The Columbia Renal Biopsy Course 2025

The course is designed to assist nephrologists and renal pathologists (including nephrology and renal pathology trainees) in diagnosing and managing the most common forms of medical renal disease, including diseases that target the glomerulus, tubules, interstitium, and blood vessels.
The activity will span three days and include lectures covering the following content areas: Nephrotic syndrome, Nephritic syndrome, Genetics, Tubulointerstitial, Vascular Disease, Transplant & Dysproteinemia. These lectures will be delivered live in front of an audience but also streamed simultaneously for virtual participants; all participants will have access to these lectures for 3 months after the conference.
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be better able to

Identify the role of complement in the pathophysiology of glomerular diseases and how novel complement-targeting therapies can fit into treatment patterns.
Enhance diagnostic suspicion for a genetically mediated form of glomerular disease and facilitate rapid referral for genetic testing.
Assess which patients would benefit from repeat biopsies in the management of their glomerular diseases.

 
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2025
Morning Sessions

Session Title
Speaker(s)

Registration; Continental Breakfast

Welcome and Introduction
Glen S. Markowitz, MD

Histophysiology of the Glomerulus
Vivette D. D’Agati, MD

Minimal Change Disease (MCD) and Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)
Agnes B. Fogo, MD

Refreshment Break

Current Therapy of MCD and FSGS
Gerald B. Appel, MD

Membranous Nephropathy (MN): Pathology
Glen S. Markowitz, MD

Membranous Nephropathy: New Antigens & New Insights
Sanjeev Sethi, MD, PhD

Afternoon Sessions

Session Title
Speaker(s)

Working Lunch: Renal Biopsy: Clinical Cases

Treatment and Immune Surveillance in MN
Laurence H. Beck, Jr., MD, PhD

Membranoproliferative GN & C3 Glomerulopathy: Pathology
Miroslav Sekulic, MD

Refreshment Break

C3 Glomerulopathy: Diagnosis and Management
Andrew S. Bomback, MD, MPH

Pathology of Diabetic Kidney Disease
Charles E. Alpers, MD

State of the Art Lecture: Glomerular Disease in Pregnancy
Michelle A. Hladunewich, MD, FRCP(C), MSc

Adjourn

THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2025
Morning Sessions

Session Title
Speaker(s)

Registration; Continental Breakfast

Crescentic Glomerulonephritis and ANCA & Anti-GBM Disease
J. Charles Jennette, MD

Treatment of Crescentic Glomerulonephritis
Ronald J. Falk, MD

Refreshment Break

Pathology of IgA Nephropathy and IgA Vasculitis
M. Barry Stokes, MD

Treatment of IgA Nephropathy and IgA Vasculitis
Pietro Canetta, MD

Infection Related Glomerulonephritis
Leal C. Herlitz, MD

Afternoon Sessions

Session Title
Speaker(s)

Working Lunch: Renal Biopsy: Clinical Cases

Dysproteinemic Renal Disease
Dominick Santoriello, MD

41ST ANNUAL CONRAD L. PIRANI LECTURE
Vivette D. D’Agati, MD

Recent Advances in Renal Amyloidosis, Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis, and Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Crystalline Nephropathies
Samih H. Nasr, MD

Refreshment Break

Pathology of Thrombotic Microangiopathy and Viral Glomerular Disease
M. Barry Stokes, MD

Treatment of Thrombotic Microangiopathy
Jai Radhakrishnan, MD, MS

Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects of Viral-mediated Glomerular Disease
Meghan E. Sise, MD, MS

Adjourn

FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2025
Morning Sessions

Session Title
Speaker(s)

Registration; Continental Breakfast

Hereditary Nephropathies
Agnes B. Fogo, MD

Integrating the Renal Biopsy with Genetic Testing
Dominick Santoriello, MD & Hila Milo Rasouly, PhD

State of the Art Lecture: Updates on APOL1
Simone Sanna-Cherchi, MD

Refreshment Break

Pathology of Lupus Nephritis
Vivette D. D’Agati, MD

Modern Therapies for Lupus Nephritis
Gerald B. Appel, MD

Afternoon Sessions

Session Title
Speaker(s)

Working Lunch: Renal Biopsy: Clinical Cases

Renal Transplant Pathology Part 1: Rejection
Robert B. Colvin, MD

Renal Transplant Pathology Part 2: Drug Toxicity, Infections, and Recurrent & De Novo Glomerular Disease
Ibrahim Batal, MD

Refreshment Break

Acute Interstitial Nephritis
Satoru Kudose, MD

Onconephrology: Clinical Aspects of Drug Toxicity
Meghan E. Sise, MD, MS

The Pathology of Nephrotoxicity
Glen S. Markowitz, MD

Adjourn