Chronic Kidney Disease: What Can I Eat?

Join us for an exploration of chronic kidney disease (CKD) nutrition, in our upcoming webinar Chronic Kidney Disease: What Can I Eat? This insightful webinar features Roxanne Papineau, Nutritionist in nephrology, and president of the RNNQ and patient partners Jason Lumb and Jessica Papineau. This webinar will give you practical insights into:

• Managing a kidney-friendly diet
• Incorporate nutrition tips for maintaining kidney health
• Navigate kidney disease related dietary challenges
• Adjusting to dietary changes in everyday life

Don't miss this opportunity to empower yourself with knowledge and support your kidney health. At the end of the webinar, you will have the opportunity to submit your questions for the Q&A section.

The webinar will be held in French and English, with simultaneous translation in both languages.

Presenters

Roxanne Papineau, PDt

Roxanne is a Clinical Nutritionist in Nephrology, at the IUCPQ for 18 years. She recieved a bachelor's degree in nutrition from Université Laval in 2005 and she graduated with a diploma in functional nutrition and health from Université Laval.

She is clinical lecturer in the Bachelor of Clinical Nutrition and Doctor of Pharmacy programs at Université Laval, and President of the RNNQ (regroupement des nutritionnistes en néphrologie du Québec) since 2018 and sits on a few committees.

Roxanne has created several teaching tools for patients. She is author and co-author of 3 cookbooks on nephrology, including the most recent: Savoir Quoi manger - Santé rénale published by Modus in 2021, which is a bestseller and for which she received the André Beaulieu 2021 prize awarded by the Ordre des Diététiste-Nutritionniste du Québec for professional publication of the year 2021.

She is also the winner of the 2021 Gala reconnaissance de l'IUCPQ in the category: Improving the quality and safety of care and services

When she’s not busy with work Roxanne volunteers for the Kidney Foundation of Canada, and other organizations.

She is a mother of identical twins, triathlete and is passionate about cooking and permaculture.

Jessica Papineau

Jessica is a neonatal nurse and has been working at CHUS for several years. At the age of 12, she was diagnosed with Tuberous sclerosis also known as Bourneville's disease. Among her symptoms were polycystic kidneys and liver. She has had regular follow-ups, and it wasn’t until after her second pregnancy that Jessica started losing her kidney function.

In 2017, her kidney function was down to about 20%, so she started asking her family and friends to see if anyone was interested and compatible to be her kidney donor. Luckily, her mother turned out to be a match and they started the tests and the steps for a living donor transplant. Unfortunately, the pandemic delayed the process and by 2021, her kidneys were functioning at around 10% and became too enlarged to undergo a transplant.

Jessica has been on hemodialysis since January 2023 and is now awaiting her transplant surgery which has been pushed until early 2024. During all this time, Jessica has been lucky enough to have a sister like Roxanne Papineau who is a nutritionist specializing in kidney failure. Roxanne guided Jessica through the early stages of her condition. This enabled her to limit the symptoms of the disease and slow down the loss of kidney function.

Jason Lumb

Jason is a husband and father from Stoney Creek, Ontario. He experienced acute kidney failure in 2017 after a pulmonary embolism, and had a crash start on hemodialysis. After six months on hemodialysis, he switched to peritoneal dialysis. Following a renal diet and combining exercise with his dialysis treatments, Jason‘s kidney function improved from 3% to 29% during the one-year period that he was on dialysis. Jason now lives with 25% kidney function and, along with exercise, has worked with his doctor and dietitians for five years to delay any loss to his current kidney function. Jason is currently a Kidney Foundation Peer Support volunteer, and Peer Support group facilitator.

The Kidney Foundation would like to thank our sponsors for making the 2023 Kidney Foundation Webinar Series possible.