The ISN warmly congratulates its president, Professor Vivekanand Jha, for receiving the American Nephrologists of Indian Origin (ANIO) 2019 Award for Academic Excellence for his outstanding achievements in nephrology. Professor Jha is the Executive Director at The George Institute for Global Health in India, and a James Martin Fellow at The George Institute for Global...
Fergus Caskey represented the Executive Committee at the 15th BANTAO Congress in Skopje, North Macedonia, that took place in September. Dr. Caskey presented Halima Resic with the ISN 2019 Pioneer Award in recognition of her research into the effects of frailty and depression on the nutritional status of hemodialysis patients. In addition to her roles...
The 2019 ISN Pioneer Award winner for the Oceania and South East Asia region (OSEA) is Professor Emeritus Supat Vanichakarn from Thailand. Professor Vanichakarn was presented with his award on April 24, 2019 at the Nephrology Society of Thailand CKD Forum, ‘Closing the Gap in the Management of Chronic Kidney Disease.’ Vanichakarn has performed exceptional work...
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Clinical Research and Fellowship Program awards! Both of these awards were sponsored by the Japanese Society of Nephrology (JSN). Many thanks to JSN for its support and helping us reward these ISN members for their achievements in the field of nephrology. The ISN Clinical Research Program supports research and education...
The ISN World Congress of Nephrology was also the time to honor the achievements of our community, working together to advance kidney health worldwide. Chosen by ISN members, this year’s ISN award winners were proudly honored in various categories for their commitment to nephrology. Congratulations to all the winners and many thanks to all ISN...
ISN is happy to announce the winners of the free passes for the upcoming Vicenza Course on acute kidney injury (AKI) and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). Congratulations to the following lucky winners selected by the ISN Young Nephrologists Committee: Dr Krissia Wallbach (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Dr Liew Zhong Hong (Singapore) Dr Emily See (Melbourne, Australia) The course will...
The Lillian Jean Kaplan International Prize for Advancement in the Understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is open for nominations until September 14, 2018. Nominate a medical, scientific professional or researcher showing excellence and leadership in PKD clinical or basic research and whose work has helped improve the knowledge and treatment of PKD. The award will...
An astounding 3.9 million USD has now been raised by a research team at the George Institute for Global Health in Sydney Australia to support the development of a cost-efficient peritoneal dialysis system, giving hope to kidney disease patients desperately in need of treatment in the developing world. According to data published in 2015 by...
Past ISN President and previous ISN Programs Chairman William G Couser is set to receive this year's John P Peters Award from the American Society of Nephrology (ASN). A great testimony to his long-standing contribution to nephrology. William Couser is currently Affiliate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington...
Every two years, the ISN presents awards that acknowledge exceptional contributions to the field of nephrology and we need your help to determine the candidates. We are now accepting nominations to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to and reward the doctors on a regional level who have carried out extraordinary efforts to advance...
Congratulations to Amin Arnaout, who has recently been selected to receive the 2018 Homer Smith Award of the American Society of Nephrology. Amin was an ISN Councillor from 2001 to 2009. Amin is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Physician and Chief Emeritus, Division of Nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Principal Investigator, Harvard...
ISN is happy to announce the winners of the free passes for the upcoming Vicenza Course on acute kidney injury (AKI) and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). The course will take place from June 12 to 15, 2018 at the Fiera di Vicenza Convention Center in Italy. It gathers specialists from different disciplines in a single scientific...
The Lithuanian Society of Nephrology Society recently announced that the country’s President, Dalia Grybauskaite, presented Prof. Vytautas Kuzminski’s with the Cross of the Knight of the Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania. A proud moment as Prof. Kuzminski is dedicated to improving care in the country and has been a longstanding participant of...
With great regret, we announce the death of ISN member and Pioneers Award winner, Nestor Schor. Read the full obituary below. Nestor Schor, MD, PhD died unexpectedly in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the age of 71. He graduated from the Federal University of Sao Paulo Medical School in 1972, and in 1977 received his PhD...
On December 9, 2017, the ISN North and East Asia regional workshop was held during the second International Congress of Chinese Nephrologists (ICCN) and the Taiwan Society of Nephrology's (TSN) annual meeting. The workshop was chaired by Ming-Hui Zhao and Chih-Wei Yang, the current Chair and Deputy-Chair of this region. ISN Program Chair John Feehally opened...
ISN was well represented at the ISN-EMAN Update Congress in Nephrology, held in Dubai from December 13 to 16, 2017. The organisation was flawless, under the leadership of Mona Al-Rukhaimi, Congress President, President of the Emirates Medical Association Nephrology Society (EMAN) and previous Chair of the ISN Middle East Regional Board and Executive Committee...
Congratulations to Dr. Assiya Kanatbayeva from the Kazakh National Medical University. She received an ISN Pioneer award at the recent ISN Regional Board meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia at the end of October. From almost nothing Dr. Kanatbayeva developed a wide net of nephrology care in her country, educated and trained many students, and is recognized...
It was great to receive so much feedback from the Global Education Survey we sent out recently. Many thanks to everybody who got involved. It gave us great insight and will be very valuable input to develop and improve our future training activities and initiatives. More details on the results will follow. However, in the...
Congratulations to Dr Ayla San from Turkey who received the ISN Pioneer award for eastern and central Europe in recognition of her outstanding and sustained contributions in establishing and developing nephrology. ISN Programs Chair John Feehally and Eastern and Central Europe Regional Board Chair Rumeyza Kazancioğlu were honored to present Dr San with the ISN...
The Bernd Tersteegen prize rewards basic and clinical research related to chronic renal insufficiency and advances in treating end-stage renal disease. Application are now open until July 17, 2017. The award was established following the death of Dr. Bernd Tersteegen in 1995. Tersteegen was the founder of the Verband Deutsche Nierenzentren (DN) e.V. and was...