2022 Conference Program

THURSDAY OCTOBER 27
0700-0800 Registration and Continental Breakfast
0800-0830 Opening Remarks 
0830-1000 Opening Keynote – Dr Zayna Khayat

Due partly to technology and changing user expectations, healthcare is transitioning from a 19th-century institution that treated illness in hospitals, to a system that puts the power back into people’ hands. This has direct implications for all citizens, and not just the many million people who work in healthcare. From the experts developing innovative digital health tools today, to the young Canadians who will one day step into health-related jobs we haven’t dreamed of yet, the future of health will look nothing like its bricks-and-mortar past. It’s time for public institutions and the private sector to reimagine how healthcare will be organized, financed and delivered in years to come.

Join us to hear Dr. Zayna Khayat, a healthcare future strategist and VP at Teladoc Health, discuss the future of health(care).  With a long track record for healthcare innovation, Dr. Khayat brings powerful perspective, and insights into what citizens, care providers, and policy-makers must do today to future proof for tomorrow.
1000-1015 Refreshment Break
1015-1215 Workshop: Staying Connected: Helping you Manage Multiple Patients with a Few Clicks!
1215-1300 Lunch
1300-1400 Plenary – COVID-19 for Renal/Transplant Patients – What Providers and Patients Need to Know
1400-1445 Concurrent Sessions 1A – 1D
1A The Effects of a Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) 8-week Course on Nephrology Nurses’ Levels of Self-Compassion, Burnout, and Resilience
1B Lived Experiences of Transplant Journey: Learning from Patients and Families
1C Empowering Patients through Shared Care/Self -Cannulation
1D The Role of the Renal Perfusionist
1445-1500 Refreshment Break
1500-1545 Concurrent Sessions 2A – 2D
2A The Collaborative Practice Approach of SLED Treatments in an ICU Setting
2B Being a Pancreas is hard work: Diabetes post-transplant
2C What is Wrong with this Picture: The Hemodialysis Patient feels Faint, yet the Blood Pressure is Elevated?
2D Immunosuppressant Medications for Glomerulonephritis
1545-1600 Transition Break
1600-1645 Concurrent Sessions 3A – 3D
3A Introducing a Coaching Program to Optimize Resiliency and Agility peri- and post-pandemic to Renal Staff: An Advanced Practice Fellowship
3B Long Term Outcomes after Kidney Donation
3C Collective Consensual Analysis: Sharing learning and insights from an Indigenous Kidney Health Research Initiative
3D Home Hemodialysis Technology
1645-1845 Opening Reception in Exhibit Hall
1845 Evening Activity: Ghost Tour in Downtown Hamilton
FRIDAY OCTOBER 28
0630-0730 Rise and Shine! Morning Wellness Yoga with Shripal Parikh
0730-0830 Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
0830-0900 Sponsor Recognition and Award Presentations
0900-1000 Plenary – Ethics presented by Dr Jamie Robertson
1000-1100 Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
1100-1145 Concurrent Sessions 4A – 4D
4A Cultural Sensitivity Indiginous Community
4B Transplant Tourism
4C Implementation of a new Hemodialysis Central Venous Catheter dysfunction and Administration of Cathflo® (Alteplase) Protocol
4D Introduction to Geriatric Nephrology: Improving Care for Our Elderly Patients
1145-1245 Lunch in Exhibit Hall
1245-1330 Concurrent Sessions 5A – 5C
5A Water Treatment: From Out of Line to Online
5B Title TBC – Dr Matthew Oliver
5C Update on Phosphate binders in CKD
1330-1400 Refreshment Break and Exhibit Hall Draw Prizes 
1400-1445 Concurrent Sessions 6A – 6E
6A Title Topic TBC
6B title Topic TBC
6C Understanding CKD-Associated Pruritus: From Physiology to Management
6D Beyond the Blood Test: Mental Health Concerns of ESRD Patients and Tips for Frontline Workers
1445-1600 Plenary – The Future of Transplant
1800-2300 Evening of Entertainment – Murder Mystery Dinner
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29
0630-0730 Rise and Shine! Morning Wellness Activity Yoga with Shripal Parikh
0730-0900 Breakfast and CANNT Annual General Meeting
0900-1000 Plenary – Patient Empowerment Panel
1000-1015 Refreshment Break
1015-1100 Concurrent Sessions 7A – 7D
7A CNS Palliative Care
7B Living Kidney Donation: The Preferred Treatment Option for CKD Patients
7C Hemodialysis Orientation Week: It Takes a Village
7D One Day Donor Clinic
1100-1115 Stretch Break
1115-1200 Concurrent Sessions 8A – 8C
8A A Multifaceted Peritoneal Dialysis Training Program for Nurses
8B  Simultaneous Islet Kidney (SIK) Transplant
8C The Nurse-Tech Model of Care. The PB & J of Dialysis at St-Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
1200-1245 Lunch
1245-1330 Concurrent Sessions 9A – 9B
9A Guiding Best Practice: Routine use of Ultrasound in hemodialysis is important to optimize health, function, and longevity of the AV fistula/graft.
9B Etiology and classifying of blood stream infection among dialysis patient who received dialysis at long term care since 2020-2022
1330-1430 Closing Keynote: Komedy for Kindeys – Mark Matthews
1430-1500 Closing Ceremonies and Passing of Banner to CANNT 2023

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Meet our MC!

CANNT is excited to announce Mark Matthews will be the CANNT MC!

Mark Matthews stepped on stage to compete in the Funniest Person in Hamilton Contest in 1987. Out of 15 comics, he placed dead last. The next year he returned to win the contest and performed in New York City at Catch a Rising Star and The Comic Strip – two of Manhattan’s premier comedy clubs.

Performing for and hosting to support charities too numerous to list over 33 years, Mark has directly raised funds for: The Canadian Kidney Foundation, Autism Ontario, the ALS society, MS Society, Big Brothers and Big Sisters and many more. A former dialysis patient and kidney transplant recipient, Mark is the co-founder and producer of the annual Komedy for Kidneys Gala which has raised over $85,000.00 to date for Dialysis Patient Care in Niagara.

Mark will keep us on track throughout the CANNT Conference, and will close the conference with “Koping with Komedy” – a touching and humorous reflection on two modalities (PD and Hemo) and the transplant experience from the patient’s point of view.

Preliminary Program Schedule

THURSDAY OCTOBER 27
0700-0800 Registration and Continental Breakfast
0800-0830 Opening Remarks 
0830-1000 Opening Keynote: 

Zayna Khayat , Ph.D. VP, Client Success & Growth, Teledoc Health (Canada)

Zayna is VP of Growth & Client Success at Teladoc Health in Canada.  Zayna previously led the Futures team with national home healthcare and aging non-proift, SE Health, as their Future Strategist. Zayna is Faculty of Singularity University’ Exponential Medicine stream, and is adjunct faculty in the Health Sector Strategy stream at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Dr. Khayat was previously the lead of health system innovation at MaRS Discovery District, a health innovation hub in Toronto, Canada. In 2017 she was seconded to the REshape Innovation Centre at Radboud university medical centre in the Netherlands. Zayna completed her Ph.D. in diabetes research from the University of Toronto (2001), followed by a career in strategy consulting, including as a Principal in the healthcare practice of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). She currently resides in Toronto with her husband and three children and is proficient in French and Arabic languages.
1000-1015 Refreshment Break
1015-1215 Concurrent Workshops
1215-1300 Lunch
1300-1400 Plenary Session: Infectious Diseases – Dr. Chagla
1400-1445 Concurrent Sessions 1A – 1D
1445-1500 Refreshment Break
1500-1545 Concurrent Sessions 2A – 2D
1545-1600 Transition Break
1600-1645 Concurrent Sessions 3A – 3D
1645-1845 Opening Reception in Exhibit Hall
1845 Evening Activity: Ghost Walk of Downtown Hamilton!

Ghost stories and dark history of the core.  Stops at landmarks like the Royal Connaught, Right House, Hamilton Place, St. Paul’s Church and the Gothic Pigott Building.  Experience the haunted city in a unique way!
FRIDAY OCTOBER 28
0630-0730 Rise and Shine! Morning Wellness Yoga with Shripal Parikh
0730-0830 Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
0830-0900 Sponsor Recognition and Award Presentations
0900-1000 Plenary Session: Ethics – Jamie Robertson
1000-1100 Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
1100-1145 Concurrent Sessions 4A – 4D
1145-1245 Lunch in Exhibit Hall
1245-1330 Concurrent Sessions 5A – 5D
1330-1400 Refreshment Break and Exhibit Hall Draw Prizes
1400-1445 Concurrent Sessions 6A – 6D
1445-1600 Plenary Session: Future of Transplant – Dr. Christine Ribic
1800-2300 Evening of Entertainment – Murder Mystery Dinner
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29
0630-0730 Rise and Shine! Morning Wellness Activity Yoga with Shripal Parikh
0730-0900 Breakfast and CANNT Annual General Meeting
0900-1000 Plenary Session: Patient Empowerment Panel
1000-1015 Refreshment Break
1015-1100 Concurrent Sessions 7A – 7D
1100-1115 Transition Break
1115-1200 Concurrent Sessions 8A – 8D
1200-1245 Lunch
1245-1330 Concurrent Sessions 9A – 9D
1330-1430 Closing Keynote: Komedy for Kidneys
1430-1500 Closing Ceremonies and Passing of Banner to CANNT 2023