As part of its aim to increase the number of international, high-quality clinical trials in nephrology informing the optimal prevention and treatment of kidney disease and its complications for the benefit of patients, the ISN-ACT (Advancing Clinical Trials) Committee is developing an online clinical trials toolkit to provide the nephrology community with a central...
The ISN Online Curriculum on Intensive Care Nephrology launches today, November 4. Pathophysiological and clinical data, along with clinical case studies, will be presented in four sessions made available on the ISN Academy every two weeks between now and December 16. The course, directed by Eric Rondeau, Professor at APHP - Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France, and...
The ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas (GKHA) 2019 manuscript “Status of care for end stage kidney disease in countries and regions worldwide: international cross sectional survey” was published in The BMJ on October 31. The second edition of the GKHA reports on global kidney health across 160 countries representing 98% of the world’s population. The report focuses on care for end-stage kidney...
The ISN warmly congratulates its president, Professor Vivekanand Jha, for receiving the American Nephrologists of Indian Origin (ANIO) 2019 Award for Academic Excellence for his outstanding achievements in nephrology. Professor Jha is the Executive Director at The George Institute for Global Health in India, and a James Martin Fellow at The George Institute for Global...
ISN will have three booths at the ASN Kidney Week from November 5-10, 2019, in Washington, DC. There will be free access to KI (Kidney International) journals at the KI Booth (No. 2632). The ISN booth (No. 2634) will be presenting the Friends@WCN special registration offer, taking registrations for WCN’20, and renewing memberships. The...
The ISN Academy and the ISN Education Working Group is pleased to announce a new online educational initiative, KI on the Academy. The Academy will summarize one article per month, selected by the editors of the Kidney International, and present it as a video abstract. This concise video summary will be presented by the author...
The ISN congratulates 22 new 2019 Fellows after the second round of applications. The successful applicants come from all over the globe: Africa, Latin America, NIS and Russia, and South Asia. The ISN fellowship program http://fellowship.theisn.org/ provides tailor-made training from host institutions to health care professionals from low-resource countries. The Fellows aim to improve kidney health care...
ISN was well represented at the 15th Congress of AFRAN which was recently held in Mombasa. The ISN President, Professor Vivek Jha, as well as numerous other leaders and members of the ISN community were in attendance. This congress, jointly organized by the African Association of Nephrology (AFRAN) and the African Pediatric Nephrology Association (AFPNA),...
OBITUARY Nephrology community remembers Detlef Schlöndorff Detlef Schlöndorff, MD, died of pancreatic cancer in New York City on October 16, 2019, surrounded by his family. He was a prolific renal investigator for over five decades, training and mentoring over 50 fellows from around the globe, including some of the current world leaders in academic nephrology. He...
Angie Aguilar-Gonzalez, an ISN-H4KH new investigator, focused her research on an area in Guatemala with high incidences of renal disease of unknown cause. Given the high variability of fluid intake across the globe and the health consequences of these variations, she chose to measure hydration patterns and renal function markers in a group of children...
Fergus Caskey represented the Executive Committee at the 15th BANTAO Congress in Skopje, North Macedonia, that took place in September. Dr. Caskey presented Halima Resic with the ISN 2019 Pioneer Award in recognition of her research into the effects of frailty and depression on the nutritional status of hemodialysis patients. In addition to her roles...
Source: Kidney International Kitty J. Jager, Csaba Kovesdy, Robyn Langham, Mark Rosenberg, Vivekanand Jha, Carmine Zoccali Abstract On a world scale the total number of individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD), acute kidney injury (AKI), and those on renal replacement therapy (RRT) exceeds 850 million, a truly concerning figure that is twice the estimated number of people with...
As part of a partnership with the Indonesian Society of Nephrology (PERNEFRI) aiming to increase access to integrated kidney care programs in Indonesia, the ISN and PERNEFRI have launched an initiative towards achieving ‘Centers of Excellence’ in Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) across Indonesia’s 13 geographically-diverse districts. 13 key institutions (one in each district) have been...
ISN Ex-President David Harris and Oceania and South East Asia Regional Board Chair Adrian Liew traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia on June 27th, 2019 to co-facilitate a one-day stakeholder meeting together with the Indonesian Society of Nephrology (PERNEFRI) with the goal of developing a roadmap for integrated kidney care in Indonesia. The meeting included 54...
As part of the ISN’s capacity building partnership with the Indonesian Society of Nephrology (PERNEFRI), 2 doctors from Mohammad Hoesin General Hospital in Palembang, Indonesia (West Indoniesa) participated in a 2.5-day workshop held at Hospital Tuanku Ja’afar Seremban in Malaysia in June 2019. The Masterclass included a comprehensive training in standard operating procedure, management of complications...
ISN urges member states to truly uphold to their commitment to ‘leave no-one behind’. On NCDs, the declaration stresses mainly 5 disease groups without recognising that 55% of the global NCD burden arises from other NCDs, which often co-exist with and amplify the morbidity of the big 5. With 850.000.000 people affected worldwide,...
Dr. Rolando Claure Del Granado, Kidney Care Network (KCN) Project Lead in Bolivia, joined Dr. Raúl Plata, Regional Councilor of the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension (SLANH) at the Ministry of Health in La Paz on September 10th to meet with Dr. Adolfo Zarate, Head of the National Kidney Health Program and his...
As part of the Kidney Care Network project, a two-day acute kidney injury (AKI) training was held in Santarém at the NACE-NUMETROP regional hospital on May 13-14, 2019 with approximately 30 healthcare workers, among which nurses, doctors, internal medicine residents and medical/nurse graduate students from 4 health care centers in the Amazonian state of...
As part of the Kidney Care Network (KCN) project, mini acute kidney injury (AKI) trainings ran by ISN reverse fellow Martyn Fredlund took place across rural hospitals in the Northeast region of South Africa throughout June and July 2019. Healthcare workers, among which nurses, doctors, internal medicine residents and medical/nurse graduate students across 10...
Given the ISN’s core mission of advancing worldwide kidney health, it is essential that it has a presence and voice at those key events that are shape global health policy. Few organizations are as influential as the United Nations. From September 17–24, 2019, the UN will hold its General Assembly in New York. Here,...
