Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team at UK Kidney Week 2023

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The research team attended the annual UKKW conference at the ICC Wales in June. It was wonderful to reconnect with researchers from around the country and learn all about the new research in the field. It was also a fantastic opportunity to present our current research, here is a recap of all the work we presented over the week!

Courtney Lightfoot Talk on the relevance and impact of self management in kidney disease @lisa_ancliffe

Naeema patel presenting her talk about mental health and the covid-19 pandemic @tomwilks444

Roseanne billany presenting early results from the escert trial @HMLYOUNGPHYSIO

  • Courtney Lightfoot gave an invited talk on self-management in kidney disease, and excitingly presented a late-breaking abstract providing the first peek at the remarkable results from the SMILE-K study. Her presentation highlighted that our novel MyKidneys&Me digital health intervention is effective in increasing knowledge, skills and confidence to manage health in people living with kidney disease.

  • Naeema Patel delivered a presentation discussing the impact of COVID vaccination on the mental health status of individuals with CKD.

  • Rosey Billany presented the ESCERT kidney transplant exercise trial during the ‘what’s hot, what’s new in kidney transplantation’ session.

  • Matthew Graham-Brown was a featured speaker at the symposium titled "pioneers in practice: real-life patient experiences in anaemia of CKD management.”

  • Gurneet Sohansoha received the award for best poster for her poster focusing on the evaluation of recruitment for the virtual clinical trial of the digital health intervention SMILE-K.

  • Ella Ford, attending her first conference, presented her poster based on data from the DIME-CV study entitled ‘Healthcare system overload and economic recession: the worries of people with chronic kidney disease and their significant others during the COVID-19 pandemic: a sign of things to come in the UK?’

  • Naeema Patel showcased her poster on her PhD DELPHI study, identifying what people living with kidney disease and kidney healthcare professionals consider to be priority outcomes for the self-management of kidney disease.

We’d like to say thank you to the organising team at the UK Kidney Association for a fantastic event.