Acute Kidney Injury Risk Classification and Phenotyping, with Dr Javier Neyra

Dr. Javier Neyra graduated from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Medical School in Lima, Peru (MD degree), and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit, Michigan) and in Nephrology and Clinical Research (Master of Science in Clinical Sciences) at UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, Texas). After serving on the Faculty as Director of Critical Care Nephrology at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Dr. Neyra joins UAB as Associate Professor and the David G. Warnock Endowed Professor. Dr. Neyra is Co-Director of the Critical Care Nephrology program at UAB, Associate Director of the UAB Nephrology Research & Training Center, and is Co-Director of the Clinical and Development Cores of the UAB-UCSD O'Brien Center for Acute Kidney Injury Research. His areas of clinical and research expertise include critical care nephrology, acute kidney injury, renal replacement therapies, big data analyses and digital health applications.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss aspects of AKI care that could be improved with AKI risk-classification/sub-phenotyping
Recognize relevance and applications of AKI risk-classification in different clinical settings
Review key concepts of AKI sub-phenotyping for prognostic and predictive enrichment.