The ISN Sister Center (SRC) Program has finalized the list of centers that will take part in the program following the recent call for applications. We would like to welcome them to the program and congratulate this year’s graduates. For a full list of the centers that will collaborate in 2016, CLICK HERE. This year, four...
Following the recent call for applications, 10 new centers will welcome an ISN Educational Ambassador to their institution in 2016. These ISN experts respond to the need to fill gaps in knowledge and technology in different parts of the developing world and optimize patient care by imparting focused training and supervision. These Ambassadors and centers will...
This blog post is provided by Anil Chandraker, Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ISN Educational Ambassador Vanessa Bijol. In the past two years The Renal Division and the Nephropathology Service at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts has trained two ISN Fellows from Thailand in transplant nephrology and two from Nigeria...
ISN Fellow Sudakshina Ghosh from Tanzania trained at the Madras Medical Mission and got involved with India’s Tanker Foundation, which helps the country’s poorest kidney patients. Host mentor and Tanker Foundation Founder Georgi Abraham believes more fellows from Africa and South Asia should be encouraged to train in India as it “adds value to their...
ISN is happy to announce that Baxter and the University Health Network in Toronto is set to co-fund ISN Fellows wishing to receive training in home dialysis. As required in all ISN Fellowship Programs, participants are encouraged to share what they have learned with their colleagues once they return to their home institution. This particular...
This blog post is provided thanks to reports from Hui Kim Yap from the National University of Singapore and Yi Yi Khin from the Yangon Children's Hospital and Mandalay Children's Hospital. They both took part in ISN’s Educational Ambassador Program. In January, ISN Educational Ambassador Hui Kim Yap visited Yangon Children Hospital, Myanmar to share...
The ISN Clinical Research Program Committee is pleased to announce the results of the ISN Clinical Research Program’s second round of applications in 2015. These grants help implement research projects to detect and manage non-communicable chronic diseases such as Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease in low-to-middle income countries, involving local nephrologists,...
Following the recent application session, the ISN Programs team is happy to announce that a total of 25 ISN Fellowships have now been approved, with 19 new ISN Fellows and six extensions. Africa and Latin America are the regions with the most accepted applications (9 each), followed by the NIS and Russia and OSEA regions...
ISN is happy to announce the latest list of transplant centers that have been accepted into the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Center Program. These centers will take part in this program in 2016 following a call for applications in September 2015. The ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Center Program is a joint partnership set up between ISN and The...
Collaboration with the ISN Educational Ambassador Program has helped the Pro-Renal Foundation in Brazil develop its interventional nephrology services. Former Chairman of the ISN Interventional Nephrology Committee, who leads the initiative, Dr. Miguel Riella believes the program would not have grown to this extent without ISN’s valuable training support. ISN Educational Ambassador Dr. Donald Schon from...
Saraladevi Naicker and David Harris have now come to the end of their mandates as chairs of the ISN Educational Ambassador (EAP) and Fellowship Programs. We would like to thank them for their dedication and wish them all the best in their future endeavors. Vivek Jha and Allison Eddy will now replace them as chairs...
Nephrology training in a low-cost setting is more effective in understanding how to treat the poorest kidney patients in the world. ISN Fellow Sudakshina Ghosh from Tanzania trained at the Madras Medical Mission and got involved with India’s Tanker Foundation – an organization helping the country’s poorest kidney patients. Host mentor and Tanker Foundation Founder Georgi Abraham...
Klara Paudel’s dedication to nephrology is changing kidney patient care and research across Nepal. “In the developed world, you can rely on someone senior for guidance. Almost all specialists in emerging countries have to work on their own, relying on their own judgment and what they read in literature. It was similar for me. Born in...
Kidney transplant program now comes to fruition in Ethiopia, thanks to the dedication of the country’s nephrologists. In September, a team from the University of Michigan carried out kidney transplant operations at St-Pauls Hospital, Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) in Addis Ababa. They will visit every four to six weeks to help with future procedures. In...
Doctors at Moscow City Nephrology Center got a refresher course from Italian sister center on the symptoms of Acute Kidney Injury and a frontier view on some kidney diseases. Since 2009, the ISN Sister Renal Center partnership between the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research and Moscow City Nephrology Center has offered valuable training to...
ISN Fellows are actively changing the state of care for Nepal’s growing number of kidney patients. In many developing countries, the burden of noncommunicable diseases is increasing. In Nepal, it is estimated that there are 2900 new cases of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) every year. This means 100 cases per million people. With no registry,...
An ISN-sponsored Pan-Palestine Nephrology and Kidney Transplant Conference was held in Nablus and Gaza City from October 12 to 18, 2015. The meeting was a great opportunity to exchange knowledge but also led to two kidney transplants being carried out on patients from the region. Dr. Benjamin Thomson, from Queen's University Division of Nephrology, Kingston...
ISN Belarus German Sister Renal Center partnership raises awareness about treating Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) across intensive care units (ICUs) in Minsk. This September, a multidisciplinary meeting took place in Belarus, focused on treating AKI across intensive care units. The course attracted doctors and fellows from intensive care and nephrology units in the Minsk area. After...
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)...
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...