[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Prof. Shan-yan Lin from Hua-shan Hospital at Fu-dan University was granted an ISN Pioneer Award at the recent ISN North and East Asia Regional Workshop, held in conjunction with the Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of Nephrology (CSN) in Zhuhai, China. Aside from rewarding Prof. Shan-yan for his efforts in advancing nephrology across the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
