Apex Pathshala

The Nephrology Board Review Course & Renal Pathology Workshop

About ApEx Pāthshālā

The Apex Nephrology Board Review Course has been an annual event organized by Apex Academia – the academic arm of the Apex Kidney Foundation, since 2010. It is a rigorous but fulfilling, 4 day event, stretching over 12 hours each day, where the finest global faculty, teach in an interactive format. From the first course conducted in 2010, this course was conducted uninterrupted, until the pandemic disrupted the continuum. The upcoming one in ’23 is the 11th edition. This course has had affiliations with reputed teaching institutions like Massachusetts General Hospital, Cedars Sinai Hospital and now Johns Hopkins Hospital. This course has been historically endorsed by virtually every major Nephrology societies including, The Indian Society of Nephrology, The International Society of Nephrology, The American Society of Transplantation, The Transplantation Society and The Renal Pathology Society.

ApEx Pāthshālā Brochure

ApEx Pāthshālā KāryakramaThe Schedule

Day 1 schedule

Thursday, April 27, 2023

11.00am

RENAL PATHOLOGY WORKSHOP

11.00am - 8.30pm

Speakers: Patrick Walker, Geetika Singh, Suceena Alexander, Juan Carlos Velez

This workshop is a practical approach to Native and Transplant kidney biopsy interpretation as well as understanding diagnostic terminologies from the perspective of clinical management. The sessions will be intensely interactive, engaging and focussed on generating a confident audience participation. The pathologists will teach and discuss real world kidney biopsy patterns and be assisted by clinicans, to discuss clinical management of some interesting and difficult clinical scenarios, all with active delegate participation. By the time you complete your participation in this session, you will not only familiarise yourself with pathology patterns and terminologies but will also be able to develop a level of skill at clinico pathological correlations, the ability and comfort to independently look and think through kidney biopsy slides and the confidence to question a renal pathology report.

1.30 pm

LUNCH

1.30 pm - 2.15pm

4.45pm

TEA/COFFEE BREAK

4.45pm - 5.00pm

8.30pm

DINNER

8.30pm - onwards

Day 2 schedule

Friday, April 28, 2023

7.30am

Transplant

7.30am - 12.00pm

Speakers: Jeremy Chapman, Sanjay Agarwal, Geetika Singh

This participative workshop, will serve to consolidate the understanding of several aspects of management of a transplant patient. They will be exposed to concepts such as; using HLA as a horoscope, infection & immunological surveillance in transplant, approaches to prolong graft survival and several other topics. The audience will work together and explore various case scenarios with the faculty. By the end of the session, they would develop the conviction to handle challenging transplant cases.

12.00pm

INAUGURATION

12.00pm - 12.15pm

12.15pm

A Nephrologists journey with a patient having type 2 DM

12.15pm - 1.15pm

Speakers: Manisha Sahay

1.15pm

LUNCH

1.15pm - 2.00pm

2.00pm

Urinalysis: A telescope to the nephron

2.00pm - 2.45pm

Speaker: Juan Carlos Velez

2.45pm

Dyslipidemia in Kidney Disease.

2.45pm - 3.30pm

Speaker: Ravi Thadhani

How to interpret a Lipid profile report. When and how to treat.

3.30pm

Tools at the Nephrologist's disposal for assessing bone disease in CKD.

3.30pm - 4.15pm

Speaker: Grahame Elder

4.15pm

TEA/COFFEE BREAK

4.15pm - 4.30pm

4.30pm

Salt, water, vinegar & soda: I

4.30pm - 7.30pm

Speakers: Joel Topf, Juan Carlos Velez

Humans have an internal ocean and when that sea deviates from its composition nephrologists are called on to shepherd this ocean back to homeostasis. Join Dr. Topf and the team, in channeling your inner Poseidon and learn modern tricks to mastering the internal ocean.

7.30pm

Tweetorial: Understanding nephrology, one tweet at a time.

7.30pm - 8.30pm

Speaker: Tony Breu

8.30pm

DINNER

8.30pm - onwards

Day 3 schedule

Saturday, April 29, 2023

7.30am

How good can a Nephrologist be, in treating Diabetes? How, when and what drug to choose!

7.30am - 8.15am

Speaker: Manisha Sahay

8.15am

Nephrology education in the era of alternate reality

8.15am - 9.00am

Speaker: Swapnil Hiremath

9.00am

How can we control the BP of our CKD patients better?

9.00am - 10.00am

Speaker: Narayan Prasad

10.00am

TEA/COFFEE BREAK

10.00am - 10.15am

10.15am

AKI Unfiltered

10.15am - 1.15pm

Speakers: Chirag Parikh, Juan Carlos Velez, Tony Breu

By bringing together experts in the field, this session would empower the audience to review the state-of-art knowledge of AKI. Some of the themes that would be covered include, AKI in the setting of cirrhosis/heart failure/ARDS. This entire session would be founded on clinical case scenarios with active audience engagement.

1.15pm

LUNCH

1.15pm - 2.00pm

2.00pm

CKD-MBD. Making no bones about it!

2.00pm - 4.00pm

Speakers: Ravi Thadhani in conversation with Grahame Elder

This conversation between two bone experts would help the audience understand how to analyse layers of imagery and complex blood reports to understand what is happening within the bones of our patients with CKD and how to mitigate this. The discussions would involve case scenarios and the audience would be encouraged to actively participate in the proceedings.

4.00pm

TEA/COFFEE BREAK

4.00pm - 4.15pm

4.15pm

Don’t believe everything you read! Critical Appraisal in Medicine

4.15pm - 5.00pm

Speaker: Swapnil Hiremath

5.00pm

Salt, water, vinegar & soda: II

5.00pm - 7.30pm

Speakers: Joel Topf, Juan Carlos Velez

This high octane workshop will transform fluid-electrolyte-acid-base-disorders from being confusing, demanding and taxing into an exciting, stimulating, inspiring and elevating experience

7.30pm

Tweetorial: Understanding nephrology, one tweet at a time.

7.30pm - 8.30pm

Speaker: Tony Breu

8.30pm

DINNER

8.30pm - onwards

Day 4 schedule

Sunday, April 30, 2023

7.30am

PD. how to deal with real world challenges

7.30am - 9.30am

Speakers: Georgi Abraham, Rajasekara Chakravarthi

This session, conducted by two stalwarts, would be an immersive experience on some of the contentious issues in PD. The delegates would be engaging themselves on how to deal with real world challenges in this area.

9.30am

Townsquare

9.30am - 11.30am

Speakers: AK Bhalla, Sanjeev Gulati, Suceena Alexander, Swapnil Hiremath, Joel Topf

This session would cover contemporary issues in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation. Topics like, Permissive hypercreatininemia, the relevance of ‘incremental dialysis’ in India, navigating the devil and the deep sea with MRAs, throwing the kitchen sink for resistant Nephrotic syndrome, and many such topics will be debated by a bunch of dynamic panelists. The audience would have an opportunity to dive into these spirited discussions.

11.30am

Anticoagulation in kidney disease. Making a choice and making it right!

11.30am - 12.15pm

Speaker: MB Agarwal

Anticoagulation in kidney disease. Making a choice and making it right!

12.15pm

The ApEx Oration:

12.15pm - 1.00pm

Speaker: Chirag Parikh

Acute renal failure-Acute kidney Injury-Acute kidney repair-Acute kidney success. The direction Science is taking

1.00pm

LUNCH

1.00pm - onwards

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Gurur Brahma Gurur Vishnu Gurur Devo MaheshwarahaGuru Saakshaat Para Brahma Tasmai Sri Gurave NamahaOur Faculty

Swapnil Hiremath

Nephrologist &Asst Prof of MedicineUniversity of Ottawa, Canada

Suceena Alexander

Prof of Nephrology &Vice Principal, ResearchCMC Vellore, Tamil Nadu

Patrick Walker

Founder, Nephropathologist Arkana Laboratories, USA

Sanjeev Gulati

Director, Nephrology Fortis Flt. Lt. Rajan Dhall Hospital, New Delhi

Ravi Thadhani

Executive Vice President of Health affairs Emory University, USA

Rajasekara Chakravarthi

Clinical Director &HOD of Nephrology and TransplantationYashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad

Narayan Prasad

Prof & Head, Dept of NephrologySGPGI, Lucknow

Sanjay Agarwal

Prof & Head, Dept of NephrologyAIIMS, New Delhi

MB Agarwal

Prof & Head, Dept of Hematology Bombay Hospital, Mumbai

Manisha Sahay

Prof & Head, Dept of Nephrology Osmania General Hospital, Hyderabad

Juan Carlos Velez

Prof of Medicine Ochsner Clinical School, USA

Joel Topf

Asst Prof of Medicine William Beaumont School of Medicine, USA

Jeremy Chapman

Retd. Director, Renal Medicine Westmead Hospital, Sydney

Grahame Elder

Prof, Dept of Renal MedicineWestmead Hospital, SydneyOsteoporosis & Bone Biology DivisionGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia

Georgi Abraham

Senior Consultant MGM Healthcare, Chenna

Geetika Singh

Addl Prof,Dept of Renal and Transplant PathologyAIIMS, New Delhi

Chirag Parikh

Prof of Medicine &Director-Division of NephrologyJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Anil Kumar Bhalla

Director Dialysis Services,Senior Consultant & Chairman,Department of NephrologySir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi

Tony Breu

Asst Prof of Medicine Harvard Medical School, USA

Aditya Nayak

In-charge, Division of Nephrology &Asst Prof, Department of General MedicineMGM Medical College, Navi Mumbai

Abirami Krishnan

Consultant and HOD Nephrology,Deputy Medical AdministratorKauvery Hospital, Salem

UpahāraOn the menu....

Townsquare

This will be an interplay between the audience and the faculty which includes Suceena Alexander, Joel Topf, AK Bhalla, Swapnil Hiremath and Sanjeev Gulati, mediated by Abirami Krishnan and Aditya Nayak.

While conducting this session they would raise finer points in Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation and elicit viewpoints from the faculty, while simultaneously encouraging the audience to add to that discussion string or even initiate new ones. The collective wisdom of the group will lead to meaningful,

and entertaining discussions. The experience of this Townsquare, will only leave everyone enlightened.

Rendez-Vous

When giants interact, magic happens!

The complicated topic of CKD-MBD leaves us asking more questions than we have answers for. By asking pointed questions, eliciting specific answers, illustrating a situation with examples and guiding the discourse in a direction which satisfies ambiguities in our understanding of the subject, this interview promises to be a captivating experience.

Masterclass

Dive deep into the ocean of ‘Fluids, electrolytes & acid base balance’, where Joel Topf, along with Juan Carlos will make you smell, taste and feel the experience of handling these elements in a fun way.

You are guaranteed to fall in love with the subject and embark on a lifetime journey of handling these elements in your professional practice, with confidence.

Workshop

From the position of a clinician treating pathology reports, you will be able tore position yourself to the intersection of pathology and clinical nephrology, able to interpret kidney biopsies better, questioning the diagnoses made by your renal pathologists and treat your patients with confidence.

You will experience the performance of Renal pathologists, Shree Sharma and Geetika Singh who will tango with Clinical nephrologists, Suceena Alexander and Juan Carlos, enriching your understanding of renal pathology and its application to patientcare.

You will be left wanting for more.

Teaching Points

On a variety of engaging topics by Manisha Sahay, Narayan Prasad, Chirag Parikh and MB Agarwal, Succinctly and effectively peeling off layers of confusion and misunderstanding, and expound the topic in theory and practice.

Tweetorials

From the master ‘Tweetorialist’ himself, Tony Breu will conduct two of these sessions covering two hitherto un-tweeted teaching points in Nephrology.

Bootcamp

In special interest areas of Transplantation by Sanjay Agarwal & Jeremy Chapman, AKI by Chirag Parikh, Juan Carlos & Tony Breu, and Peritoneal dialysis by Georgi Abraham & Rajashekhar Chakravarty.

Get ready to seek, to question, to demand and to dismiss explanations, answers and theories, in this healthy engagement with distinguished experts.

Oration

Delivered by Chirag Parikh, will chart the evolution of AKI as a concept and look into the crystal ball to predict how we would be managing, in the future, this most common of renal problems in practice.

PuraskāraThe award

Embedded seamlessly into the course would be a competition for Fellows. The top two scorers would get an opportunity to spend 2 weeks at the Department of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, in an all expenses covered trip.

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PratikriyāFeedback over the past 13 years

Dr. Roy Debajyoti MD,DM,FRCP Consultant-Renal Medicine CGH, Singapore

I must congratulate you on a fantastic choice of topics. Your faculty is also very impressive.

Keep up the great work.

Dr. Mahesh Bennikal

I am first time attending apex and i was very much happy after 40hrs for using effectively time for gaining knowledge. Everything was planned well and executed very well on time, i could see all faces of delegates after 40hrs glowing and halo around their heads.

Thank you very much and grateful to AKF for enlightening us and in future i will not miss single Apex course academia.

Dr. Krishna Patil IPGMER, Kolkata

I would like to congratulate you for the real success of this program( i.e an exclusive focus on academic scientific discussion). A knowledge seeker should have the eagerness to hear, desire to voluntarily and happily undergo austerity, So he should not be bothered about any personal inconvenience. There was no scope to point out any deficiency in that aspect.

I personally feel that ambience and venue should be comfortable enough to keep the audience focused for long time on the lectures, in meetings such as this.

Dr. Baldev Raj

Congrats to your team for organizing so thoughtful, clinically rich experienced conference. I will love to come back again and again.

Dr. Shradda Goswami

I have attended last two Apex and my experience was wonderful. It is so well planned and executed. All topics r well chosen so as to maintain the interest through out the course.

Pei Loo Singapore

Thank you for your patience in answering various questions from me when i first applied. I appreciated you helped to arrange my hotel stay and to pick me up from the airport. I wasn’t sure what to expect when i first applied.
However, very soon, i knew it was a right choice. The hotel was comfortable and spacious. I was reassured of the safety and the security at the conference location. It is also very near the airport. I benefited from the experience of various international speakers and Indian doctors. The lectures were enlightening. The questions asked were stimulating to the mind and i enjoyed participating.

The local food is special and is something i would not find in Singapore. It is the first time i heard the national anthem of India and got to know India from the people whom I spoke to. I made a lot of friends from India, China and Africa. Hopefully i would see them again in other conferences.

All in all, it is a rewarding and memorable experience.

Dr. Gayatri Pegu

Thanks for your mail, hope you are in good health.

Apex 2018 was really excellent as expected. It was an academic feast and and left us wanting more. I would definitely like to attend the next APEX course.

Dr. Ramapriya

Thank you sir for arranging the program. We are in first year dnb residency from Hyderabad, and attended the program first time. We gained a lot of insight into nephrology by these lectures. The speakers were all great and we thank them for their efforts in including the vast syllabus in a short time. Keeping the quiz program in between was good to keep us focused. Also thank you for providing us the pdf and video of lectures, which is very useful for us for future references. We look forward to next year presentations. One suggestion, we request to include few more discussion on general, basics of the topics such as pathophysiology for purpose of revision on the syllabus.

It was a great experience and we look forward to next year lectures.

Vel Arvind Interventional Transplant Nephrologist

Let me congratulate the ApEx team for having completed its 10th year.

Ralph Marston quotes “excellence is not a skill it is an attitude”. Take a one Idea, makeup that one Idea in your life- think of it, dream of it , live on that Idea- said by Swami Vivekananda . ApEx is a path & an epitome of a new paradigm in the realm of teaching. The punctuality is a Masterpiece. Strength & growth come only through continuous effort and struggle said by Napoleon Hill. All the talent in the world won’t take you anywhere without one’s team. Your team is a strong parapet, their hospitality is exemplary. You are creating an excellence and trying to hammer even the cold iron with daunting effort through your innovation. Sir I am sure , you and the team will carve a niche and pave a way to others to emulate in the years to come. The overwhelming key of ApEx’s success is speakers. They shot cannons and their volley of back to back lectures were adorable.

Mr. Prakash Shirodkar, course coordinator needs a special mention. Consistency and communication is really everything to call a man a gentleman. His commitment is evident and he tries to outsmart the previous one with his heart, mind and soul into ApEx.

Over all it is a pleasing experience and I leave each time with indelible memories of ApEx and Hyatt ‘s elegance. God must bestow you and your team with His abundant blessings.

Prof. Kamel Kamel is the master of master in Elemental physiology . A man to be remembered for his poise and professorial intelligence. I bow and scrape and salute him.

ApEx gives everyone the breath of fresh air in Nephrology. Bye. Going back with rejuvenated mood.