AHA24 Screening for Kidney Disease to Reduce CVD Risk: uACR and eGFR

4 Contributing Authors Bige Ozkan, MD, ScM Carolyn M. Reilly, PhD, RN, CNE, FAHA, FAAN Andrew M. South, MD, MS Telisa Spikes, PhD, RN Katherine R. Tuttle, MD, FASN, FACP, FNKF Relationship disclosures within the past 24 months: The American Heart Association (AHA) is committed to ensuring balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in its certified educational activities. All faculty, planners and contributors in a position to control the content for an AHA-sponsored activity are required to disclose to the activity audience any financial relationships regardless of the amount during the prior 24 months with (1) the manufacturer(s) of any ineligible company product(s) and/or interest(s) of ineligible companies regardless of relation to the content of the activity and (2) any ineligible company supporters of the activity. When an unlabeled use of a commercial product or an investigational use not yet approved for any purpose is discussed during an educational activity, the faculty must disclose that the product is not labeled for the use under discussion or that the product is still investigational. Bige Ozkan, MD, ScM, is an internal medicine resident in the Johns Hopkins Osler Medical Residency Program. She previously obtained a master’s degree in cardiovascular epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed postdoctoral research training at Johns Hopkins Division of Cardiology, funded by the American Heart Association’s Cardiometabolic Health Research Network. Her research focuses on exploring the links between various cardiometabolic risk factors, kidney disease and adverse cardiovascular outcomes, as well as leveraging both established and novel biomarkers to improve cardiovascular risk prediction. Disclosures: Employment: Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professional services and activities: Nothing to disclose Carolyn M. Reilly, PhD, RN, CNE, FAHA, FAAN, is an experienced critical care clinician, researcher and master teacher, bringing to Berry College core values of caring and creativity. It is through these lenses that she is leading the division of nursing to grow the program to meet the pressing need for excellent Professional Nurses. Disclosures: Employment: Berry College Professional services and activities: Nothing to disclose

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