[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Vellore, Tamil Nadu in southern India in January. Warm and pleasant, rather like a good English summer but the locals say it is a bit too chilly! I am glad January was chosen for my ISN Educational Ambassador visit to the Christian Medical College (CMC) – before the monsoon season and the seriously hot...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Royal Liverpool University has been working together with the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza since 2013. Read 'The Guardian' report of Salim, a member of the Liverpool team during their last visit to Gaza in February: CLICK HERE to read the article in The Guardian. This program was made possible thanks to a growing ISN-TTS Sister...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Earlier this January, several ISN Continuing Medical Education courses took place across China in Shanghai, Jiaxing and Hangzhou. These meetings were made possible thanks to a valuable partnership between the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Ruijin Hospital Jiao Tong University, Chang Zheng Hospital, the Second Military Medical University and the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University. Lectures...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A new ISN Programs application session is now open. You can easily apply online in a few clicks for ISN Fellowships, Educational Ambassadors visits, Clinical Research projects as well as the Sister Renal Center and ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers Programs. The deadline for all these programs is May 1st, 2016. Applications for the Continuing Medical...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
