"The brain in pediatric chronic kidney disease: Using neuroscience to optimize care" with Lyndsay Harshman, MD MS (7.9.25)

The brain in pediatric chronic kidney disease: Using neuroscience to optimize care

Lyndsay Harshman, MD MS
Associate Professor, Medical Director of Pediatric Kidney Transplant, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Iowa

Objectives: 

1. Identify the most common cognitive deficit(s) reported among children with chronic kidney disease.
2. Explain how cognitive and developmental brain differences could guide how we care for pediatric CKD patients. 
3. Summarize how cognitive deficits could impact adherence to prescribed therapy – particularly within the pediatric kidney transplant population.