Registered dietitian, Dani Renouf, joins host Alicia Murdoch to talk about her upcoming Kidney Foundation of Canada funded study, Describing Gut Microbiota in People with Chronic Kidney Disease, how she got involved in research and the role that patient partners play in her research.

This episode features a conversation with Dr. Caroline Stigant, a nephrologist and climate activist in Victoria, British Columbia. During this interview, Dr. Stigant discusses environmentally sustainable kidney care, the initiatives of the CSN and ISN, as well as some of the research that she is doing. Below are links to the websites and article mentioned.

ISN GREEN-K – https://www.theisn.org/initiatives/green-k-global-environmental-evolution-in-nephrology-and-kidney-care/#steering-committee

CSN SNAP – https://www.csnscn.ca/csn-committees/sustainable-nephrology-snap-committee/

Cascades Canada – https://cascadescanada.ca/

Our shared responsibility: the urgent necessity of global environmentally sustainable kidney care Kidney International 2023 Jul;104(1):12-15 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36642093/

Canadian coalition for green healthcare – https://greenhealthcare.ca/  

Healthcare without harm – https://noharm.org

NHS sustainability – https://www.england.nhs.uk/greenernhs/

Planetary healthcare alliance – https://www.planetaryhealthalliance.org/

This episode features Dr. Bhanu Prasad, nephrologist in Regina, Saskatchewan and professor of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. In this episode, Dr. Prasad discusses the recent publication in CJASN “Kidney Failure Risk Equation and Cost of Care in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease” and his research on loin pain hematuria syndrome (LPHS). Dr. Prasad is also a member of the CNTN Communication and Engagement Committee.

You can find him on Twitter @Bhanu2405