Help Advance Kidney Health Worldwide, Together – Apply for ISN Regional Training Center Recognition Today
ISN Regional Training Centers are institutions of excellence in low and middle-income countries within an ISN region that provide nephrology training to local doctors and health professionals from low and middle-income countries through ISN grants.
These centers serve as a hub for ISN kidney care initiatives within an ISN region and facilitate locally-relevant research and advocacy strategies.
Find out more and apply here. The deadline is January 8, 2021.
The Department of Nephrology at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, is one such center: since 2010, it has trained 15 African doctors in clinical nephrology, pediatric nephrology, and renal transplantation through ISN Educational Ambassadors and Fellowship granting programs.
Similarly, St. John’s Medical College in India, supporting institution in the Sister Renal Centers Program Ethiopia-India-Canada trio, helped establish a pediatric nephrology service at the emerging center, Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (TASH) in Ethiopia as an ISN Regional Training Center from 2017 to 2019.
