ISN is happy to announce the latest list of transplant centers that have been accepted into the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Center Program. These centers will take part in this program in 2016 following a call for applications in September 2015. The ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Center Program is a joint partnership set up between ISN and The...
This blog post is provided by Kirill Komissarov at the Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education in Minsk, Belarus. Fellows from the Charite Clinic University Clinic in Berlin, Germany spent a month with two fellows from the Minsk center thanks to an ISN Sister Renal Center partnership. Local medical professionals Aliaksandra Hashchuk is an intensivist and...
The 9th International Congress of the International Society for Hemodialysis (ISHD) was held from September 13 to 16, 2015 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia. 1456 delegates, comprising 989 delegates from the host country Malaysia and 467 participants from other countries attended the Congress. The Congress was endorsed by several international organizations including the...
This week, ISN Education is sharing its latest resources on the topic of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). The team have added two new video presentations from the AKI & CRRT Conference 2015 held in San Diego, California last February. This year’s chosen theme was Updates in ICU Medicine: Controversies, Challenges and Solutions. In addition to this...
Collaboration with the ISN Educational Ambassador Program has helped the Pro-Renal Foundation in Brazil develop its interventional nephrology services. Former Chairman of the ISN Interventional Nephrology Committee, who leads the initiative, Dr. Miguel Riella believes the program would not have grown to this extent without ISN’s valuable training support. ISN Educational Ambassador Dr. Donald Schon from...
Saraladevi Naicker and David Harris have now come to the end of their mandates as chairs of the ISN Educational Ambassador (EAP) and Fellowship Programs. We would like to thank them for their dedication and wish them all the best in their future endeavors. Vivek Jha and Allison Eddy will now replace them as chairs...
The ISN-ANIO India Committee is calling 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). The Committee is welcoming applications for: Clinical research projects directed at prevention and early treatment of DKD Successful projects should be pragmatic and relevant to...
It has now been over 10 years since the Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN) became a collective member of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN). One of CSN’s biggest achievements was its support in organizing the ISN World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) 2011 in Vancouver, gathering over 5,000 participants from some 110 countries. CSN members...
Prof. Shan-yan Lin from Hua-shan Hospital at Fu-dan University was granted an ISN Pioneer Award at the recent ISN North and East Asia Regional Workshop, held in conjunction with the Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of Nephrology (CSN) in Zhuhai, China. Aside from rewarding Prof. Shan-yan for his efforts in advancing nephrology across the...
ISN Education is excited to put forward two videos on pathology tissue handling produced by Surya Seshan and her Electron Microscopy laboratory team at Weill Cornell Medicine. The videos demonstrate the tissue triaging procedure for renal needle core biopsies that are delivered in both fresh and fixed/preserved states to the laboratory, and expands on the...
Nephrology training in a low-cost setting is more effective in understanding how to treat the poorest kidney patients in the world. ISN Fellow Sudakshina Ghosh from Tanzania trained at the Madras Medical Mission and got involved with India’s Tanker Foundation – an organization helping the country’s poorest kidney patients. Host mentor and Tanker Foundation Founder Georgi Abraham...
Klara Paudel’s dedication to nephrology is changing kidney patient care and research across Nepal. “In the developed world, you can rely on someone senior for guidance. Almost all specialists in emerging countries have to work on their own, relying on their own judgment and what they read in literature. It was similar for me. Born in...
Gina Nazareth, President of the Philippine Society of Nephrology recently met with ISN President Adeera Levin. The Philippine Society is actively working towards becoming an ISN Collective Member Society. Nazareth says: “This collaboration means a lot to middle income countries like ours. Rest assured that we are one with you in advancing equitable and ethical...
The most recent ISN Forefronts meeting in Shenzhen, China succeeded yet again to spark discussion about some of the most talked about issues in nephrology. Gathering the world’s experts and professionals from kidney-related fields. Hypertension and vascular disease are both causes and consequences of chronic kidney disease (CKD), connecting heart and kidney, and high morbidity...
Kidney transplant program now comes to fruition in Ethiopia, thanks to the dedication of the country’s nephrologists. In September, a team from the University of Michigan carried out kidney transplant operations at St-Pauls Hospital, Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) in Addis Ababa. They will visit every four to six weeks to help with future procedures. In...
November 30, 2015 is the deadline to apply for the Hydration for Kidney Health research initiative (H4KH). Candidates from all disciplines can apply for the New Investigator and the Hydration and Kidney Health grants. Randomized and cohort controlled as well as observational studies contain kidney function data and some hydration measures. This initiative supports the...
ISN is happy to announce the launch of ISN’s new Journal: Kidney International Reports (KI Reports). KI Reports is designed to be a sister journal of Kidney International published in open access format. KI Reports will publish a broad range of articles encompassing clinical and translation research. Jai Radhakrishnan, Founding Editor of Kidney International Reports,...
It is with great pleasure that I announce the launch of ISN’s new Journal: Kidney International Reports (KI Reports). KI Reports is designed to be a sister journal of Kidney International published in open access format. KI Reports will publish a broad range of articles encompassing clinical and translation research. Additionally we encourage the submission...
ISN announces a new publisher for Kidney International (KI) and an improved educational offering. As of January 2016, Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services will publish KI. “We are extremely pleased to be entering into this relationship with Elsevier,” says ISN Executive Director Luca Segantini. “Kidney International serves...
This year, Saving Young Lives (SYL) project representatives from Western Africa will meet in Dakar from December 5 to 7, 2015, during the first International course on dialysis in Western Africa. More than 250 attendees are expected to attend the first Dialysis conference, organized by the Senegalese Society of Nephrology. The course will tackle both...
