Past, Present & Future of Kidney Replacement Therapy

It started in Kampen - June 24th, 2025 in Kampen, the Netherlands

  8:45 Registration

  9:30 Welcome: Derk Meulman (MD), Chairman Willem Kolff Foundation

  9:35 Opening remarks: Tom Oostrom, Director Dutch Kidney Foundation

PAST:

  9:40 It happened in 1945: First patient surviving acute renal failure by hemodialysis
Joop Offerman (MD, PhD), Zwolle, the Netherlands

  10:00 Videos of 4 patient associations (Poland, UK, Canada, USA) & "Patients & Nurses" innovation call
Patrick van Dorst & Nancy Colobong Smith

  10:20 The first hemodialysis in the USA: 1947 and beyond
Prof. Jonathan Himmelfarb (MD, PhD), Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, USA

  10:45 Invention of the shunt: Permanent vascular access for chronic hemodialysis
Prof. Buddy Ratner (PhD), Washington University, Seattle, USA

  11:10 Coffee break

PRESENT:

  11:30 Vascular access: Present and future
Prof. Joris Rotmans (PhD), LUMC Leiden & President Vascular Access Society

  11:55 Miniaturization by dialysate regeneration
Christian Blüchel (PhD), NextKidney Netherlands, Singapore office

  12:20 Portable hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis machines
Karin Gerritsen (MD, PhD), UMC Utrecht & PI NXTGEN "artificial organs"

  12:45 Wearable peritoneal dialysis device (Malaysian innovation model)
Prof. Azrul Azlan Hamzah (PhD), IMEN & Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia

  13:10 Lunch

  14:00 Award ceremony Willem Kolff prize
Derk Meulman (MD) & Sander de Rouwe, Mayor of Kampen

  14:25 Applying lessons from Kolff and Scribner
Steve Ash (MD), Ash Access Technologies, Lafayette, Indiana, USA

  14:50 Bridge to future developments
Fokko Wieringa (PhD), IMEC Eindhoven & UMC Utrecht

FUTURE:

  15:10 Portable & wearable hemodialysis towards implantable solutions
Prof. Shuvo Roy (PhD), UCSF, San Francisco, USA

  15:35 Tea break

  16:00 NXTGEN Hightech & KIDNEW projects towards implantable hemodialysis
Fokko Wieringa (PhD), IMEC Eindhoven & EKHA WG3

  16:20 World-wide coopetition for an implantable artificial kidney
Murray Sheldon (MD), FDA-CDRH, Washington DC, USA

  16:45 Stimulating innovations in health care, Dutch approach to partnerships
Prof. dr. Nico L.U. van Meeteren, Health~Holland

  17:10 Closing remarks: Tom Oostrom, Director Dutch Kidney Foundation

  17:15 Drinks and visit to preserved office of Dr. Kolff (2 min walk)

  18:30 Group photo at old hospital "Engelenberg". Bus to Enschede leaves from there (ESAO attendees).