THE 11th INTERNATIONAL NAHARIYA UPDATE MEETING ON: EMERGENCY, CIRCULATORY, METABOLIC AND RENAL DISORDERS SEPTEMBER 12, 2005 In honor of Garabed Eknoyan

08:30-09:00 Registration and Refreshments

09:00-09:15 Welcoming remarks: Shaul M. Shasha -Director, Western Hospital, Nahariya, Faculty of Medicine –Technion, , Ido Perlman -Dean, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine -Technion, Haifa, Israel Yehoshua Weissgarten -President, The Israel Society of Nephrology and Hypertension, Sackler School of Medicine, TAU, Israel Batya Kristal -Conference Chair, Western Galilee Hospital, Nahariya, Faculty of Medicine –Technion, Haifa, Israel

09:15-09:30 Opening remarks: Nathan W. Levin - Tribute to Garabed Eknoyan Response: Garabed Eknoyan , Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Session I Chairpersons: August Heidland, Center for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation, Würzburg, Germany Karl Skorecki, Rambam Medical Center, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine -Technion, Haifa, Israel

09:30-10:00 Chris Baylis, University of Florida, Gainesville, FLA , USA NO deficiency in CKD

10:00-10:30 Michael S. Goligorsky, NY Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA Endothelial dysfunction and renal injury

10:30-11:00 Sudhir V. Shah, Univ. of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Central Ark. Veterans HC System, Little Rock, AR, USA Oxidants and iron in progressive renal failure

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break and Exhibition

Session II Chairpersons: Justin Silver, , Hebrew University, , Israel Uzi Gafter, Beilinson Medical Campus, , Sackler School of Medicine, TAU, Israel

11:30-12:00 Talia Weinstein, Sourasky Medical Center, , Sackler School of Medicine, TAU, Israel Oxidative stress and cardiovascular disease in hemodialysis: from evidence to proof of principle

12:00-12:30 Nathan W. Levin, Renal Research Institute, New York, NY, USA Dry Weight: What it is, how to get there and its clinical significance

12:30-13:00 Shaul G. Massry, Keck School of Medicine, University Southern California, CA, USA Vascular calcification in dialysis patients: role of hyperphosphatemia and acute phase proteins

13:00-13:30 Dganit Dinour, , Tel Hashomer, Israel Mitochondrial kidney diseases

13:30- 14:30 Lunch Break and Exhibition

Session III Chairpersons: Yoram Yagil, Campus, Ben-Gurion University, , Israel Jacques Bernheim, Sapir Medical Center, , K’far Saba, Sackler School of Medicine, TAU, Israel

14:30-15:00 Alexander Yussim, Beilinson Medical Campus, Petah Tikva, Sackler School of Medicine, TAU, Israel The biological basis of transplanting the sensitized recipient

15:00-15:30 Yair Reisner, Weizmann Institute of Science, , Israel Human and porcine embryonic kidney precursor tissue as a new source of transplantation

15:30-16:00 Shimon Efrat, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Cell replacement therapy of type 1 diabetes using tissue stem cells