As part of the Kidney Care Network (KCN) project, mini acute kidney injury (AKI) trainings ran by ISN reverse fellow Martyn Fredlund took place across rural hospitals in the Northeast region of South Africa throughout June and July 2019. Healthcare workers, among which nurses, doctors, internal medicine residents and medical/nurse graduate students across 10...
Given the ISN’s core mission of advancing worldwide kidney health, it is essential that it has a presence and voice at those key events that are shape global health policy. Few organizations are as influential as the United Nations. From September 17–24, 2019, the UN will hold its General Assembly in New York. Here,...
The ISN-KI Editorial Fellowship will be awarded annually by ISN in conjunction with Kidney International (KI) to two ISN members who are early-career researchers in nephrology, dialysis or kidney transplantation. The 2019-20 ISN-KI Editorial Fellowship winners are Dr. Anna Francis, a pediatric nephrologist at Queensland Children Hospital and post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Sydney,...
ISN President Vivekanand Jha and Executive Director Charu Malik will attend the upcoming 18th Latin American Congress on Nephrology and Hypertension organized by the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension and the Peruvian Society of Nephrology in Lima on September 12-15 2019. Prof Jha will present the ISN Pioneer Award for Latin America to Dr Edgar...
This second edition of the ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas (GKHA) 2019 focuses on improving understanding of the regional burden of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and the capacity for care delivery. The latest findings will help encourage relevant stakeholders across countries and regions to advocate for improved access to and quality of kidney care. The...
In June, ISN attended the 11th Hydration for Health (H4H) conference in Evian, France. ISN President Vivekanand Jha presented highlights on the Hydration for Kidney Health (H4KH) initiative, an ISN activity in partnership with Danone Nutricia Research, as well as on ISN’s global activities. Adeera Levin provided an overview of the results of the 2019...
The International Society of Nephrology is very concerned about the current state of negotiations on the Political Declaration for the first United Nations High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UN HLM on UHC). Kidney disease, which affects over 850.000 million people worldwide, is the 11th leading cause of death globally and is projected to become...
Kidney International (KI) is pleased to announce the publication of a study on hypertension, led by the ISN iNET-CKD (International Network of chronic kidney disease cohort studies). This study highlights considerable international variation in hypertension control and treatment in chronic kidney disease (CKD). The new study from the ISN iNET-CKD highlights substantial variation in the prevalence...
The editors of Kidney International (KI) would like to share a selection of articles from the August edition of the publication. Articles focus on a broad range of topics from renal pathology practice globally, the genomic landscape of CAKUT, identifying geospatial “hotspots” of glomerular diseases, the disease-specific incident glomerulonephritis displays geographic clustering in under-serviced rural areas of...
Secretary General Antonio Guterres United Nations, S-233 New York, NY 10027 Dear Secretary-General Guterres, On behalf of the members of the Global Coalition for Circulatory Health, we are writing to you because we are deeply concerned by a letter on the role of the tobacco industry in the United Nation’s (UN) 2030 Agenda that you received from the outgoing...
The Russian Dialysis Society, with support from the ISN Continuous Medical Education Program (CME), organized its 13th National Conference, in conjunction with the 18th North-West Nephrology Summer School. It was a chance for doctors as well as students from medical schools across Russia to gain much-needed training across different areas of nephrology. Over 300 delegates...
With support from the ISN Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program, the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital and the George Institute for Global Health in India organized a specific training course on interventional nephrology, specifically tailored to the needs of nephrologists in resource-poor settings. Some 77 participants from across four of the six geopolitical zones of...
In July 2019, the second series of clinical trials curated by the ISN Advancing Clinical Trials (ISN-ACT) team will get us thinking about nephrology research and encourage more discussion about transplant, glomerular diseases and pediatric nephrology: from the role of EPO post-transplant, tacrolimus dosing in Asian transplant recipients to the optimal duration of steroids...
PRESS RELEASE July 9, 2019 Kidney Patients are Neglected in Clinical Trials The exclusion of patients with kidney diseases from clinical trials remains an unsolved problem that hinders optimal care of these patients. Over 850 million people suffer from kidney diseases worldwide, a number which signifies epidemic proportions, yet these patients are still ignored by investigators and...
The second ISN Global Kidney Policy Forum publication is now available. Building on the first ISN Global Kidney Policy Forum, which took place in Mexico City in 2017, participants in the 2019 Forum in Melbourne addressed equitable access to kidney care, including the prevention, detection and management in Australia, New Zealand, and South East...
This month, the first series of clinical trials curated by the ISN-Advancing Clinical Trials (ISN-ACT) team will get us thinking about nephrology research and encourage more discussion about chronic kidney disease, dialysis and hypertension: from PD catheter exit site care, the effectiveness of Roxadustat, to the initial treatment of hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africans and...
As members of the @ISNeducation Social Media team, nephrologists from institutes worldwide have taken on a stronger presence on social media. They are sharing knowledge more widely and gaining access to a global nephrology community, expanding their network, and making a global name for themselves. It is a continuing challenge for nephrologists worldwide to present...
The ISN Academy is launching the ISN RenPath quick case series, an online educational program aimed at nephrologists and renal pathologists. From July 8, 2019, interact online with expert presenters and engage with other learners on a broad scope of cases relating to renal pathology. From cases of treated amyloid and progressive proteinuria to...
With support from an ISN-ANIO Program Scholar, the Kerala Network for Organ Sharing (KNOS) of India, in collaboration with Spain's Donation and Transplantation Institute (DTI) organized a course on Transplant Procurement Management (TPM). It helped physicians gain fundamental knowledge on TPM and develop their professional competences as specialists in the field of organ donation. This...
With support from the ISN Young Nephrologists Committee, ISN members recently took part in the 37th Vicenza course on acute kidney injury (AKI) and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). A valuable opportunity for members of the ISN community to make worthwhile contacts while learning more about issues affecting their patients. The ultimate goal for this...
