Online Publication Date:
20 Sep 2021
Kidney Week Transitions to Fully Virtual

With increasing uncertainties around variants of the COVID-19 virus, Kidney Week 2021 will now be a fully virtual meeting. Kidney Week is the world’s largest and most dynamic meeting of kidney professionals, where participants share their work, learn about the latest advances in the field, develop new collaborations, and listen to provocative exchanges between leading experts.

With increasing uncertainties around variants of the COVID-19 virus, Kidney Week 2021 will now be a fully virtual meeting. Kidney Week is the world’s largest and most dynamic meeting of kidney professionals, where participants share their work, learn about the latest advances in the field, develop new collaborations, and listen to provocative exchanges between leading experts. In a “normal” in-person year, Kidney Week reaches approximately 13,000 participants with 5,000 abstract submissions. 

Due to COVID-19, Kidney Week 2020 was “reimagined” as a fully virtual event, under the leadership of the ASN President, Anupam Agarwal, MD, FASN, and Kidney Week Education Committee Co-Chairs, Linda F. Fried, MD, MPH, FASN, and Jon B. Klein, MD, PhD, FASN. 

Highlights included:

  • 10,300+ total registrants (42% international).
  • Five Early Programs with record-breaking registrations.
  • Nearly 2500 ePosters with 42,000+ views.
  • 81 virtual exhibits with 12,500+ views.
  • Up to 75 CME/CNE/CPE credits and MOC points for the Annual Meeting portion.

Co-chaired by Deidra C. Crews, MD, MS, FASN, and S. Ananth Karumanchi, MD, this year’s Kidney Week Education Committee and ASN staff are again planning for a fully virtual meeting.

Highlights include:

  • Six Early Programs , fully virtual with on-demand content.
  • Four exceptional plenaries, with a joint opening with the National Academy of Medicine featuring a COVID-19 panel.
  • 100+ educational sessions, live-streamed and on-demand. 
  • 2500+ posters.
  • Robust scientific exposition.
  • All meeting content available to all participants on the Kidney Week platform until Friday, January 7.

Please note that the early registration deadline is Wednesday, September 22, 2021. For more information about Kidney Week, including answers to your questions about shifting from a hybrid to a fully virtual meeting, please visit the Kidney Week 2021 FAQs.

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