Let's talk about sex: Sexual healthcare for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients

Monday, April 28, 2025

7:00am – 8:30am HST

Location: Convention Center: 316 A

CE: 1.5

Selected By: ASPN
Co-sponsored By: SAHM

Chair(s)

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Celina Brunson, MD, MSCe

Assistant Professor
Children's National Hospital
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, United States
Ken Sutha, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Instructor
Stanford University School of Medicinr
Palo Alto, California, United States

Disclosure(s):

Celina Brunson, MD, MSCe: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Ken Sutha, MD, PhD: GE Healthcare (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds); Genentech (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator); Johnson and Johnson (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds)

Pediatric nephrology practitioners and nurses often serve as a source of primary care for patients with advanced Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD). Sexual healthcare in children and young adults with CKD and ESKD can pose unique challenges. In this session, speakers will address specific areas related to sexual healthcare for adolescents and young adults with CKD and ESKD, including discussion of contraception options, sexual health screening and gender-affirming care. The session will also discuss management considerations during pregnancy in dialysis and transplant patients and short and long term pregnancy outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the role of pediatric nephrologist in sexual health of CKD patients, including sexual health screening, safety, tolerability, and efficacy of contraception options
Explore the intersection of kidney disease and transgender care with special considerations of hormonal therapies
Learn the management issues and short-term and long-term outcomes of pregnancy in chronic kidney disease (including advanced CKD) patients

Presentations:

7:00am – 7:30am HST

Sexual Health, Contraception and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Screening in CKD
Speaker: Pia H. Francisco-Natanauan, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine
7:30am – 8:00am HST

Gender-affirming Medical Care for Patients with CKD
Speaker: Gina Sequeira, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Seattle Children's
8:00am – 8:30am HST

Pregnancy Outcomes in CKD and ESKD
Speaker: Heather D. Stewart, MD (she/her/hers) – Dwaine and Cynthia Willett Children’s Hospital of Savannah