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August 27, 2024, 2:00pm – 3:00pm EDT

Burden and Management of Hyperkalemia in Kidney Disease Care

Kidney patients have an higher risk of hyperkalemia - leading to further health complications and increased costs for care. As a health care professional, understanding both the physical and financial burden of high potassium is crucial when providing comprehensive care.

Kidney patients have an higher risk of hyperkalemia - leading to further health complications and increased costs for care. As a health care professional, understanding both the physical and financial burden of high potassium is crucial when providing comprehensive care. In this webinar Dr. Arun Malhotra discusses why it is important to grasp the impact of high potassium on kidney patients, how health care professionals can use this knowledge to inform care and how providers can put current hyperkalemia guidelines into practice.

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Moderator and Speaker

Gates Colbert

Moderator: Gates Colbert, MD

Gates Colbert MD is a Nephrologist with Kidney and Hypertension Associates of Dallas.  He is also Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine with Texas A&M College of Medicine.  He is the Co-Program Director of the Nephrology Fellowship at Baylor University Medical Center and is the Renal Course Director for Texas A&M Medical School.

Arun V. Malhotra, MD

Speaker: Arun V. Malhotra, MD

Dr. Malhotra received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from the Armed Forces Medical College of India in 1990.  He completed his residency at King Edward Memorial Hospital, University of Bombay, India, from 1989 – 1992.  He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, from 1996 – 1999, where he earned the position of Chief Resident from 1998 – 1999.  He completed a fellowship in the Renal, Electrolyte, and Hypertension Division at the University of Pennsylvania from 1999 – 2001.  He currently has a private practice, Nephrology Associates, P.A. in Newark, Delaware.

Dr. Malhotra was the Delaware Academy of Medicine president from 2014 – 2016 and was awarded the 2013 Nurse Physician Partner at Christiana Care Health System.

Dr. Malhotra is an associate member of the American Society of Nephrology, a Board Member of the American Society of Nephrology, Delaware Chapter, and a member of the National Kidney Foundation, the American College of Physicians, Renal Physicians Association, and the Medical Society of Delaware