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ADVANCE WITH THE ISN EDUCATIONAL AMBASSADORS PROGRAM – NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

Does your center need expert guidance to develop: new initiatives, skills or services, community-based research, or screening programs? The ISN welcomes applications for the Educational Ambassadors Program. Educational Ambassadors help improve clinical care in: clinical cases and research in dialysis, interventional nephrology, renal pathology, transplantation, and peritoneal dialysis. This tailored guidance increases the confidence of professionals, including nurses and technicians, as well as helps improve patients' quality of life and survival rate. The ISN identifies a suitable expert...

October 12, 2020Grants, NewsRead more...

Join ISN President Vivek Jha at the Brazilian Congress

ISN President, Vivek Jha, will present the opening address and an “ISN Presents” talk at the Brazilian Nephrology Congress, held virtually from October 15-17, 2020.  Prof. Jha’s thirty-minute talk, “The Impact of COVID in Nephrology,” will be presented in English during the Clinical Nephrology session at 8 a.m. Brazilian time (1 p.m. CEST) on Saturday, October 17.   Three other talks in the session will be presented in Portuguese,...

October 12, 2020ISN Participates, NewsRead more...

Apply to Become a Leader in ISN Committees and Working Groups – Deadline Extended to Friday, 30 October

ISN leadership positions open: Apply today Application deadline extended to Friday, 30 October Our sincere thanks to all our members who have already applied for leadership positions soon becoming available within several groups. Due to these busy and uncertain times and to encourage as many applications as possible, we have decided to extend the opportunity to our...

October 1, 2020News, Society AffairsRead more...
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Explore our new website

It is hard to imagine a stranger and more educative year than 2020. Humanity has lost a lot, hopefully we will rediscover our values - especially that global threats need global collaboration. The inequities around the world highlighted by this year's events make the ISN's mission of striving for equitable access to kidney care everywhere...

September 11, 2020NewsRead more...
One month on: Beirut after the blast

One Month on: Beirut after the Blast – an ISN Young Nephrologist Reports

The city's infrastructure, including supplies and services to the Renal Community, has been severely damaged, recounts Dr. Sabine Karam one month after Beirut suffered a massive explosion of such strength that it was felt 150 miles away in Cyprus, killing 190 persons and injuring some 6,500 others. Dr. Karam,  Head of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at...

September 4, 2020NewsRead more...

Saving Young Lives (SYL) Renal Basic Life Support Training Course 2019

As part of the Saving Young Lives Project* a peritoneal dialysis (PD) training workshop was held at St John’s Medical College Hospital in Bengaluru, India, from November 15-16, 2019. The workshop aimed to empower pediatricians working in the community and in hospital settings with a skill-based approach to the management of a child with acute kidney...

December 16, 2019NewsRead more...

ISN Welcomes Two New Collective Societies

The Colombian Association of Nephrology and Arterial Hypertension (ASOCOLNEF) and the Paraguayan Society of Nephrology (SPN) have joined as ISN Collective Societies, further strengthening a mutual commitment to the advancement of nephrology in the Latin American region. Members of the SPN and ASOCOLNEF will enjoy the full benefits of ISN membership for a tailored fee. Collective Society status increases...

December 16, 2019NewsRead more...

New ISN-Alder Hey Paediatric Nephrology Fellowship: Call for Participants

ISN is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, United Kingdom, supporting one long-term Fellowship per year to train in pediatric nephrology. The collaboration seeks to contribute to the development of renal care in low and middle-income countries. To start with, candidates will need to establish a training plan with...

December 16, 2019NewsRead more...

Honoring the past, welcoming the future: ISN 60th anniversary

The celebratory activities to mark ISN’s 60th anniversary in 2020 have been launched. Throughout 2020, ISN will highlight past accomplishments, current projects, and future aspirations in its mission to advance kidney health worldwide. Some of the activities taking place in our 60th year are: a series of articles, “Milestones in Nephrology”, published in ISN journal Kidney International, highlighting 60 groundbreaking papers that...

December 16, 2019NewsRead more...

Educational Ambassador lectures on the nutritional management of CKD in Lima

As part of the Educational Ambassadors Program (EAP), the ISN supported Jaime Uribarri, from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, to spend one week in May 2019 as ISN Educational Ambassador to train staff at the Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara in Lima, Peru. The aim of the training was to increase knowledge about the nutritional management...

December 12, 2019Education, NewsRead more...