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ISN Welcomes Two New Collective Societies

The Colombian Association of Nephrology and Arterial Hypertension (ASOCOLNEF) and the Paraguayan Society of Nephrology (SPN) have joined as ISN Collective Societies, further strengthening a mutual commitment to the advancement of nephrology in the Latin American region. Members of the SPN and ASOCOLNEF will enjoy the full benefits of ISN membership for a tailored fee. Collective Society status increases...

New ISN-Alder Hey Paediatric Nephrology Fellowship: Call for Participants

ISN is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, United Kingdom, supporting one long-term Fellowship per year to train in pediatric nephrology. The collaboration seeks to contribute to the development of renal care in low and middle-income countries. To start with, candidates will need to establish a training plan with...

Honoring the past, welcoming the future: ISN 60th anniversary

The celebratory activities to mark ISN’s 60th anniversary in 2020 have been launched. Throughout 2020, ISN will highlight past accomplishments, current projects, and future aspirations in its mission to advance kidney health worldwide. Some of the activities taking place in our 60th year are: a series of articles, “Milestones in Nephrology”, published in ISN journal Kidney International, highlighting 60 groundbreaking papers that...

Educational Ambassador lectures on the nutritional management of CKD in Lima

As part of the Educational Ambassadors Program (EAP), the ISN supported Jaime Uribarri, from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, to spend one week in May 2019 as ISN Educational Ambassador to train staff at the Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara in Lima, Peru. The aim of the training was to increase knowledge about the nutritional management...

Launch of ISN-Swiss-Cameroon Program

The International Society of Nephrology (ISN), the Swiss Society of Nephrology (SSN), and the Cameroon Society of Nephrology (CASONEPH), launched a new partnership earlier this year to establish a joint program of the ISN, Yaoundé 1 University, and Geneva University. Dr James Tataw and Professor Patrick Saudan, from Geneva University, reported a successful start to the...

ISN Scientific Writing Course held in India

The 2019 ISN Scientific Writing Course (SWC) was held from Sep 30 to Oct 2 in Delhi, India. This event, supported by the Indian Society of Nephrology, was delivered to nephrologists from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya, to enhance their scientific writing skills. Faculty at the three-day course included international and local experts in the...

Support the Detlef Schlöndorff Fellowship Fund

The ISN is pleased to announce that it will be naming an ISN Fellowship in honor of Detlef Schlöndorff, MD, who died in October 2019. Detlef Schlöndorff was a prolific renal investigator for over five decades and active in multiple leadership roles within the ISN, including as editor in chief of the Kidney International (KI)....

ISN ACADEMY HOSTS HYDRATION FOR HEALTH’S ONLINE COURSES

Water is a forgotten nutrient. The ISN Academy is hosting Hydration For Health’s online courses. Hydration for Health is an initiative by Danone Nutricia Research which aims at raising public awareness on healthy hydration and encourage sustainable healthy hydration habits by sharing scientific research, educational materials, and practical tools. The first course, “Hydration Basics”, focuses on basic knowledge of...

ISN’s 60th Anniversary Celebrations start with Kidney International

ISN is pleased to announce a monthly series, “Milestones in Nephrology”, from the editorial team of Kidney International (KI). Through the course of 2020, this series will highlight 60 historical papers of importance to the nephrology community from the early days of KI. Every month in 2020, five groundbreaking KI papers will be republished, discussed...

ISN Young Nephrologist Committee Member receives AJKD Editors’ Choice Award for research into missed hemodialysis sessions

Issa Al Salmi, from Oman, a member of the ISN Young Nephrologist Committee (YNC) as well as the Local Organizing Working group of the WCN 2020 in Abu Dhabi, was recently awarded the prestigious Editors' Choice award by the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) for his research into the international variation, predictors, and...

ISN Online Curriculum on Intensive Care Nephrology Continues

Session two of the ISN Online Curriculum on Intensive Care Nephrology is now available on the ISN Academy. In this session, the characteristic features of AKI due to acute tubular necrosis are reviewed. The learning objectives are: to understand the pathophysiology of tubular epithelial cell injury and repair as well as the main renal hemodynamic changes...

ISN at Kidney Week 2019

Meaghan Lunney, from the University of Alberta, Canada, presenting the abstract on ISN’s Global Kidney Health Atlas 2019, “Current Status of ESKD Care in World Countries and Regions,” during the morning session on November 9 at Kidney Week 2019. Thanks to all those who visited the ISN booth in Washington, as well as all the...

ISN Academy Live Streams the 17TH International Congress of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation

All sessions of the 17th International Congress of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, held in collaboration with the International Society of Nephrology and Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, taking place in Tabiz, Iran, will be streamed live at the ISN Academy over the three days of the Congress from November 19-22, 2019. If you are unable to...

ISN Young Nephrologist Committee Member receives AJKD Editors’ Choice Award for research into missed hemodialysis sessions

Issa Al Salmi, from Oman, a member of the ISN Young Nephrologist Committee (YNC) as well as the Local Organizing Working group of the WCN 2020 in Abu Dhabi, was recently awarded the prestigious Editors' Choice award by the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) for his research into the international variation, predictors, and...

ISN Online Curriculum on Intensive Care Nephrology Continues

Session two of the ISN Online Curriculum on Intensive Care Nephrology is now available on the ISN Academy. In this session, the characteristic features of AKI due to acute tubular necrosis are reviewed. The learning objectives are: to understand the pathophysiology of tubular epithelial cell injury and repair as well as the main renal hemodynamic changes...

ISN at Kidney Week 2019

Meaghan Lunney, from the University of Alberta, Canada, presenting the abstract on ISN’s Global Kidney Health Atlas 2019, “Current Status of ESKD Care in World Countries and Regions,” during the morning session on November 9 at Kidney Week 2019. Thanks to all those who visited the ISN booth in Washington, as well as all the ISN...

ISN Academy Live Streams the 17TH International Congress of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation

All sessions of the 17th International Congress of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, held in collaboration with the International Society of Nephrology and Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, taking place in Tabiz, Iran, will be streamed live at the ISN Academy over the three days of the Congress from November 19-22, 2019. If you are unable to...

Four monetary awards available to ISN members for training opportunities in renal pathology

The ISN Renal Pathology Working Group seeks applications from nephropathologists from low and low-to-middle resource countries (as defined by the World Bank) for travel bursaries in 2020. Four awards of up to a maximum value of $1500 per person will be awarded to finance either: a mini-sabbatical to provide short term in-depth study of renal pathology by immersion in an established...