Adding more meetings to the meeting

Kidney Week is approaching. After a two year hiatus we are going to meet in person again in less than a month. I am very excited. NephJC and the NSMC will have a great presence and it should be fun.

You can take a peak at the line up here: #NephJC is going to be busy at #KidneyWk. Join us!

But I think ASN and the Kidney Week planning committee could be doing more to increase engagement. To make the event more fun.

I took a crack at it in this tweetorial

Modest proposal for @ASNKidney #KidneyWk.

Sunday is the least attended day of the conference. It is a half day and most people leave that morning and miss the whole day.

Sunday’s Plenary session should begin at 9 not 8 to encourage people to go out and socialize Saturday night and to make room for…

7:30 AM Sunday have 5k run/walk. Do a different kind of social event. Raise money for a local charity. Let nephrologists form teams. @VUMCKidney team. @arkanalabs @goKDIGO all could have shirts and shared a moment.

These national meetings need to move past charging hundreds of dollars for slideshows and be more about being with your people.

Originally tweeted by Joel M. Topf, MD FACP (@kidney_boy) on October 12, 2022.

There are 41 sessions on Thursday.

41 on Friday

30 on Saturday

and 8 on Sunday

Adjusting the schedule on Sunday truly is a model proposal. I would love to see ASN try some new ideas at Kidney Week.

Kidney Week 2019

Kidney Week is my favorite week of the year. It’s Kidney Christmas. Kidney Week is the one week when all of the connections I make over direct message, e-mail, and text via the black rectangle in my hand transform into living, breathing people. If you are going to Kidney week, I’d love to meet you in real life.

Here is a rough itinerary

Pre-Conference

Tuesday and Wednesday

Fundamentals of Renal Pathology – Anthony Chang, MD, FASN, Lynn D. Cornell, MD, Mark Haas, MD, PhD

Conference

Thursday:

1:00 to 1:30 pm I’ll be at the ASN Community Booth discussing Leveraging Social Media for Your Career in Nephrology.

6:30-7:30 pm Nephrology Secrets Book Signing at the Elsevier booth (1119) during the ASN Welcome Reception

Friday

10:30 am Join Cathy Quinlan and I on the NephJC Poster Tour. Meet at the Arkana booth (2515)

9:00 pm NephJC Tweet-up