CME/CE

On-demand webcast with expert faculty presentation highlighting key studies in diabetes from the 2025 American Diabetes Association and European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meetings.

This WHAV 2025 session examines primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), a chronic autoimmune liver disease that predominantly affects women and often goes unrecognized. Tailored for clinicians who play a key role in identifying symptoms and initiating referrals, the session outlines diagnostic criteria—including AMA positivity and elevated ALP—and clarifies when specialist evaluation is warranted. Treatment strategies cover UDCA and newer agents like elafibranor and seladelpar for nonresponders. The discussion also addresses symptom burden, extrahepatic manifestations, and reproductive-stage considerations, including pregnancy.

This dynamic symposium will guide clinicians through a modern, patient-centered approach to endometriosis care. Faculty will explore how early diagnosis can improve physical and psychosocial outcomes, examine tools to advance equity and shared decision-making, and evaluate the latest evidence for GnRH antagonists as a nonsurgical treatment strategy. The session concludes with a patient perspective that illustrates how lived experience can inform more patient-centered, multidisciplinary care that incorporates medical treatment and shared decision-making.

Welcome to KDIGO Conversations in Nephrology: Burden and Pathophysiology of APOL1 Kidney Disease! Join our host Dr. Kirk Campbell (University of Pennsylvania) as he speaks with Dr. Bessie Young (University of Washington) about the discovery, impact, and future of APOL1 kidney disease.

This episode explores the significant burden of kidney disease driven by APOL1 gene variants in individuals with African ancestry. You’ll learn about the history of the gene's discovery and its association with kidney conditions like FSGS.

Dr. Young explains the complex pathophysiology of APOL1 and highlights the speed of research, new findings like a protective APOL1 variant, and ongoing clinical trials for novel treatments.

This series is provided by KDIGO and supported by Vertex.

Host: Kirk Campbell, University of Pennsylvania

Guests: Joshua Albright, Kidney Health Advocate & Titilayo Ilori, Boston University

Join our host Dr. Kirk Campbell (University of Pennsylvania) as he speaks with Dr. Titilayo Ilori (Boston University) and patient advocate Joshua Albright about APOL1 screening and early detection.

This episode addresses the low public awareness of APOL1-mediated kidney disease and the challenge of making genetic testing routinely and equitably available. The discussion emphasizes the importance of APOL1 testing for precision medicine and risk stratification. Find out why it’s so important to spread awareness, ensure equity in testing, and foster community engagement to advance knowledge and support those at risk.

This series is provided by KDIGO and supported by Vertex.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) management is being transformed by advances in diagnostics and the emergence of targeted therapies. In this program, leading international experts review challenges in early recognition, the evolving role of beta-blockers and traditional therapies, and the clinical impact of novel cardiac myosin inhibitors. Data from pivotal studies—including the landmark MAPLE-HCM trial—are examined in depth, with a focus on exercise capacity, gradient reduction, biomarkers, and patient outcomes. Faculty also share practical strategies for patient selection, monitoring, and translating trial evidence into daily cardiology practice.

Presented at the 21st Annual Women’s Health Annual Visit (WHAV 2025), this session reviews strategies for diagnosing and treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), with a focus on distinguishing IBS-C from IBS-D. Faculty explore the burden of disease, stigma, and the importance of a positive diagnostic strategy using Rome IV criteria, supported by history, physical examination, and selective testing. Treatment approaches include lifestyle changes, pharmacologic interventions, and brain-gut behavioral therapies.

This WHAV 2025 session addresses obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in women, highlighting how phenotype and risk factors shift across life stages. Experts discuss how varying phenotypes contribute to delayed diagnosis and review screening tools, referral strategies, evidence linking OSA to cardiometabolic risks in menopause and pregnancy and available treatment options. The program underscores the importance of a precision medicine approach informed by phenotype, hormonal status, and patient goals at each stage of a woman’s life.

The PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway is a crucial signaling network dysregulated in many cancers, promoting cell survival, growth, and proliferation, and often implicated in resistance to cancer therapies. Inhibition of this pathway by PI3K inhibitors disrupts a complex network of cellular processes that contribute to breast cancer, markedly reducing cell proliferation, promoting apoptosis, inhibiting angiogenesis, and ultimately preventing tumor formation and progression. In hormone receptor–positive (HR+), activating PIK3CA mutations occur in approximately 35% to 40% of patients and a variable prevalence across BC subtypes. Testing is thus crucial to ensure appropriate treatment selection. The development of PI3K-targeted agents may revolutionize the treatment landscape for HR+, HER2- metastatic breast cancer (mBC, and due to the recent approval of inavolisib, clinicians must be apprised of both the clinical evidence and best practices regarding the use of this agent. This activity has been designed to review the role of the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway in breast cancer, the importance of testing when making clinical decisions, and the role of PI3K-targeted therapies in HR+, HER- mBC.

The PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway is a crucial signaling network dysregulated in many cancers, promoting cell survival, growth, and proliferation, and often implicated in resistance to cancer therapies. Inhibition of this pathway by PI3K inhibitors disrupts a complex network of cellular processes that contribute to breast cancer, markedly reducing cell proliferation, promoting apoptosis, inhibiting angiogenesis, and ultimately preventing tumor formation and progression. In hormone receptor–positive (HR+), activating PIK3CA mutations occur in approximately 35% to 40% of patients and a variable prevalence across BC subtypes. Testing is thus crucial to ensure appropriate treatment selection. The development of PI3K-targeted agents may revolutionize the treatment landscape for HR+, HER2- metastatic breast cancer (mBC, and due to the recent approval of inavolisib, clinicians must be apprised of both the clinical evidence and best practices regarding the use of this agent. This activity has been designed to review the role of the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway in breast cancer, the importance of testing when making clinical decisions, and the role of PI3K-targeted therapies in HR+, HER- mBC.