The Philippine Society of Nephrology (PSN), one of ISN's Collective-Member Societies, will be holding the webinar "Organ Trafficking in the 2020s - a Persisting Challenge for Transplant Professionals" at 6 p.m. Philippine Time on July 28, 2021 (convert to your time zone here). Register for the webinar here. ISN President, Agnes Fogo, will present the opening...
Professor Nan Chen, winner of the ISN Pioneer Award for North and East Asia The 2021 Annual Conference of Blood Purification, hosted by the Chinese Society of Nephrology (CSN), will take place from July 22-24, 2021, in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China. The conference will include presentation of the ISN 2021 Pioneer Award for North and East...
The 36th Congress of the Malaysian Society of Nephrology (MSN),‘Strengthening the Basics, Embracing Advances in Nephrology,’ will take place virtually from July 23-24, 2021. The congress will be held in conjunction with the virtual 17th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation (CAST 2021) from July 25-28, 2021. ISN leaders will have a joint session...
The 36th Congress of the Malaysian Society of Nephrology (MSN), ‘Strengthening the Basics, Embracing Advances in Nephrology,’ will take place virtually from July 23-24, 2021. The MSN is an ISN Collective-Member Society and will co-host WCN'22 alongside the Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology. The congress will be held in conjunction with the virtual 17th Congress of...
The XIX SLANH Congress 2021 will take place virtually from June 23-26, 2021, and includes pre-congress courses, Industry Symposia, abstract presentations, live plenary conferences, and live and on-demand thematic talks. The ISN and SLANH (Latin America Society of Nephrology and Hypertension) will jointly present the session, ‘Perspectives of nephrology: the pandemic and beyond’ on June...
On May 13, the ISN President, Agnes Fogo, spoke at the Third Annual Global Summit on Kidney Innovation: Expanding Patient Choices and Outcomes, organized by the American Association of Kidney Patients and the George Washington University, hosted virtually from May 13-14, 2021. Watch Professor Fogo’s presentation here. As a leader in the global kidney space,...
The ISN is pleased to participate in the upcoming virtual ERA-EDTA Congress from June 5-8, 2021. The ISN President, Agnes Fogo, will present a talk at 4 p.m. in the session “Improved Clarity of Definitions and Classification of Glomerular Lesions in Lupus Nephritis,” from 3-4.30 p.m. CEST on Monday, June 7. Do join us at the...
The #NephTrials initiative is an exciting series of conversations combining expertise from the ISN-ACT Global Trials Focus, the ISN-ACT Toolkit, and the #NephJC community. Join the latest #NephTrials discussion on May 25 at 9 p.m. ET. The conversation will focus on DIAL-MAG, which evaluates the effect of increased magnesium concentration in dialysate on the risk of...
Join us for a joint webinar between the ISN and the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology to understand connections between HF and CKD and discuss optimal management for patients. Stefan D. Anker (Germany), Debasish Banerjee (UK), Angela Yee-Moon Wang (China), and Wilfried Mullens (UK) will address: Pathophysiology of co-morbid heart failure and CKD: what...
Earlier this year, the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) and the European Kidney Patients’ Federation (EKPF) had a meeting with the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Ms. Stella Kyriakides. They presented EKHA’s call-to-action (CTA) to improve prevention, treatment, and care of CKD in the aftermath of COVID-19 and discuss EU priorities for...
The book “Nephrology Worldwide” has been published in electronic and print format by Springer Nature. The ISN contributed the chapter, “Nephrology Worldwide: A Perspective from the International Society of Nephrology,” co-authored by Titi Chen, Rolando Claure-Del Granado, David Harris, and Vivekanand Jha. This chapter is offered in the WCN’21 Delegate Bag. The book features content from...
The Partnership for Health System Sustainability Resilience (PHSSR), founded by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the London School of Economics, and AstraZeneca, is holding a summit from March 15-19, 2021. Register for the summit here. The summit on health system resilience and sustainability features a talk from ISN President Prof Vivek Jha on key recommendations for...
The Partnership for Health System Sustainability Resilience (PHSSR), founded by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the London School of Economics, and AstraZeneca, is holding a summit from March 15-19 2021. Registration details to follow shortly. “Improving the effectiveness of care” will bring together academia and the public and private sectors to share insights from nine months...
The Russian Dialysis Society will hold its 11th Annual Meeting with CME course in Moscow on March 12, 2021, the day after World Kidney Day (WKD). In line with the WKD theme for 2021, the meeting will highlight living well with kidney diseases. Fergus Caskey, ISN Executive Committee member, will be a key speaker at...
ISN Participates In June, ISN was present to interact with the public at the ERA-EDTA Congress. In July, the ISN was represented at APCN2020. Germaine Wong delivered, ‘Clinical Care of COVID-19 Infection: Perspective of a Frontline Nephrologist’, ISN President-Elect Agnes Fogo presented the Chan Woon-Cheung Award Lecture, and ISN President Vivek Jha gave his talk, ‘Preventive...
The 4th Asia Pacific AKI CRRT conference will take place from December 13-15, 2020, in Bangkok, Thailand. The event is presented by the Nephrology Society of Thailand (NST) and the Thai Society of Critical Care Medicine and CRRT Inc., in collaboration with the ISN, the Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology (APSN), the Kidney Foundation of...
The ISN is participating in a summit organized by the American Kidney Fund (AKF) to plan strategies to improve understanding of how undiagnosed or misdiagnosed causes of kidney disease directly impact patient care and outcomes. The virtual event will take place on December 1 from 12 – 4 p.m. ET. The summit will include participation...
The Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Society of Nephrology will take place virtually from November 12-15, 2020, on the theme "Integrated Collaboration for Excellent Kidney Care.” ISN President, Vivek Jha, will present his talk, ‘Clinical Issues of COVID-19 in Kidney Care’ on November 13 from 8:30-9:15 a.m. Indonesian time, during Plenary I. David Harris, ISN past-President,...
The Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (AZNSN) will be held over three days, from November 30-December 2, 2020. The conference is preceded by the 2020 Nephrology and Transplantation Update Course on November 28 and 29, designed for advanced trainees in nephrology and practicing nephrologists. ISN President, Vivekanand Jha,...
The Colombian Association of Nephrology and Arterial Hypertension (ASOCOLNEF) will hold the XXII Colombian and International Extended Congress of Nephrology and Transplantation as a virtual congress over seven weeks from October 27 to December 14, 2020. The congress is aimed at nephrologists and other health care providers from the Ibero-American region. The increased timespan enables an...