Kidney Health Professionals Working Group | Sister Renal Centers Committee | ISN Advancing Clinical Trials (ACT) Committee KIDNEY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WORKING GROUP Outgoing Chair Paul Bennett (Australia) 2018-2020 “Nephrology nurses and allied health professionals are the largest professional nephrology group, and the development of the ISN Kidney Health Professionals Working Group has been an important ISN initiative recognizing this group’s vital...
oin an informational webinar presented by ISN President, Vivek Jha on the ELP program on May 20: Webinar May 20 at 5 pm CEST Register here. Find out more about the ISN Emerging Leaders Program and apply here. The application session is open until June 15, 2020. The ISN welcomes early-career professionals interested in shaping the direction of kidney health to work alongside a network of international...
Delegates attend a teaching session at the 1st Primer on Pediatric Renal Transplant and Immunology Workshop As part of the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers and the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Programs, the ISN supported the 1st Primer on Pediatric Renal Transplant and Immunology Workshop alongside the International Society of Pediatric Nephrology (IPNA). The workshop was held from March 5-7, 2020 at the Christian...
The call for nominations to receive ISN Awards in 2021 is open until August 27, 2020. All ISN Members can nominate candidates for: Alfred Newton Richards Award Roscoe R. Robinson Award Lillian Jean Kaplan International Prize for Advancement in the Understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease Pioneer Awards Discover more on ISN Awards and the requirements for nominations HERE. Award winners will be recognized at The ISN...
The ISN-TTS STC Program was launched in 2013 as a joint initiative between the ISN and the Transplantation Society (TTS) to develop transplantation services in low and middle-income (LMIC) countries either by pairing an experienced center to help build on an existing low-level transplant program; or by assisting an established regional nephrology service to...
Nephrologists in Nepal take part in a training course as part of the ISN Kidney Care Network Program in collaboration with APSN The ISN and the Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology (APSN) have sustained a successful collaboration over the last decade working together to advance nephrology in the Asia-Pacific region, notably through the ISN Fellowship, Sister Renal Centers (SRC), Clinical...
At the World Congress of Nephrology 2017 in Mexico, ISN Fellows from around the world created a WhatsApp group to share experience and progress. Dr. Mohammed Elrggal, from the Nephrology Department at the Kidney and Urology Center in Alexandria, Egypt, initiated a collaborative research project exploring AKI practice patterns in all the Fellows’ home countries. The study...
The 12th Annual International Conference on Nephrology & Hypertension was organized by the Caribbean Institute of Nephrology, in Kingston, Jamaica, in January 2020. The conference, themed “Targeting Together Caribbean Kidney Issues,” was coordinated by Dr. Everard Barton from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Through its Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program, the ISN supported two speakers...
Henriette Tyse Nygård reports on Anemia in Dialysis Patients in Zanzibar as the first in a series of Nurses’ blog posts in recognition of 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. Anemia in dialysis patients in Zanzibar Henriette Tyse Nygård Dialysis nurse, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway; Dialysis nurse/teacher, MMH, Zanzibar; Student, Masters of Public Health, UIT, Norway;...
At a meeting held in December 2019 in Delhi, India, between the ISN President and Executive Director, and the Indian Society of Nephrology Governing Body, ISN and the Indian SN agreed to extend and formalize their existing partnership to include collaboration on all ISN programs and activities, demonstrating their mutual commitment to the advancement...
ISN Kidney Health Professionals Working Group (KHP WG) members Rachel Walker and Paul Bennett submitted a paper that has been published as an editorial letter in the Renal Society of Australasia Journal 2020. The KHP WG is a comprehensive and complementary nursing and allied health professional group formed by ISN in 2017 to address the gap in the non-nephrologist...
The deadline for the next round of Fellowship applications is May 1, 2020. The ISN Fellowship Program offers nephrology training to physicians from low-resource countries and provides a valuable opportunity to grow professionally and to improve kidney healthcare in emerging countries by becoming established leaders in the field. A recent article outlines the significant results that are attainable through the...
The ISN is pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the Schrier Award, which recognizes the most deserving partnership from recently graduated ISN Sister Renal Centers (SRC) Program and ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers Program pairs. The ISN Sister Renal Centers Program chair and deputy chair, the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers Program co-chairs, and the ISN Programs chair...
SUPPORT A NEW FELLOWSHIP The ISN is pleased to announce a new Fellowship in honor of Dr. Ravindra Mehta, the Ravi Mehta AKI Fellowship. The fund has been set up in collaboration with Ravi Mehta’s friends and colleagues in recognition of his leadership and to honor his contribution to global health and education. The ISN invites you to make...
ISN’s two Sister Centers Programs (SRC and ISN-TTS STC) link emerging renal and transplant centers with centers of excellence for long-term partnerships. The educational guidance provided by the supporting center over a six-year period aims to help the emerging center become self-sufficient and offer improved patient care. In 2020, 13 new pairs (listed below) were approved by the ISN Sister...
As part of its vision to ensure equitable access to kidney health globally, the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) is proud to launch the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP). With the aim of building a global talent pool of future leaders, the ELP welcomes ISN members interested in shaping the direction of kidney health through professional...
The ISN congratulates 11 new Fellows approved by the ISN Fellowship Committee following the first round of applications for 2020. This year, Priyanka Subramani, from the Central and Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplantation Service in Australia, will undertake an ISN Reverse Fellowship at the Mbeya Zonal Referral Hospital in Tanzania under the supervision of Dr. Francis F. Fredrick. The...
In the early nineties, ISN leadership began discussions on active collaboration between established kidney care centers and emerging centers from low-resources areas. By 1996, 17 active partnerships were established and a further 16 were in a formative stage. These paired centers would become known as the Sister Renal Centers . Today, 63 partnerships are active within...
The ISN Clinical Research Program supports research and education programs in low-to-middle income countries, involving local nephrologists, health workers, and authorities. The Program helps implement research projects to detect and manage non-communicable chronic diseases such as CKD, AKI, hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The deadline for online submission of proposals is May 1, 2020. Proposals must be reviewed by...
Since 1985, the ISN Fellowship Program has supported over 800 fellows from 90 emerging countries. The program encourages professional fulfillment and supports equitable healthcare by establishing Fellows as valuable leaders in their home region qualified to share knowledge and experience. Many past ISN Fellows make use of other ISN Programs and become involved in ISN committees or supporting...
