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...
ISN and the ISN Global Outreach 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). CLICK HERE for more details. Following the success of the ISN Sister Renal Center Program, this initiative encourages transplant centers to...
In order to investigate candidate hypotheses for chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu), the ISN has supported a multidisciplinary group of nephrologists, epidemiologists, and occupational health and environmental scientists to form a consortium (i3C) to identify a coherent approach to studying CKDu and to provide recommendations for studies focusing on investigating causes. The...