The ISN Council Elections are now open and we are looking forward to receiving your votes. As a member of the ISN, you have the chance to cast your vote and change the way the ISN Council will look in the next term. Between April 1st and May 15, 2013 you can vote online...
After much activity through the ISN Grant Programs in recent years, a Continuing Medical Education (CME) course was organized in Douala Cameroon by Gloria Ashuntantang, on behalf of the Cameroon Society of Nephrology. The meeting took place from November 23 to 25, 2012. Participants not only came from Cameroon but also from many other countries...
It is that time of year again, when ISN members are asked to cast their vote in the ISN Councilor Elections. As of April 1, 2013 until May 15, 2013 you can vote online through a personalized link. On April 1st 2013, every member will receive a personal link to the ballot tool by e-mail. The results...
The Global Outreach team will organize a GO poster session and workshop as well as a GO regional session at the upcoming World Congress of Nephrology. The GO Poster session will take place on Saturday June 1st from 3.15pm to 5.00pm in the Hong Kong Convention Center at the back of the exhibition hall, behind the GO Gallery....
ISN Grant Programs are happy to announce the launch of the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Center Program. Applications are now open for this new joint partnership between ISN and The Transplantation Society (TTS). Following the success of the ISN Global Outreach (GO) Sister Renal Center Program, this initiative encourages transplant centers to work together to increase...
With great regret, we announce the death of ISN member, Gary S. Hill. Read the full obituary published in the Baltimore Sun HERE. Dr. Hill pioneered a new technique for biopsies of tissue, in addition to developing a system for identifying lupus and how far the disease had progressed in a patient. Colleagues and family described...
The weather contrasts continue to challenge me as I decide what I need in the suitcase for the next trip. The UK Renal Association meeting on the wintry south coast of England, and then a CME in Upper Egypt, complete with two incredibly hot (for a Brit) days and a sandstorm! The UK Renal Association...
As part of this year's World Kidney Day celebrations, the ISN took part in a seminar on March 5, 2013 at the European Parliament in Brussels, organized by the European Kidney Health Alliance of which ISN is a member, and hosted by MEP Zofija Mazej Kukovic, new Chair of the MEP Group for Kidney...
The ISN is happy to announce that the next General Assembly meeting will take place during the World Congress of Nephrology on June 3, 2013 at the Hong Kong Convention Center (room S226 and 227). To download the agenda CLICK HERE. This year's meeting will welcome reports from ISN's President, Secretary General, and the Treasurer....
Being an ISN Educational Ambassador is a rewarding experience for ISN members and local doctors in developing countries. Participants feel they are sharing what they know while contributing to change in nephrology. "It was great to watch residents carry out ultrasounds on their own patients at the end of the course," says Charles O'Neill...
There is just a couple of weeks to go before the deadline for the ISN Global Outreach (GO) Research and Prevention (R&P) Program closes. If you want to apply for this program, send in your application before April 1st, 2013. The Research and Prevention Committee aims to promote research and educational programs in low-middle-income countries...
Last year saw the ISN organize the first Indian Pediatric Dialysis Training course in collaboration with the Medicity Hospital in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. Over two days, delegates from all over India joined the discussions. They were also accompanied by participants from Kuwait and the Royal Hospital in Oman The course included workshops on Acute Kidney...
An ISN Blog Entry penned by 2011-2013 ISN President John Feehally. Another of those temperature changes which I have got used to as ISN President. It was 3C° when I left home in England and 30 degrees warmer when I arrived in Accra, Ghana for the biennial AFRAN (African Association of Nephrology) Congress, February...
The ISN's Renal Pathology Committee is seeking applications for one mini-sabbatical for a nephropathologist from a developing country as defined by ISN to travel to one of two major nephropathology courses, in conjunction with an in-depth study for a short-term stay, up to two weeks. Applicants will also have the opportunity for an additional...
This is an ISN Blog entry written by 2011-2013 ISN President John Feehally. I recently returned from an inspiring trip to India. The complexity of medicine presented to me at the Madras Medical College was highly challenging and the fellows were outstanding. Articulate and knowledgeable and a credit to the Indian training systems. I enjoyed...
The following is an ISN Blog entry by Ravi Mehta written in 2013. Worldwide, acute kidney injury (AKI) is now well recognized to be associated with poor patient outcomes including mortality, development of chronic kidney disease and increased resource utilization. While this knowledge has generated considerable interest and led to significant advances in defining...
This January, the Madras Medical Mission in Chennai was the location for an ISN Continuing Medical Education (CME) course on nephropathology. Local consultant pathologist Anila Abraham Kurien spoke at the sessions alongside Patrick Donovan Walker, Director of NephroPath in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. She explains: "The CME covered the recent advances in nephropathology and was...
Few remember that the development of the first artificial kidney was not for treating kidney failure but rather to remove salicylate from the blood. Since then, extracorporeal treatments have focused more on treating organ failure than poisoning. However, morbidity and mortality related to poisoning remains incredibly high in developed and developing countries. For all these...
This March Oxford University Press will publish Landmark Papers in Nephrology. To find out more, CLICK HERE. This publication is co-edited by ISN Past President Stewart Cameron and ISN President John Feehally. Contributors include other past, present and future ISN leaders such as Adeera Levin, Nathan Levin, Eberhard Ritz and Fred Finkelstein. Landmarks in Nephrology points the reader to...
ISN is happy to announce the appointment of its new Treasurer. Tom Coffman has now accepted the role and will take over from current ISN Treasurer Vic Schuster. Many of you will already know Tom, who is Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA. It is a...