13:30 - 14:15 What registries can do to promote PD growth - Nolph Lecture
Thierry Lobbedez, France
 
ISPD CONGRESS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: SANS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: RCSSA PROGRAMME
ISN SESSION GUIDELINES SESSION PAEDIATRIC
(French Session)
TRANSPLANT
Supported by Astellas
INFECTION CONTROL & QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Sydney Tang & Marina Wainstein Co-Chairpersons: Richard Corbett & Philip Li Chairperson: Younoussa Keita Co-Chairpersons: Malcolm Davies & Wesley van Hougenhouk-Tulleken Co-Chairpersons: Reena Moodley & Maritza Horn
14:30 CKD as an NCD emergency proposed solutions and feedback from the WHA
Marcello Tonelli, Canada
14:30 Developing ISPD Guidelines - journey from start to implementation
Josephine Chow, Australia
14:30 L'abord péritonéale en urgence chez l'enfant, l'expérience du Sénégal (Emergency PD catheter insertion in children, the Senegal experience)
Younoussa Keita, Senegal
14:30 Kidney paired donation: Unlocking opportunities to increase donor numbers
Zunaid Barday, South Africa
14:30 Growing up on dialysis: The struggles and strengths of adolescents
Zibya Barday, South Africa
14:50 The Global Kidney Health Atlas
David Johnson, Australia
14:50 Managing the transfer to HD
Mark Lambie, United Kingdom
14:50 Faut il mesurer la pression intra-péritonéale chez l'enfant (Should intraperitoneal pressure be measured in paediatric PD?)
Agathe Nkoy, DRC
14:45 Governance in transplantation: Understanding the in workings of the Ministerial Advisory Committee
Albert Muranda, South Africa
14:45 PD and HD dialysis catheter management: Reducing risk, improving outcomes
Elaine Bowes, United Kingdom
15:10 The ISN framework for dialysis provision in LMIC's - the role of PD potentials and pitfalls?
Abdou Niang, Senegal
15:10 Teaching PD
Ana Figueiredo, Brazil
15:10 La dialyse péritonéale chez l'enfant, expérience de la RDC (Paediatric PD: the experience of DRC)
Agathe Nkoy, DRC
15:00 Challenges in paediatric transplantation - not for the faint hearted
Mignon McCulloch, South Africa
15:00 Managing isolation on the dialysis unit: MDR bacteria, Blood borne Viruses and other nasties
Nina Diana, South Africa
15:30 Discussion 15:30 Discussion 15:30 Discussion 15:15 Navigating Viral Hepatitis in Transplantation: Challenges and Solutions
Mark Sonderup, South Africa
15:15 The Absence of Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines for Haemodialysis Units in South Africa: An Urgent Call for Policy Action
Siyanda Ngema, South Africa
15:30 Safety and effectiveness of long-term isoniazid treatment for the prevention of tuberculosis in high-risk dialysis patients
Robert Freercks, South Africa
15:30 Successful peritoneal dialysis in a paediatric patient residing in informal housing, South Africa. A case report.
Nesi Dlamini, South Africa
15:35 Kidney biopsy findings in children between 0 and 60 months of age from minimally invasive tissue sampling autopsies in Soweto, South Africa
Prudence Mdhluli, South Africa
15:40 Building Sustainable Kidney Transplant Programmes in Africa: The AFRAN Transplant Guidelines
Wesley van Hougenhouck-Tulleken, South Africa
15:45 - 16:00 Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
ISPD CONGRESS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: SANS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: RCSSA PROGRAMME
NAVIGATING OVERHYDRATION IN PD: DO NOVEL ASSESSMENT TOOLS SPEAK VOLUMES? PDOPPS SESSION QUALITY PRESCRIBING - INCREMENTAL, SYMPTOM CONTROL, PSYCHOSOCIAL, MAINTAINING ON PD
(French Session)
GLOMERULONEPHRITIS VASCULAR ACCESS
Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Mignon McCulloch & Osama El Shamy Co-Chairpersons: Mark Lambie & Yazied Chothia Chairperson: Fabrice Mac Way Co-Chairpersons: Zunaid Barday & Shoyab Wadee Co-Chairpersons: Jonathan Maree & David Mphuthi
16:00 DEBATE: Technology is necessary to assess fluid balance in the modern era
Pro: Maria Slon, Spain
Con: Simon Davies, United Kingdom
16:00 PDOPPS global overview
Roberto Pecoits-Filho, USA
16:00 Les unité de transition pour la Dialyse Péritonéale (Transit care units for PD)
Annie-Claire Nadeau-Fredette, Canada
16:00 How many cell types are there in the kidney and what do they do
Michael Balzer, Germany
16:00 Dialysis vascular access monitoring and intervention
Eddie Tan, New Zealand
16:45 Devising New Devices: Innovations in peritoneal dialysis technology
Osama El Shamy, USA
16:10 Are we winning the battle against infection - PDOPPS weighs in
Roberto Pecoits-Filho, USA
16:15 L'adéquation?, changement de concept? (Adequacy on PD? a new paradigm of care)
Annabel Boyer, France
16:18 How to treat IgA nephropathy in 2026
Sydney Tang, Hong Kong
16:30 Using POC ultrasound to manage and access the haemodialysis patient
Shareshnee Govender, South Africa
17:05 An explainable machine-learning model for identifying and validating fast peritoneal transfer rate with prognostic implications in patients with peritoneal dialysis
Jing Guo, China
16:25 How has PDOPPS influence clinical guidelines in Japan
Yasuhiko Ito, Japan
16:30 La collaboration avec les centres experts pour augmenter la durée de la dialyse péritonéale (Collaboration with expert centres to increase the duration on PD)
Karlien Francois, Belgium
16:36 The Kidney's local dialect. Glomerular disease experience in central South Africa
Feziwe Bisiwe, South Africa
16:45 Needling techniques - buttonhole vs rope ladder which should we use?
Tinus du Toit, South Africa
  16:40 PD prescribing. Are we too prescriptive
Ankur Shah, USA
16:45 DPA first ou DPCA first pour durer en Dialyse Péritonéale? (PD first or DPCA first to last longer on PD?)
Thierry Lobbedez, France
16:54 How I treat lupus nephritis in 2026
Kate Webb, South Africa
17:00 Evaluating the Effect of Structured Patient Education on Dialysis Outcomes in South Africa
Tebogo Ndhlovo, South Africa
  16:55 Transforming PD in LMIC's - lessons from PDOPPS
Talerngsak Kanjanabuch, Thailand
17:00 Peritoneal dialysis in the Republic of Congo: History and current issues
Pierre Eric Gandzali Ngabe, Congo
17:12 A retrospective study of kidney transplantation ineligibility at a tertiary level public hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa
Lauren Musson, South Africa
17:15 SA Renal Registry Report
Thabiet Jardine, South Africa
      17:17 Genetics and clinical phenotype of children with nephrotic syndrome at a tertiary hospital in South Africa: A descriptive study
Shannon Leahy, South Africa
 
      17:22 Dissecting Genetic Contributors to eGFR Bias: Impact of African-Enriched GATM Regulatory Variants on Creatinine-Derived eGFR
June Fabian, South Africa
 
      17:27 Diagnostic Yield & Clinical Impact of Kidney Biopsy in Patients with Diabetes and Proteinuria in a South African Tertiary Centre
Aadil Omar, South Africa
 
18:00 SA Renal Congress Networking Function Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
Saturday, 3 October 2026

ISPD Congress and SA Renal Congress - Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC 1)

7:00 Registration Registration Foyer
7:00 - 8:00 ISPD General Assembly Venue: Auditorium 2
7:00 - 8:00 SA Renal Congress Plenary Session
Co-Chairpersons: Christel Du Buisson & Zubair Asmal
Venue: Auditorium 1
7:00 - 7:20 Managing symptoms in patients not offered dialysis Peace Bagasha, Uganda
7:20 - 8:00 Debate: Dialysis for the marginal patients Shoyab Wadee, South Africa vs. Graham Paget, South Africa
PLENARY SESSION
Venue: Auditorium 1
Co-Chairpersons: Brett Cullis & Jenny Shen
8:00 - 8:45 The future of healthcare-related research in Africa: Collaboration and innovation Ntobeko Ntusi, South Africa
ISPD CONGRESS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: SANS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: RCSSA PROGRAMME
MANAGING PD-RELATED TRANSITIONS NURSING DEVELOPMENT AFRICAN NEPHROLOGY POLICY FORUM PREGNANCY / NEONATAL OUTCOMES HAEMODIALYSIS
Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Ali Abu Alfa & Ulrika Hahn Lundstrom Co-Chairpersons: Barbara Crisp & Maritza Horn Co-Chairpersons: Charles Swanepoel & Nicola Wearne Co-Chairpersons: Deveshni Reddy & Feziwe Bisiwe Co-Chairpersons: Vusi Mkatshwa & Ansune Korb
9:00 Transitioning from CKD to PD - Role of predialysis education
Sally Punzalan, United Kingdom
9:00 Patient education and adherence with low health literacy
Martiza Horn, South Africa
9:00 Welcome
Charles Swanepoel, South Africa
9:00 Screening and follow up of CAKUT
Christel Du Buisson, South Africa
9:00 Technology to interpret fluid balance and HD adequacy - common pitfalls
Vakhtang Rekhviashvili, South Africa
9:20 Transitioning PD to HD: Who, when & how
Ali Abu Alfa, Lebanon
9:20 Mentoring and professional development
Ana Figueiredo, Brazil
9:10 The current status of CKD, dialysis workforce in Africa
Abdou Niang, Senegal
9:15 Pregnancy-associated AKI: Life after the acute phase
Bianca Davidson, South Africa
9:15 Hypotension on dialysis - is it all about fluid?
Malcolm Davies, South Africa
9:40 Transitioning PD from paediatrics to adults: Is there an ideal time?
Zibya Barday, South Africa
9:40 Supporting PD nurse growth in Africa
Barbara Crisp, South Africa
9:30 Preventative management of CKD, saving lives and dollars
Marcello Tonelli, Canada
9:45 Neonatal AKI management
Bashir Admani, Kenya
9:30 New dialysis membranes, are they worth the hype?
Alda Vermeulen, South Africa
10:00 Transitioning from AKI to ESKD in low resource areas
Sampson Antwi, Ghana
10:00 Discussion 9:50 Approach to dialysis provision in Africa - Acute to chronic
Brett Cullis, South Africa
10:00 Comparison of survival outcomes between South African patients on haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
Bala Waziri, Nigeria
9:45 Balancing bleeding and clotting: Anticoagulation in dialysis
Lungiswa Mtingi-Nkonzombi, South Africa
10:05 Delays in kidney replacement therapy workup in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease at Helen Joseph Hospital
Anashya Hirmamun, South Africa
10:10 Beyond Delivery: APOL1 Risk and Early Postpartum Kidney Health After Preeclampsia in South Africa
Bianca Davidson, South Africa
10:20 Urgent-start dialysis: Peritoneal or hemodialysis-which fares better?
Abhilash Chandra, India
10:10 Nurse sensitive indicators
Sally Punzalan, United Kingdom
10:05 The forgotten ones - kidney disease in Children
Mignon McCulloch, South Africa
10:15 Renal Function Trajectories and Tacrolimus Exposure in Paediatric Liver Transplant Recipients: A South African Cohort Study
Tholang Khumalo, South Africa
10:00 Artificial Intelligence Readiness in Nephrology: Awareness, Perceptions, and Barriers to Adoption Among Kidney Care Professionals in South Africa
Boitumelo Mudumela, South Africa
10:20 Discussion 10:20 Mortality in critically ill patients requiring kidney replacement therapy (KRT) for cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI): a retrospective analysis
Jessica Joseph, South Africa
10:15 Being a mother with Kidney Failure: A scoping review of qualitative studies on women who fell pregnant while on haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis in Africa
Siyanda Ngema, South Africa
10:25 High Incidence and Mortality of Chronic Kidney Disease in Africa: Longitudinal Findings from the AWI-Gen Cohort
Saabira Amod, South Africa
10:30 Tea / Coffee Break and Poster Viewing Exhibition Hall (Ballroom East & West)
ISPD CONGRESS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: SANS PROGRAMME SA RENAL CONGRESS: RCSSA PROGRAMME
LATE-BREAKING STUDIES NOVEL IT IN PD - TRAINING, MONITORING, USE OF AI ETC. AFRICAN NEPHROLOGY POLICY FORUM CARDIO-RENAL METABOLIC SYNDROME ETHICAL DIALYSIS MANAGEMENT
Venue: Meeting Room 1.4 Venue: Meeting Room 1.61 & 1.62 Venue: Auditorium 2 Venue: Auditorium 1 Venue: Meeting Room 1.63 & 1.64
Co-Chairpersons: Roland Schmitt & Anjali Saxena Co-Chairpersons: Winston Fung & Ben Talbot Co-Chairpersons: Charles Swanepoel & Abdou Niang Co-Chairpersons: Phetho Mangena & TBC Co-Chairpersons: Mark Padavattan & Nozipho Magundumane-Tladi
11:00 Safety and acceptability of an antimicrobial impregnated catheter for the prevention of peritoneal dialysis catheter-related infections
Maarten Taal, United Kingdom
11:00 Flexing PD delivery with wearable devices
Marjorie Foo, Singapore
11:00 Conservative care in Africa - Making the most of a bad situation
Nicola Wearne, South Africa
11:00 The prevalence and severity of the symptom burden in patients with End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) in a resource limited setting
Ane Jansen van Vuuren, South Africa
11:00 Ethical approaches to managing disruptive behaviours in the dialysis unit
Yeoungjee Cho, Australia
11:05 Retrospective review of the spectrum of HIV-related kidney pathology at a tertiary centre in South Africa
Anna-Liisa Tonata Kaapangelwa, South Africa
11:15 A prospective, multicenter, randomized, crossover study of ultrafiltration and peritoneal sodium removal in steady concentration peritoneal dialysis
Jennifer Allen, United Kingdom
11:20 PDTAP - results of systematic PD telemedicine platform in China
Jie Dong, China
11:15 Ethics surrounding the management of kidney disease in Africa
Valerie Luyckx, Switzerland
11:10 Beyond Numbers. Navigating BP in Diabetes
Yazied Chothia, South Africa
11:20 Nursing care and ethical responsibility in dialysis symptom management
Frank Brennan, Australia
11:30 Parietal Peritoneal Elastography Reflects Structural Burden Rather Than Functional Transport in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients
Mahmud Islam, Turkey
11:40 Harnessing AI to enhance outcomes in PD
Osama El Shamy, Canada
11:27 Experience of developing the kidney programme in Kenya - A policy makers perspective
Stephen Mutiso, Kenya
11:30 Predicting long term Cardiovascular outcomes using albuminuria and eGFR
June Fabian, South Africa
11:40 Respecting culture, saving lives: Navigating ethical barriers to donation
Veronica Miya, South Africa
11:45 The portable WEarable Artificial KIDney (WEAKID) device for peritoneal dialysis: Preliminary safety and efficacy results from the First-in-Human trial
Dian P. Bolhuis, Netherlands
12:00 Remote patient monitoring does it improve outcomes in rural areas
Ramon Paniaguas, Mexico
11:35 Managing conflicting priorities in healthcare
Nicholas Crisp, South Africa
11:50 Incremental dialysis: Benefits and cardiovascular risks
Melissa Cheetham, Australia
11:55 When should patients take their medication in relation to dialysis? Shattering the myths
Lindie van Tonder, South Africa
12:00 When the Water Stops: Dialysis at Risk During Urban Flooding in a Middle-Income Country With a PD-First Policy
Uraiwan Parinyasiri, Thailand
12:20 Discussion 11:55 Panel Discussion 12:10 CKDOPPS: Global practice patterns in CKD 3 - 5
Roberto Pecoits-Filho, USA
12:15 Discussion
12:15 Discussion
12:40 ISPD AND SA RENAL CONGRESS CLOSING CEREMONY Auditorium 1
12:40 Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks Rajnish Mehrotra, USA
12:45 Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks Brett Cullis, South Africa
12:48 Renal Care Society of South Africa (RCSSA) Awards Reena Moodley, South Africa
12:55 South African Nephrology Society (SANS) Awards Nicola Wearne, South Africa
13:02 ISPD Asia Pacific Chapter Meeting 2027 Busan Prof Choi, South Korea
13:05 ISPD EuroPD Porto Anabela Rodriguez, Portugal
13:13 Closing Nicola Wearne, South Africa