- About
- Membership
- What we do
- What we do placeholder
- Pediatric Nephrology Training
- IPNA programs
- Joint Projects
- Resources
- Resources
- History Project
- Education Materials
- For patients and parents
- News & Events
- Industry
GREAT CARE FOR LITTLE KIDNEYS. EVERYWHERE.
Nonnie Polderman
Nonnie Polderman is a dietitian at British Columbia Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, where she provides nutrition care for infants and children with kidney disease. In addition to her clinical work, she has authored research papers and textbook chapters on pediatric renal nutrition and contributed to guideline development and educational resources for healthcare professionals and families. Nonnie serves as co-chair of the Paediatric Renal Nutrition Taskforce.
Pearl Pugh
Pearl Pugh is clinical academic paediatric renal dietitian at Nottingham Children’s Hospital, UK. Awarded a doctorate in 2020, exploring an early dietary phosphate intervention in children with CKD to delay disease progression, her current research focus is a mixed-methods early CKD study, with an emphasis on co-design with young people to support improved knowledge and self-management. She is a member of the Paediatric Renal Nutrition Taskforce, is a lecturer at the University of Nottingham, UK, is a published author and has presented at national and international nephrology conferences.
Shally Sharma
Shally Sharma is a pediatric renal dietitian working at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. Her primary areas of interest include the nutritional management of children with acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, and renal tubular disorders. She is a core member of the Indian Pediatric Renal Nutrition Taskforce (PRiNT), has contributed to several publications in both national and international peer-reviewed journals, and is involved in clinical research aimed at improving nutritional care and outcomes in children with kidney diseases.
Vanessa Shaw
Vanessa Shaw is a founder member of the Paediatric Nutrition Taskforce and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London, UK. She was formerly Head of Dietetics at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, UK where she cared for children with kidney disease for 30 years. She was also an Honorary Associate Professor at Plymouth University, UK where she developed the MSc course in Paediatric Dietetics. She continues to publish and lecture on kidney disease in childhood.
What we do
To ensure children worldwide have the best possible opportunity to receive expert nutritional care by:
The Paediatric Renal Nutrition Taskforce has published clinical practice recommendations and practice points on the dietary management of kidney diseases in children.
The PRNT has produced a number of practical guides for healthcare professionals. These highlight the key aspects of dietary management detailed in the CPRs/CPPs and are presented as a handy guide for use in clinic or at the patient’s bedside, enabling you to better provide nutritional care.
The dietary management of calcium and phosphate in children with CKD stages 2-5 and on dialysis
The PRNT has also developed resources for children, young people and their families to help them better understand and follow dietary restrictions that may be necessary: phosphate, potassium and salt. There are diet booklets, food posters and swap sheets, brightly illustrated with much of the information tabulated for easy reading.
The original resources are in English and have been adapted and/or translated for practice in: Belgium and the Netherlands, Canada and USA, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Latin America, Italy, Lithuania, the Middle East, Poland and Spain.
The family guides are available for Healthcare Professionals to download on www.vitaflo-via.com. This is a website developed for healthcare professional education by Vitaflo (International) Ltd, a clinical nutrition company.
