NxStageUsers Meet Up and Conference

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NxStageUsers, the largest dialyzor and care partner support and advocacy organization using the NxStage System One, is proud to announce its 1st Annual NxStageUsers Meet Up and Conference. It will be held from October 10- 15, with a conference on the 11th and 12th at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Rooms have been reserved at a cost of $59.99 for single or double, plus a $7.95 resort fee plus taxes. The cost for the conference is $25 for the first person and $15 for a partner.

All dialyzors, including NxStagers, other home hemodialyzors, PDers, those in-center and partners are invited. In addition, those who are pre CKD5 are also welcome. Also, all nephrologists, dialysis nurses, social workers and dieticians are encouraged to attend. There will be pertinent presentations for all. Presenters will be NxStage dialyzors, care partners, prominent nephrologists and others.

For more information, please go to the NxStageUsers Website.

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That is very cool, Rich. I’m planning to be there. :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=Rich Berkowitz;19655]NxStageUsers, the largest dialyzor and care partner support and advocacy organization using the NxStage System One, is proud to announce its 1st Annual NxStageUsers Meet Up and Conference. It will be held from October 10- 15, with a conference on the 11th and 12th at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Rooms have been reserved at a cost of $59.99 for single or double, plus a $7.95 resort fee plus taxes. The cost for the conference is $25 for the first person and $15 for a partner.

All dialyzors, including NxStagers, other home hemodialyzors, PDers, those in-center and partners are invited. In addition, those who are pre CKD5 are also welcome. Also, all nephrologists, dialysis nurses, social workers and dieticians are encouraged to attend. There will be pertinent presentations for all. Presenters will be NxStage dialyzors, care partners, prominent nephrologists and others.

For more information, please go to the NxStageUsers Website.[/QUOTE]

I will be attending the meet up and conference… Can’t wait to meet and talk with others and shre experiences. It will also be nice to meet and talk with some of the medical professionals as well. Now if I can only find someone who would like to loan their Hard Carrying Case for my NxStage Cycler so I do not have to purchase one!!
Im also hoping to pull the handle on Big Burtha so I can purchase my own dialysis unit on a private island!!!

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There’s only one month left to make reservations at the Tropicana. Here’s the conference program.

Conference Schedule
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Attire: Casual

Sunday

v 5:00pm – 7:00 pm —
v Informal Meet Up at the Pool




Monday

v 7:30 am
Continental Breakfast
v 8:30 am
Welcome — Rich Berkowitz, Founder of NxStageUsers
v 8;40 am
Welcome to Vegas and Congressional Outlook, Hon. Shelley Berkley (D – NV - 1)
v 9:10 am
Home Dialysis — How Far We’ve Come – Alan Hull, Medical Director, NxStage Medical
v 9:40 am
Where NxStage Is and Where It’s Going — Joe Turk, Sr. Vice President, Operations, NxStage Medical
v 10:10 am
Break
v 10:30 am
Informed Consent and Nocturnal Dialysis — Robert S. Lockridge, Jr., MD, UVA Lynchburg, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine
v 11:00 am
Freedom Study – TBA
v 11:30 am
How Dialysis Providers Can Improve Home Dialysis — Peter Laird, MD and Dialyzor

v 12;00pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch
v 1:00 pm
Good Dialysis Index (via Skype) – John Agar, A/Prof, MBBS FRCP(Lond) FRACP, Nephrologist and Unit Director, Barwon Health, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
v 1:30 pm
Final Bundling Rules and How Health Care Reform Impacts Dialysis — Linda Upchurch, Director of Public Policy, NxStage Medical
v 2:00 pm
Quality Indicators — Stuart Sprague, DO, Chief of Nephrology and Hypertension, NorthShore University Healthcare System, Evanston, IL – Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Professor of Medicine
v 2:30 pm
Public Policy Advocacy and NxStageUsers — Rich Berkowitz
v 3:00 pm
Being Your Own Best Advocate — Jim Smith, Regional Chair, NKC; Dialyzor of 3 ½ yrs
v 3:30 pm
Talking Up Home Dialysis to Prospective Dialyzors – Harvey Wells, Dialyzor
v 4:00 pm
Panel: Using NxStage to Bridge to Transplantation, David Rosenbloom and Cathy Straus, former Dialyzors and current Transplants
v 4:30 pm
Living It Up Traveling with NxStage – Dan Larrabee, Dialyzor

v 6:00pm – 8:00pm
NxStage Reception

Tuesday

v 7:30 am
Continental Breakfast
v 8:30 am
Being a Working Mother on Dialysis — Vanessa Evans, Dialyzor
v 9:00 am
Day in the Life of a Caregiver/Partner – Pat Colongione, Caregiver
v 9:30 am
Being the Mother of a Pediatric to Adulthood Dialyzor – Barbara Riddle, Care Partner

v 10:00 am
Beyond Traditional Advanced Directives: Reality and Humor – Denise Eilers, BSN, RN

v 10:30 am
Break

v 10:45 am
Short Daily vs. Nocturnal – John Moran, MB, VP Home Therapies, DaVita (TBA)
v 11:15 am
Redefining the terms associated with kidney disease – Rich Berkowitz
v 11:45 am
How to get docs to practice what they preach (Selling the NxStage therapy to other nephrologists dialysis nurses) – Dr. Robert Winnrow – MD, Minor and James Clinic, Seattle; Fellow University of Washington Nephrology,
v 12:15 am
Where We Need to Go — Brent Miller, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO.
v 12:45 am
Transforming Dialysis Care – Gary Peterson, Editor, RenalWeb

v .
Open mic at the end if possible
Wednesday

v 10am – 6pm
Excursion to Hoover Dam/ Lake Mead, Valley of the Fire or Red Rock Canyon
Thursday

v 10am – 6pm
Excursion to Hoover Dam/ Lake Mead, Valley of the Fire or Red Rock Canyon

v Conference concludes at 1:00 pm

Group rates will be available for Las Vegas Shows.

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That’s a dense schedule. By eliminating breaks Monday afternoon are you trying to highlight an advantage of dialyzing?

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Well, we urinators will have to take some breaks. :wink:

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Sorry – not intentional. It was just an oversight.