Vellore, Tamil Nadu in southern India in January. Warm and pleasant, rather like a good English summer but the locals say it is a bit too chilly! I am glad January was chosen for my ISN Educational Ambassador visit to the Christian Medical College (CMC) – before the monsoon season and the seriously hot...
Rates of Chronic Kidney Disease vary considerably across Europe, from 3% to 17% of the population, and are increasing. Demand for kidneys almost always exceeds possible supply, and each country manages transplants differently. A new survey, being presented at the European Association of Urology (EAU) congress in Munich, has shown significant differences in the...
Following the call for applications, the Hydration for Kidney Health (H4KH) Committee is happy to announce the names of those who have been selected for the New Investigator and Hydration and Kidney Health grants. The H4KH research initiative called for candidates from all disciplines relevant to kidney disease (clinical, health services and population health disciplines)...
Vincent Garvey has been awarded the Affordable Dialysis Prize, taking home US$100,000 for his innovative design. Garvey’s dialysis system can fit into a small suitcase and uses a standard solar panel to power a highly-efficient, miniature distiller capable of producing pure water from any source. Work on a prototype is now underway, with sponsorship opportunities...
According to the data released by The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week, the prevalence of obesity in the United States is at an all time high. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a metric used by organizations worldwide to define and classify severity of obesity. A recent study involving 3.38 million veterans with normal...
The Aristide Le Dantec hospital in Dakar hosted a dialysis workshop with the Senegal Society of Nephrology. Peritoneal and hemodialysis were the main focus. A Saving Young Lives (SYL) session presented the challenges and opportunities of setting up an AKI treatment program in Western Africa, while it emphasized the value of peritoneal dialysis (PD). SYL...
This year’s World Kidney Day (WKD) campaign emphasizes the importance of following kidney function and blood pressure in children and babies. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children is caused by congenital abnormalities and inherited disorders. Premature babies or small-for-date newborns have a relatively increased risk for developing CKD later in life. Those with a high-risk birth...
The Royal Liverpool University has been working together with the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza since 2013. Read 'The Guardian' report of Salim, a member of the Liverpool team during their last visit to Gaza in February: CLICK HERE to read the article in The Guardian. This program was made possible thanks to a growing ISN-TTS Sister...
On February 25, ISN staff at the Brussels headquarters had the pleasure of meeting former ISN President prof. Robert Atkins (2001-2003), and his wife, prof. Prudence Hill, also involved in kidney medicine being a pathologist at University of Melbourne. It was a great opportunity to remember the time when ISN, thanks to prof. Atkins’ foresight,...
In partnership with Cochrane Kidney and Transplant, ISN Education is pleased to present new Cochrane Library materials on Corticosteroids for nephrotic syndrome in children. This Cochrane review evaluates how corticosteroids treatment might be safely and most effectively used to treat steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome in children. Find out more, HERE. In addition to this publication on ISN Education, the full Cochcrane review...
The ISN-ANIO India Committee called for young nephrologists and diabetologists (both junior faculty and physicians in specialist training) working in India to submit research projects focused on diabetic kidney disease (DKD). Five applications have been received for the 2015 Diabetic Kidney Disease Research project. A Grants Committee of eminent nephrologists and diabetologists from India and...
Earlier this January, several ISN Continuing Medical Education courses took place across China in Shanghai, Jiaxing and Hangzhou. These meetings were made possible thanks to a valuable partnership between the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Ruijin Hospital Jiao Tong University, Chang Zheng Hospital, the Second Military Medical University and the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University. Lectures...
Some Caribbean states still have no nephrologists or nephrology services. Meeting and collaborating with colleagues in scientific research and enhancing training programs is why Everard Barton joined ISN. "In Jamaica, there are only nine adult and two pediatric nephrologists. To help more patients, the Caribbean Institute of Nephrology, through the Department of Medicine at the University...
In November 2015, during ASN Kidney Week, we organized our regular Affiliated Society meeting to gather all representatives so they could learn more about ISN and strengthen partnerships or create valuable training opportunities for nephrologists. Celebrating collective membership It is now over 10 years ago since the ISN Collective Membership was first launched. This type of...
Kumar Sharma shares his views on the theme of the ISN Forefronts symposium - the interaction of the metabolome and microbiome and its link to kidney disease. San Diego is the location of the first of two* ISN Forefronts Symposia in 2016. The city is the bed of much fundamental knowledge on metabolites that has led to many breakthroughs in...
The ISN Sister Center (SRC) Program has finalized the list of centers that will take part in the program following the recent call for applications. We would like to welcome them to the program and congratulate this year’s graduates. For a full list of the centers that will collaborate in 2016, CLICK HERE. This year, four...
This week ISN Education is proud to present a new research article published from the Global Outreach Postings (GOP) Program. Submitted by Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, the article, "Prevalence of patients receiving publicly-funded renal replacement therapy in Brazil: regional inequities and costs," will also be published in a next edition of The Open Urology &...
Francis Delmonico, Senior Advisor to the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group (DICG), has been appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. ISN would like to congratulate him on this great achievement. Through the DICG, Delmonico has shown longstanding dedication in combating global organ trafficking, protecting its victims who are sourced for organs and helping exploited...
Following the recent call for applications, 10 new centers will welcome an ISN Educational Ambassador to their institution in 2016. These ISN experts respond to the need to fill gaps in knowledge and technology in different parts of the developing world and optimize patient care by imparting focused training and supervision. These Ambassadors and centers will...
This blog post is provided by Anil Chandraker, Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ISN Educational Ambassador Vanessa Bijol. In the past two years The Renal Division and the Nephropathology Service at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts has trained two ISN Fellows from Thailand in transplant nephrology and two from Nigeria...
