A Peek at
Upcoming Events
By
Kathi Niccum , Ed. D.
As the new Education Director for the DPC Education Center,
I bring years of experience both working with people who
have chronic kidney disease and developing educational
resources and programs. Even with my experience, though, I
am always interested in hearing from you to learn what topics
interest you and what type of information is still needed.
We also appreciate all of you who participated in the DPC
membership survey and shared your interests with us. Your
voice is important to us in all that we do!
The topics that we plan to cover this year include items that
you and various kidney patient committees have deemed
important to kidney patients. And, we’ll include additional
subjects that have been in the news. In addition to the
ongoing task of updating our web site (www.dpcedcenter.
org), we will produce The Kidney Citizen four times in 2017
(we welcome your articles), and we will offer free monthly
educational sessions, such as, webinars that you can access
through your computer, tablet or smartphone. Or, you can just
listen to the sessions on your phone.
Some of you may be wondering what a webinar is. It
is a combination of the two words – web and seminar.
It is a way that people can gain information through
a presentation, a class, or an information-gathering
session over the internet. It might include a presentation
with slides, a video, or some people might just listen to
the session over their phones. During a live webinar, you
can ask questions during the event.
We often have the educational sessions recorded so that
you can listen to them later if you are unable to attend the
session or if you want to listen to them again. You can access
past recorded webinars by visiting www.dpcedcenter.org/
education-seminars.
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