Medicine Grand Rounds: 2026 Collins Lectureship |"Updates on CKDu" Presented by Magdalena Madero, MD, Chief of Nephrology at the National Heart Institute in Mexico City.

Join us in person! Bruce Schroffel Auditorium, University of Colorado Hospital, Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion 2, First Floor Conference Room – Lunch Provided
or via Zoom.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the epidemiology, geographic hotspots, and proposed risk factors of CKDu, with an emphasis on affected populations in Mesoamerica and other emerging regions.

• Review current hypotheses regarding CKDu pathophysiology, including occupational heat stress, recurrent dehydration, environmental nephrotoxins, and gene–environment interactions, and how these mechanisms differ from traditional causes of CKD.

• Highlight novel findings that advance the understanding of CKDu, including recent clinical, biomarker, imaging, or histopathologic insights that refine disease phenotyping, improve early detection, or challenge existing paradigms of CKD progression.

Disclosure Statement: Dr. Madero reports a financial relationship as a advisor and consultant for Aztra Zeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, and CSL Behring. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated. All of the other planners, faculty, or individuals in control of content for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation & Designation Statement:

The University of Colorado School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Colorado School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. ​​​​​​​

ABIM MOC Statement: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 MOC point in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit information to ACGME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.