Register before March 31, 2021, and receive a preferential fee: Friends@WCN ISN, Canadian Society of Nephrology (CSN), and Société Québécoise de Néphrologie (SQN) members can register as a group of at least five people and benefit from a 20% reduction on their registration fee. Find out more here. Team-up@WCN Enjoy Virtual WCN’21 as a group alongside your...
This year’s edition of the ISN Community Film Event received more than 30 films from 20 different countries. The ISN warmly invites you to watch these personal and powerful accounts that help raise awareness of living with kidney diseases. Voting for the winner opens on World Kidney Day, March 11, 2021. An ISN Jury will select...
Following the success of its first webinar in 2020, the ISN Middle East Regional Board held its second webinar on January 21, "Epidemiology and Management of Glomerulonephritides – Middle-East Perspective." Watch a recording of this webinar here. The webinar, introduced by Dr. Shahrdzad Ossareh, ISN Middle East Regional Board Chair, discussed: Epidemiology of glomerulonephritides in the Middle...
ISN voting members have 3 days left to vote for the next ISN President-Elect and Regional Board Deputy Chair / Council member in their ISN region. I strongly encourage all voting members to participate in this important process for the ISN. To vote, login to your MYISN account at www.theisn.org (preferred browser Chrome), click on the...
Kidney International has published the KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for management of blood pressure (BP) in chronic kidney disease (CKD), which replaces the 2004 Kidney Disease Quality Outcomes Initiative document on the same topic. This new guideline is designed to help physicians in their clinical decision-making for patients with CKD who are not receiving dialysis. The...
The European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME® www.uems.eu) has accredited WCN’21 for up to 18 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist can only claim the credits for educational activities attended. Physicians can convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Continuous education facilitates professional progress and helps provide the...
The second in the ISN ‘Spotlight Session,’ ISN Research Spotlight: How we bridge gaps, build capacity, and connect communities, will take place on March 2, 2021, at 3 p.m. CET. Register here. Join a panel of ISN members dedicated to advancing kidney health research to explore the challenges, opportunities, and global impact of ISN research initiatives....
The World Kidney Day 2021 position paper, “Towards patient-centered care for people living with kidney disease,” presents top-line evidence, context, and call-to-actions for anyone advocating for patient-centered kidney care and decision-making. Central to the paper is the conviction that kidney care at all levels, policy, research, and management, is most effective when developed in partnership with patients...
“Water intake and progression of chronic kidney disease: the CKD-REIN cohort study” by ISN Hydration For Kidney Health (ISN-H4KH) Research Grant awardee, Sandra Wagner, was published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation on February 12, 2021. Read the full article here. Sandra Wagner et al. investigated the relationship between water intake and kidney failure progression in CKD patients...
World Kidney Day 2021: Living well with kidney disease will be broadcast at two different time slots on World Kidney Day (WKD), March 11, 2021: 11 March, 11 a.m. CET and 10 p.m. CET. Use a time zone converter to select a session. Register here. The webinar, featuring prominent figures in kidney health, will bring together the WKD...
