To empower and educate individuals affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD), transplantation and donation, the National Kidney Foundation's People Like Us is offering a series of monthly educational forums entitled Coffee House Conversations™ telephone series.

• June 16, 2010
  Rebroadcast: August 11, 2010
  Why Managing Blood Sugar Is So Important: What You Can Do and What Your Health Care Provider Can Do
   
• July 13, 2010
  What You Need to Know About Diabetes and Your Kidneys
   
• September 21, 2010
  Communicating With Your Healthcare Team

What you will learn...

• Why keeping blood sugar at the recommended target is so important
• Ways to control blood sugar (diet, healthy lifestyle, medicines)
• How your kidneys can be affected by diabetes
• Information about kidney disease—common risk factors you may not know about
• Recommendations from experts for when and how to get tested for kidney disease
• How to manage kidney disease when you have diabetes
• Common barriers to communicating with healthcare professionals
• Helpful ways to educate healthcare professionals about your risk for chronic kidney disease
• How to work with your healthcare team to achieve important lab targets
• "My Self Management Story" -- Hear personal experiences from people living with diabetes and chronic kidney disease
• And much, much more!

*Space is limited! Register now to hear featured panelists give presentations, and have the opportunity to ask them questions. Call 1-888-JOIN-NKF (888-564-6653) or complete the registration form located at www.kidney.org/coffeehousedm.

You can send questions about these calls by e-mailing NKF at coffeehouse@kidney.org. Also, you can send NKF your thoughts about the calls by taking a survey at www.kidney.org/coffeehouse. The NKF wants to hear from you and appreciates your input.

To review the newly added NKF content, please visit: www.esrdncc.org/index/NKF.

To register for a session, click here.