ISN and The Transplantation Society (TTS) are delighted to announce the results of the latest call for applications of ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Center Program. Five new sister center pairs were approved at entry level this year. The collaboration between FUNDANIER/Hospital Roosevelt and University of California, Los Angeles (Guatemala and United States) and Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza...
The next deadline for the ISN-ANIO Clinical Nephropathology Certificate Program has now been extended to March 20, 2015. So do not miss the chance to take part in this great online course. ISN and the American Nephrologists of Indian Origin (ANIO) are pleased to announce the 2015 Clinical Nephropathology Certificate Program (CNC). To find out...
There is now some new content to use or register for on ISN Education. So, head to the portal to find out more. Join the WCN 2015 Conversation! ISN's World Congress of Nephrology begins today! For those not able to join us in Cape Town this March 13-17, ISN Education is proposing two ways to follow select plenary...
ISN is delighted to announce that ISN President Elect Adeera Levin has been selected by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) as the recipient of this year’s Aubrey J. Tingle Prize. The prize will be presented in partnership with LifeSciences BC at their annual awards banquet on Thursday April 16, 2015. "It is...
The ISN General Assembly will meet on Monday March 16, 2015 to hear and discuss the reports from ISN President Giuseppe Remuzzi and Secretary General Ricardo Correa Rotter. Remuzzi will present the results of the elections, then Stuart Shankland and Luca Segantini will give the Treasurer’s report. Programs and activities will be also discussed, among them...
We are pleased to announce that the Indian Society of Nephrology (INDSN) has agreed to co-sponsor a number of ISN Educational Ambassadors, ISN Fellowships and ISN Sister Renal Center Programs until 2016. The agreement was recently signed and will offer more opportunities for applicants to get involved in these global outreach programs. INDSN counts 1,200 nephrologists...
The developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa are under threat by an emerging epidemic of kidney disease. Populations are no longer solely affected by ‘diseases of poverty’ such as HIV/TB/malaria but also ‘diseases of affluence’ such as diabetes and hypertension. Disease is often asymptomatic until end-stage disease develops requiring expensive treatment options such as transplant or...
The Department of Non-communicable Diseases and Mental Health of The Pan American Health Organization (part of WHO), in collaboration with the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension, and as part of the activities to mark World Kidney Day, is organising a webinar on Kidney Health for All. The webinar will take place on Thursday,...
Sensitizing local communities about AKI is how two Sister Renal Centers are changing the state of care in Malawi, starting off in the southern city of Blantyre. Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is an ongoing concern in Malawi. Many simply do not know that if identified early, it is often easily treatable with fluids and antibiotics....
Last August, ISN Educational Ambassador Ming-Hub Zhao from Peking University First Hospital gave talks on epidemiology, acute kidney injury and renal pathology. He spent a week at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University to update local doctors. The objectives included giving advice on establishing cohorts of patients with glomerulonephritis (GN) for further study,...
Kidney pathology educational programs available to the worldwide nephrology community are rather limited. In 2014, ISN and the American Nephrologists of Indian Origin (ANIO) set up a year-long web-based Clinical Nephropathology Certificate Program (CNC) to help physicians worldwide who seek training in the principles and practice of nephropathology. Priority was given to in-training applicants from...
South African surgeon Elmi Muller carried out the first "HIV positive to positive" kidney transplants, giving hope to the country's growing number of HIV kidney patients. As more HIV positive patients are living longer thanks to breakthroughs in treatment, many show signs of other diseases including HIV nephropathy. Up until recently, these patients were not eligible...
ISN is happy to announce the results of the last round of applications for the ISN Sister Renal Center (SRC) Program. CLICK HERE to read the list of active pairs and trios for this year. Congratulations to the two sister pairs Egypt-SKI and Tunisia-Belgium who have graduated from the program. 24 new centers have now joined the...
Breaking language barriers in El Salvador to teach the importance of vascular care for kidney patients. Last September, Educational Ambassador Octavio Salgado from University of Zulia Faculty of Medicine, Venezuela visited the Servicio de Nefrologia, Hospital Nacional Rosales in El Salvador. Aside from giving valuable training, he implemented a new vascular access policy tailored to...
This year, we will be celebrating World Kidney Day (WKD) during the ISN World Congress of Nephrology. Come and support WKD by joining the WKD Sunset Walk on March 12, 2015. All the details about registering can be found on the WCN 2015 website, CLICK HERE. The walk will start at the Sea Point Promenade (Open Air...
We have some great activities in store at the World Congress of Nephrology to celebrate 10 years of World Kidney Day on March 12, 2015. World Kidney Day (WKD) is just around the corner so it is time to get creative. We will be celebrating the day before the ISN World Congress of Nephrology (WCN),...
There is less than one month to go before we kick off ISN‘s World Congress of Nephrology 2015 (taking place on March 13-17, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa). WCN 2015 provides a unique opportunity to share views on a wide variety of topics in nephrology that are related to patients suffering from kidney disease...
ISN’s Kidney International and Kidney International Supplements to be published by Elsevier as of January 2016. New York, NY, February 17, 2015 - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), the global medical society devoted to advancing kidney care worldwide, announced today that Elsevier will publish ISN’s...
The call for applications is now open for mini sabbaticals in nephropathology. Deadline is March 1st, 2015. The ISN Renal Pathology Committee is seeking applications for one mini sabbatical for a nephropathologist from a developing country (as defined by the ISN) to provide partial support for short term in-depth study of renal pathology, by immersion...
During the ISN World Congress of Nephrology, the World Kidney Fund (WKF) is launching an Art for Awareness campaign. Poster reproductions of “Cape Town I Love You and All Your Secrets” by South African artist Pamela Silver will be given to those who help raise funds for WKF projects. The total amount raised will be donated to...