Credits Available: 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points available

Description: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is estimated to impact approximately 37 million individuals in the United States (U.S). Furthermore, about 786,000 persons are living with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and receive renal replacement therapy, either through maintenance dialysis or kidney transplantation. Hyperphosphatemia, characterized by phosphorus levels in the bloodstream exceeding the normal parameters of 2.5–4.5 mg/dL, constitutes a critical aspect of the mineral and bone disorder associated with CKD. Elevated levels of serum phosphorus facilitate vascular calcification, impair endothelial function, and may play a role in other newly identified mechanisms of cardiovascular toxicity specific to CKD. The treatment of hyperphosphatemia in patients with CKD requiring dialysis is complex and is ideally managed by a multidisciplinary team of care providers including nephrologists, advanced practice providers (APPs), nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals. Evidence suggests that multidisciplinary care models can slow the progression of CKD and improve mortality rates, but gaps remain in the availability and implementation of these models across different healthcare settings. These challenges include dietary management, optimization of dialysis, pharmacological interventions, patient education, addressing adherence concerns, and the need for comprehensive care models. This collaborative social learning platform establishes a network of providers who can support each other locally, as well as those from different communities, with the goal of learning and sharing best practices that will improve outcomes for patients with hyperphosphatemia.

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Target Professions: DO, MD, Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Dietitian, Pharmacist, MBBS
Target Specialties: Nephrology, Nutrition, Pharmacy, Internal Medicine, Nutrition Support, Clinical Pharmacy

Mohamed Oraby

national heart institute
MD, Physician

I am a cardiology registrar in National Heart Institute (NHI), Cairo, and interested in Heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, COPD, clinical cardiology, arrhythmias, interventional cardiology, nephrology, preventive medicine and obesity control. I'm an intervention cardiologist who had his training in NHI, Cairo, Egypt then finished my Complex intervention fellowship at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan ROC. I am a clinical researcher obtaining Clinical Scholars Research Training From Harvard Medical School.
I had contributed in several international conferences with complex and educational cases such as EURO-PCR (Paris 2019), ASPC (Taipei 2018), KSC annual meeting (Seoul 2018), GULF-PCR JIM (Dubai 2018), IMC (Jeddah 2019), C3 (USA 2019).
I finished scholarship in clinical research from Harvard medical school (hybrid course) in October 2021. I have published in Eurointervention, Circulation and other highly impactful scientific journals.