"Kidney Patient Consumer Policy Roundtable"

"Kidney Patient Consumer Policy Roundtable: The Critical Need to Overcome Government Determinants of Health"
This event will highlight kidney health issues including the critical need for kidney disease screening, accelerating the innovation for next generation patient-centered medicine, and more intelligent and common-sense alignments of policy, law, regulation, and payment to achieve America's consensus priorities in kidney care.
Moderators:
Edward V. Hickey, III, USMC
President, American Association of Kidney Patients
Chair, AAKP Veterans Health Initiative
Former U.S. Congressional Senior Staff Member
Chronic Kidney Disease Patient
Paul T. Conway
Chair of Policy and Global Affairs, American Association of Kidney Patients
Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Labor
Former Dialysis Patient
26-Year Kidney Transplant Patient
Panelists:
Susan E. Quaggin, MD, FASN
Past President, American Society of Nephrologist (ASN)
Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine
Chief of Nephrology/Hypertension and Director, Feinberg Cardiovascular and Renal Research Institute, Northwestern University
Alicia Hennie
Vice President, External Affairs
United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS)
Peggy Tighe
Principal
Pyles Sutter & Verville PC
Strategic Advisor, Government Relations/Legislation
American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS)
Chris Bowlin
Executive Director, Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs
CorMedix, Inc
Laura A. Williams, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer
Ardelyx, Inc.
Kenneth Newell, MD
Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplantation and Program Director, Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship
Emory University School of Medicine
Committee Member, Transplant Therapeutics Consortium (TTC)
2024 AAKP Medal of Excellence Award Recipient
Kevin Fowler
Founder and CEO
The Voice of the Patient, Inc.
AAKP Ambassador
Pre-Emptive Kidney Transplant Recipient
Paul L. Kimmel, MD, MACP, FRCP, FASN
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
George Washington University
2019 AAKP National Public Service Award Honoree
Steven Potter, MD, FACS
Transplant Surgeon
MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute
Professor of Surgery and Urology, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Co-Chair, Legislative and Regulatory Committee, American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS)
Chair, CMMI Living Donor Demonstration Project, ASTS
2024 AAKP Medal of Excellence Award Recipient
As the oldest and largest, independent kidney patient organization in the U.S. - AAKP is dedicated to improving the lives and long-term outcomes of kidney patients through education, advocacy, patient engagement, and the fostering of patient communities. AAKP fights for early disease detection and the appropriate diagnosis of rare/genetic conditions; increased kidney transplantation and pre-emptive transplantation; full patient choice of either in-center or home dialysis; protection of the patient/physician relationship; promotion of research and innovation including artificial implantable and wearable kidneys; and the elimination of barriers for patient access to available treatment options. Learn more at www.aakp.org.