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Interventional nephrology training responds to the need for better vascular care globally

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The global growth of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients has resulted in an increasing number surviving on renal replacement therapy. Hemodialysis remains a predominant form of renal replacement therapy. Providing optimal dialysis vascular access care remains a challenging task. The birth of interventional nephrology represents a field dedicated to understanding and treating complex vascular access...

September 24, 2015Education, Events, News, Other AdvocacyRead more...

CME in Fiji raises CKD and AKI awareness

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A first ISN Continuing Medical Education course took place in Fiji’s capital Suva, from September 18 to 19, 2015, uniting the country’s medical community to talk about better kidney health. This meeting was made possible thanks to a developing ISN Sister Renal Center partnership with Australia. Dr Amrish Krishnan (Fiji) and Dr Angus Ritchie (Australia)...

September 23, 2015CME, Initiatives, NewsRead more...

CKD: has implications well beyond the risk of dialysis

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Kidney disease does affect 1:10 adults. It is defined as: “abnormalities of kidney structure and/or function present for greater than three months, with implications for health.” A recent New York Times article describes a debate between nephrologists whereby some assert that lower eGFR is not necessarily kidney disease, and that because most older individuals with impaired kidney...

September 17, 2015News, ResearchRead more...

Apply for the ISN Sister Transplant Center Program

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The next application deadline for the Sister Transplant Center Program is October 1st, 2015. All the information to apply is now online. Applications are now open for four new pairs to enter the Program. The Sister Transplant Center Program is a partnership between ISN and The Transplant Society (TTS) designed to help establish new kidney transplant centers...

September 14, 2015News, Sister Transplant CentersRead more...

SRC application session is now open

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The ISN Programs team is now accepting applications for the ISN Sister Renal Centers (SRC) Program. Deadline for applications is October 1, 2015. The SRC program helps improve how nephrology is practiced in emerging countries by linking renal centers or units in developing countries with established centers of excellence in the developed world. Any two renal...

September 14, 2015ISN's Impact, News, Sister Renal CentersRead more...

Join the ISN Regional Workshop in Russia on September 16, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] An ISN Regional Workshop will take place in St-Petersburg on September 16, 2015 at 4.30pm. It will be held in conjunction with Renal Week and the Russian Dialysis Society Congress. An opportunity not to be missed as ISN Regional Workshops are now the go-to meeting to meet participants and leaders involved in the ISN Programs. ISN...

September 12, 2015ISN's Impact, News, Regional ActivitiesRead more...

Apply for ISN and Danone Nutricia Research Hydration for Kidney Health initiative

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Danone Nutricia Research and ISN have created the Hydration for Kidney Health Research (H4KH) Initiative to stimulate the interest of both established and new researchers to explore the role of hydration in kidney health. Applications are open until November 30, 2015. The H4KH initiative will expand the level of scientific evidence, on the effects of...

September 9, 2015Initiatives, NewsRead more...

Survey on Sex Hormones in Chronic Kidney Disease

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This international survey is looking to examine the views of nephrologists, nephrology nurses and nephrology technologists on sex hormones in women with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). It is supported the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary and The Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Canada. You can take part in this survey by following the...

September 3, 2015News, ResearchRead more...

ISN Fellows application session: results are out

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Following the recent call for applications, the ISN Fellowship Program Committee is happy to announce that 19 fellowships will be funded following the second call for applications. The following number of applications were accepted per region: 7 applications from Africa 4 applications from OSEA 3 applications from North and East Asia 2 applications from Latin America 2 applications from South...

August 31, 2015Fellowship, NewsRead more...

Independent Investigators

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Mentoring researchers in developing countries, the ISN Clinical Research Program now also funds projects in specific areas of intervention - closing the gaps in kidney care. Improving research should lead to better patient care. Particularly, in lower and middle income nations where mentorship, infrastructure and funds for research differ. One of five pillars within the...

August 26, 2015Clinical Research, NewsRead more...