Pascal Amedro speaks at ERKNet webinar on exercise in children with kidney disease

On October 13, 2026, Prof. Pascal Amedro, founder of QUALIREHAB, was the featured speaker at the educational webinar "Physical Activity and Exercise in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Call for Intervention." The session was organized by the European Reference Network for Kidney Diseases (ERKNet), in collaboration with the European Society for Paediatric Nephrology (ESPN) and the European Renal Association (ERA), and was moderated by Prof. Jerome Harambat of the CHU de Bordeaux and the Université de Bordeaux.

The webinar followed the 58th ESPN Annual Meeting in Bordeaux, where Dr. Oscar Werner presented our research on cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD), conducted within the QUALIREHAB heart–kidney research program. That multicenter study, recently published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN), demonstrated substantial impairment in aerobic fitness from the early stages of pediatric CKD.

During the session, Prof. Amedro discussed these findings, the role of CPET in early functional assessment, and how evidence from hybrid, multidisciplinary cardiac rehabilitation may inform preventive rehabilitation strategies for children with CKD.

He also introduced QUALIREHAB-KIDNEY, our European–US pilot study evaluating the feasibility of adapting the QUALIREHAB model beyond pediatric cardiology.

The webinar took place from 4:00 to 5:00 PM CEST (10:00 to 11:00 AM EDT).