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Sunday, February 27, 2011

WORLD KIDNEY DAY - MARCH 10, 2011
FREE CONFERENCE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Greetings Friends in Community Health,

I hope this email finds you well. I am writing on behalf of the Building Bridges to Optimum Health work group to invite you to the 5th annual World Kidney Day Community Conference, to be held on March 10th 2011 at the Loker Auditorium at the California Science Center 700 State Drive, Los Angeles Ca, 90037 Entrance at 39th Street & Figueroa Street.

This is a free conference which aims to share information about prevention and treatment of kidney disease with community members, patients and health care professionals, students and researchers. A continental breakfast and lunch will be served.

This year’s conference will include presentations on: “Risks and Management of Kidney Disease: What labs do you get, where do you go, what do you do?,” “A Holistic and Multidisciplinary Approach to Managing Stress Associated with Chronic Disease,” and “A question and answer panel discussion of patients living with different stages of kidney disease”

There will also be break out informational sessions on: “Prevention of Kidney Disease,” “Kidney Dialysis,” “Kidney Transplantation” and “Recent State and Federal Health Policy Changes”

We hope you can attend and bring anyone who may be interested, especially if they or a loved one has kidney disease or conditions that put them at risk for kidney disease like diabetes or hypertension.

Feel free to forward this email or distribute the attached flier and registration form and don’t forget to register yourselves either through the Healthy African American Families’ web-site 
http://www.haafii.org/ ,

by calling (323) 292-2002 Monday through Friday 9-5pm or faxing the attached sheet to (323) 292-2002.

Thank you all, for your help in this effort.

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