World Kidney Day (WKD) 2015 raised awareness about the importance of kidney health in reducing the impact of kidney disease and its associated problems worldwide. Over 560 events were organized in more than 90 countries, including Algeria, New Caledonia, Chad and Ivory Coast. The most active nations were the UK, India, Brazil, Spain, Indonesia,...
ISN Educational Ambassador John Swinnen from Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia shared his expertise with doctors and nurses at Cho Ray Hospital (CRH) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This was a valuable onsite training that is set to change how local doctors and nurses will carry out their interventional procedures. Dr Swinnen explains how he...
A training course on peritoneal dialysis (PD) at the Noura Children’s center, Soba University Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan is helping doctors in Uganda set up their own PD program. The initiative was led by Saving Young Lives, a project that develops sustainable programs for treating acute kidney injury (AKI) in sub-Saharan Africa and South East...
The Bernd Tersteegen prize rewards basic and clinical research related to chronic renal insufficiency and advances in treating end-stage renal disease. The award was established following the death of Dr. Bernd Tersteegen in 1995. Tersteegen was the founder of the Verband Deutsche Nierenzentren (DN) e.V. and was dedicated to improving outpatient treatment modalities in end-stage...
A couple of weeks ago, when a mail inviting me to contribute to the ISN blog landed in my inbox, I instinctively hit the delete button. After all, is my life not already too busy? There are grant applications and manuscripts to write and review, PhD theses to pore over, classes to take, presentations...
The ISN Renal Disaster Relief Task Force (RDRTF) has released its latest update on supporting doctors in Nepal after the earthquake hit the region. According to ISN RDRTF Chair Wim Van Biesen, the situation has stabilized and there is a sufficiently functional dialysis service. Thanks to the Nepalese Society of Nephrology patients are being dispersed...
ISN has released a position statement on the epidemics of chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology (CKDu). CKDu has become a worldwide concern. ISN supports scientific and educational efforts to improve its outcome. ISN’s commitment to the care of people with kidney disease in all parts of the world is reflected in its concern about...
Members of our unit at Westmead Hospital, Sydney (Australia) have just returned from a four day-day visit to the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) in Karachi (India). SIUT was founded and is led by Adibul Hasan Rizvi (Adib) who received the 2015 South Asia ISN Pioneer Award. Adib is an icon in his...
ISN leaders Giuseppe Remuzzi, Guillermo Garcia Garcia and Motoko Yanagita have got involved in translating valuable educational material into Italian, Spanish and Japanese. This resource was released on World Kidney Day 2015 to show support for the overall theme for this year’s campaign: Kidney Health for All. All this information is available now at www.kidneyeducation.com. A...
According to reports from ISN RDRTF Chairman Wim Van Biesen, there are Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) casualties in three main hospitals in Pokhara, 150 kilometers Northwest of Kathmandu. There are nephrology services at the Western Regional Hospital (27 patients), Gandaki Medical College (30 patients) and the Manipal Teaching Hospital (15 patients). In these centres,...
Discovering more about cardio-renal pathophysiology and its links with immunopathology and inflammation will be the focus of discussions at the next ISN Forefronts Symposium, taking place in Shenzhen, China from October 22 to 25, 2015. Hypertension and vascular disease are important consequences of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and they are major contributors to high morbidity...
ISN is now offering free membership to trainees. A decision set to give even more opportunities for this new generation of nephrologists to grow. ISN knows the value of the younger generations of nephrologists who are part of the Society. As of now, trainees in nephrology, aged 37 and younger, can apply online for free...
At the end of March this year, following on from the World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) in Cape Town, we held an Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) symposium in Blantyre, Malawi. This was attended by 100 delegates (nurses, clinical officers and doctors) who work in hospitals and health centers around the Central and Southern region...
After a great World Kidney Day (WKD) on March 13, 2015, the WKD team would like to thank all participants for making this 10th edition really special. The results of this year’s campaign reveal how successful you all were in drumming up attention and raising awareness about kidney disease. More than 500 events were organized...
Many thanks to everybody who took part in ISN's biennial World Congress of Nephrology (WCN). It was a great pleasure to host this congress in the wonderful city of Cape Town, South Africa. We hope to see you in Mexico City from April 21 to 25, 2017 for WCN 2017. A dedicated post-event webpage has been...
Following the earthquake in Nepal, Wim Van Biesen, Chairman of the ISN Renal Disaster Relief Task Force (RDRTF), has sent out the first communication report. According to this report, local nephrologists are well prepared and are currently helping the chronic patients and managing the additional crush syndrome and acute kidney injury (AKI) patients. Some dialysis units have...
The 2015 World Congress of Nephrology definitively started with a bang as Drum Café opened the congress, building up excitement before the scientific contemplation began. It was with a warm and joyfull sense of humor that Archbishop Desmond Tutu welcomed participants to South Africa. “Is there a doctor in the house?,” he asked as he...
Between the talks and debates at the recent World Congress of Nephrology, the ISN awards were handed out to those who have made exceptional contributions to nephrology. All generations were nominated including younger nephrologists in the developing and developed world. Here is a roundup of the winners who were given their prizes at the congress...
The latest edition of the ISN Programs Yearbook 2014 is now available to read online, CLICK HERE. A recent ISN publication, the yearbook is a chance to find out more about the success of ISN’s outreach activities in the developing world. The ISN Programs offer a broad range of educational and training activities to the developing nephrology community....
The 10th Conference on Kidney Disease in Disadvantaged Populations was held from March 17 to 18, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa as a satellite symposium following the ISN World Congress of Nephrology 2015. As part of the symposium, a moderated panel discussion on research development for young investigators working in low-resource, global health...
