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Coming Soon: Kidney International to Publish International Consensus Definitions of Clinical Trial Outcomes for Kidney Failure

Kidney International will shortly publish the International Consensus Definitions of Clinical Trial Outcomes for Kidney Failure: 2020, developed from the 1st International Consensus Meeting on Defining Kidney Failure in Clinical Trials hosted by the ISN in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in early 2020. This is the first attempt by the international nephrology community to identify reproducible,...

August 14, 2020ResearchRead more...
Nominate the next ISN President-Elect & Regional Board Deputy Chairs/Councillors (all 10 ISN regions)

Nominate the next ISN President-Elect & Regional Board Deputy Chairs/Councillors (all 10 ISN regions)

Help shape the future of ISN: Nominate a potential candidate for the positions of 2021-23: President-Elect, and Regional Board Deputy Chairs/Councillors; 1 vacancy in each of the 10 ISN regions As an ISN member, you can help advance kidney care worldwide by nominating candidates for ISN leadership positions. The ISN is committed to the principles of diversity and inclusion....

August 10, 2020Society AffairsRead more...

New ISN Data Collection Initiative in Collaboration with Cambridge University for Kidney Patients with COVID-19

The ISN invites members to register patients affected by COVID on the new global COVID registry. The ISN collaborated with the University of Cambridge to develop CORONATION, the Coronavirus multinational observational registry, a data entry portal accessible to nephrologists worldwide to collect anonymous data on individual people with kidney disease and the COVID-19 infection. The initiative was led...

August 10, 2020NewsRead more...

Vascular Access Training for Nurses: Follow-up Educational Ambassadors Program Visit in Kenya

Stefaan Claus, RN Nephrology Division, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium Member of the ISN Kidney Health Professionals Working Group In October 2019, the ISN organized a Continuing Nurse Education (CNE) program at the Kenyatta University Hospital Nairobi, Kenya. One year earlier, in 2018, Professor Marie Richards, along with the local nurses in the renal unit and the heads...

August 10, 2020GrantsRead more...

ISN Sessions at APCN2020: Join Colleagues In-person or Online

The ISN and Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology (APSN) have sustained a successful collaboration over the last decade, working together to advance kidney care in the Asia-Pacific region. The ISN is pleased to share with members that the APSN’s 18th Asian Pacific Congress of Nephrology (APCN) will take place from 2-4 October 2020 at the Hong...

July 20, 2020GrantsRead more...

Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Further Reflections from Young ISN Members from Around the World

Young ISN members from Bangladesh, Ghana, and Brazil reflect on their experiences on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read reflections from other young ISN members here. Find resources relating to the COVID-19 infection here. Reflections from Dhaka Tania Mahbub, Consultant Nephrologist, ISN Fellow, United Hospital Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh Since it is a novel disease, the modus operandi of COVID-19 management has...

July 20, 2020NewsRead more...

Global Trials

Every month the ISN-ACT Team lists interesting new randomized controlled trials from around the world. Highlight: Early ACE-inhibition is safe in pediatric Alport’s Syndrome and may be effective See the latest trials here

July 20, 2020ResearchRead more...

Attend the ISN 2021 Frontiers Meeting

The ISN, in collaboration with the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, will hold the ISN 2021 Frontiers Meeting on ‘Complement-related kidney diseases: classification, genetics, and treatment’  from July 1-3, in Bergamo, Italy. This specialist meeting will focus on the two prototypical complement-mediated kidney diseases: atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), and C3 Glomerulopathies/Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis (C3G/MPGN),...

July 20, 2020EventsRead more...

Visit the ISNeducation Social Media Team Website Page

How does the ISN meet the challenge of presenting the latest complex ideas in easy-to-understand nuggets of information? Discover the @ISNeducation Social Media Team and the ISN WCN Social Media Team. ISN WCN Social Media Team Over the past decade, Social Media (SoMe) platforms have become increasingly popular to disseminate information from medical conferences. Twitter has become...

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ISN Pioneer Award for the Africa region to Prof. Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of nephrology

ISN CME Program Supports Two Speakers at the Nigerian Association of Nephrology Annual Conference and Presents the 2019 Pioneer Award

Through its Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program, the ISN was pleased to contribute to the 32nd Scientific Conference and General Meeting, held by the Nigerian Association of Nephrology in February 2020, in Ibadan, Nigeria. The ISN supported two speakers to lecture at the event: Rasheed Balogun, Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia Health...

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ISN-ACT article on Patient Involvement in Clinical Trials in Nephrology Features in KI

ISN members may access the ISN-ACT (advancing clinical trials) Patient Engagement Working Group’s article, “International Perspectives on Patient Involvement in Clinical Trials in Nephrology,” published in KI on 9 July 2020. The article highlights the important need to improve patient involvement in clinical trials to promote high-quality research in nephrology. It describes also the current challenges...

July 13, 2020Society AffairsRead more...

Episode 4 of the ISN Global Kidney Care Podcast on “SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Patients with Kidney Diseases”

In Episode 4 of the ISN Global Kidney Care Podcast (GKCP) series, the hosts converse with Hernando Trujillo and Angel Sevillano (Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid, Spain) authors of the Kidney International Reports article, “SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Hospitalized Patients With Kidney Disease.” The discussion considers the findings in the article and explores the professional and personal struggles...

July 6, 2020EducationRead more...
Join ISN WCN'21 - 15-18 April 2021

Join the Global Kidney Care Network at the ISN World Congress of Nephrology 2021 (WCN’21)

Stay connected in uncertain times. Hosted by the Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN) and la Société Québécoise de Néphrologie (SQN), WCN’21 remains scheduled from April 15-18, 2021 in Montreal, Canada The far-reaching consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to impact the way we share knowledge. The ISN is adjusting to this reality and is closely monitoring developments and following...

July 6, 2020EventsRead more...

Free Access to Seminars in Nephrology issue on Nephrology and Social Media

Due to its timeliness, Seminars in Nephrology has made the current issue, Nephrology and Social Media, fully available to the public. This issue focuses on the way medical professionals (#medtwitter) use Twitter and analyzes Twitter's role as a new tool for learning, teaching, networking, professional development, mentorship, sponsorship, and advocacy within medicine. The edition examines the principles of adult...

July 6, 2020EducationRead more...

Mpilo Hospital, Zimbabwe, Re-introduces Kidney Biopsy During ISN Educational Ambassador Visit

ISN Educational Ambassador, Nitin Kolhe, consultant nephrologist at the University of Derby and Burton (UHDB) NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom, spent a week at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe as part of the ISN Educational Ambassadors Program (EAP) in March 2020, before COVID-19 restrictions were in place. UHDB nurses Sister Carol Rhodes and Sister...

July 3, 2020NewsRead more...

The ISN-ACT Committee Releases Statement to Encourage the Inclusion of Kidney Patients in Research Activities.

The International Society of Nephrology urges all investigators and industry partners to include people with kidney diseases in research activities related to COVID-19. The ISN-ACT (Advancing Clinical Trials) Committee has released a statement on the urgent need to include patients with kidney diseases in clinical trials related to COVID-19. Despite preliminary studies demonstrating the increased risk...

July 3, 2020ResearchRead more...

ISN Teams up with DOPPS to Survey the Impact of COVID-19 on Dialysis Patients

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to disproportionately impact people living with kidney disease. It is, therefore, more important than ever to monitor the care being delivered to patients with kidney diseases and to use data to advocate for those at risk of adverse outcomes. Recognizing this, the ISN has launched several data collection initiatives over the past few...

July 3, 2020Advocacy, DOPPSRead more...

Milestones in Nephrology

Founding papers on current nephrology: from acute kidney injury to diabetic kidney disease As part of ISN’s 60th-anniversary, Kidney International’s “Milestones in Nephrology” series highlights five significant contributions to acute kidney injury, diabetic kidney disease, and cell biology: Glomerular hemodynamics in experimental diabetes mellitus (Hostetter TH, Troy JL, Brenner BM, 1981) Effect of intensive therapy on the development...

July 3, 2020Society AffairsRead more...

ASN/ERA-EDTA/ISN Joint Working Group’s Call to Action with Paper on Ethical Issues in Nephrology

Ethical challenges in nephrology: a call for action by the ASN/ERA-EDTA/ISN Joint Working Group on Ethical Issues in Nephrology, has been published in Nature Reviews Nephrology. The paper identifies ten broad areas of ethical concern as priority challenges that require collaborative action to highlight the need for ethical analysis of issues within kidney care and to...

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