Pine Bluff businessman Bob Abbott attended the annual meeting for the American Association of Kidney Patients at Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 24-26.
Abbott is a charter member of the Arkansas Kidney Disease Commission and the National Kidney Foundation. He has been involved with kidney programs for 46 years, according to a news release.
“Abbott shared his experience that his family faced back in 1970, when his father, Floyd Abbott, was diagnosed with kidney failure. Abbott’s father would be the first patient of a then new home artificial kidney machine dialysis program that was to be operated by the family,” according to the release.
AAKP is the largest, oldest, independent kidney patient organization in America with more than 100,000 patient and caregiver members, the release said.