As part of our CME and CNE activity, the Integrated Dialysis Facilities (HK) Ltd organises a nephrology seminar for the doctors and renal nurses in Hong Kong. [see here for past renal seminar]

In the opening speech, Dr Ho Chung Ping said Palliative Renal Care is receiving increasing attention in Hong Kong.  Although the mainstay of treatment for patients with End-stage Renal failure is dialysis or transplantation, some patients may opt for palliative treatment.  Those patients may have fears about dialysis, their bodies may be too weak for dialysis or they do not wish to impose a burden on their family. For this reasons, doctors or nurses should have adequate training in palliative renal care.

The seminar was a one-day function and was well attended by doctors, renal nurses and staff in holistic care centre.

The Scientific Program

• Reasons for palliative renal medicine, legal aspects, communication with patients    

Dr Au Tak Cheung

(區德璋醫生), FRCP

• Reducing the progression of renal diseases  

Dr Jonathan CU Yung   (熊啟恩醫生), FHKAM

• Epidemiology of renal diseases and renal replacement therapies in HK           

Dr Siu Yui Pong, Gordon   (蕭睿邦醫生), FHKAM

• Medical treatment in palliative renal medicine 
   Dr Lo Kin Yee (盧建宜醫生),

 MSc, FHKAM

• Clinics in palliative medicine            Dr Ng Ngai Shing   (吳鼐成醫生), FRCP

Dr Ho Chung Ping

(何仲平醫生), FRCP