Aristide Eric Nono Tomta, Yaoundé General Hospital, Cameroon On November 10, the first living donor kidney transplant was successfully carried out in Central Africa by a team from the Yaoundé General Hospital in Cameroon, collaborating with health professionals from the University Hospital in Yaoundé and the University of Geneva Hospitals in Switzerland. Watch a local news...
The XVI National Russian Dialysis Conference and XX CME Course will take place in hybrid format from November 19-21, 2021. Elena Zakharova, RDS president, former member of the ISN Executive Committee, and current member of the NIS and Russia Regional Board, will introduce the ISN and the ISN-Russian Dialysis Society (RDS) joint session from 9-9:10...
ISN President Agnes Fogo will present two talks during the pre-congress sessions on October 20, 2021: 8 a.m. Tehran time: Updates in Definition and Classification of Lupus Nephritis 2:35 p.m. Tehran time: Nephropathologic Aspects of Diabetes Mellitus The 18th International Congress of Nephrology, Dialysis, and Transplantation is hosted by the Iranian Society of Nephrology and will take...
The 16th BANTAO Congress (Balkan Association of Nephrology, Dialysis, and Artificial Organs) will be in hybrid format from October 29-31, 2021, in Tirana, Albania. The event provides a fitting platform to present László Rosivall with the ISN 2021 Pioneer Award for the Eastern and Central Europe region on October 30, 2021, at 11:10 a.m. CEST....
Some of the participants at the SRC Workshop on May 20, 2021 The Sister Renal Centers (SRC) Committee held a workshop for SRC pairs currently at level A or B on the SRC Program on Thursday, May 20, 2021. SRC Committee Chairs Marcelo Orias and Chih-Wei Yang hosted the workshop attended by 22 SRC partnerships and...
Professor Chul Woo Yang, President of the KSN Throughout 2021, the ISN is presenting its Collective-Member Societies through a series of interviews. As part of the current focus on the ISN South Asia region, we spoke to the President of the Korean Society of Nephrology (KSN), Professor Chul Woo Yang, about KSN's recent initiatives to...
The ISN is pleased to share that Senegal will soon have the largest dialysis unit in Western Africa. The ISN Dialysis Working Group chair, Abdou Niang, recently presented the project to Senegal’s President, Macky Sall. This brand-new unit will be part of the four-story Dalal Jamm Hospital in Dakar. This major referral hospital receives patients who are...
The ISN Online Scientific Writing Course, cohosted by the Sociedad LatinoAmericana de Nefrología e Hypertensión (SLANH), began on Saturday May 8. The course, comprising four live sessions via Zoom, will take place on consecutive Saturdays until May 29. SLANH's President, Dr. Alejandro Ferreiro Fuentes, introduced the first session, welcoming ten selected participants - young ISN...
Following the success of its first webinar in 2020, the ISN Middle East Regional Board held its second webinar on January 21, "Epidemiology and Management of Glomerulonephritides – Middle-East Perspective." Watch a recording of this webinar here. The webinar, introduced by Dr. Shahrdzad Ossareh, ISN Middle East Regional Board Chair, discussed: Epidemiology of glomerulonephritides in the Middle...
After a well-received and successful first online learning session, the South Asia Regional Board will hold part 2 of the case-based discussion, “NEPHRO-CONNECT,” on Sunday, February 21, 2021, from 6-8 p.m. IST. Faculty developed two case presentations: Post-transplant infectious disease Post-transplant TMA See brochure for information on the program and registration. SARB is chaired by Dr. Manisha Sahay and...
After a well-received and successful first online learning session, the South Asia Regional Board will host the second in the series, “NEPHRO-CONNECT,” a case-based discussion. See brochure for information on the program and registration The second in the series, “NEPHRO-CONNECT,” a case-based discussion Click here to register Download Brochure
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The ISN Eastern and Central Europe Regional Board will hold the webinar, “ ISN-Eastern and Central Europe Regional Board Webinar: 2020 KDIGO guidelines for the treatment of glomerular disease – what is new? part 2” at 4 p.m. CET on November 10, 2020. See the full schedule, speaker bios, and register for the webinar here. The event features...
The ISN Eastern and Central Europe Regional Board held the webinar, “ISN-Eastern and Central Europe Regional Board Webinar: 2020 KDIGO guidelines for the treatment of glomerular disease – what is new? part 1” on October 27, 2020. Watch for the webinar here. The event features talks by: Rosanna Coppo (Italy) Andreas Kronbichler (Austria) Kultigin Turkmen (Turkey) and will be moderated...
The ISN Middle East Regional Board will hold the webinar, “COVID-19 and the Kidneys in the Middle East Countries,” at 9 a.m. CEST on October 1, 2020. See the full schedule, speaker bios, and register for the webinar here. The webinar, which includes a question and answer session, will discuss: The epidemiology of the coronavirus in kidney...
The ISN South Asia Regional Board (SARB) held virtually its first two-day conference on September 26 and 27: “CONNECT - 2020 Conference on Nephrology advances and Newer and Emerging Concepts in Transplantation.” Download the conference brochure here. 534 attended the event on day one, and 474 on day two to follow a series of live talks ranging...
Angie Aguilar-Gonzalez, an ISN-H4KH new investigator, focused her research on an area in Guatemala with high incidences of renal disease of unknown cause. Given the high variability of fluid intake across the globe and the health consequences of these variations, she chose to measure hydration patterns and renal function markers in a group of children...
Dr. Rolando Claure Del Granado, Kidney Care Network (KCN) Project Lead in Bolivia, joined Dr. Raúl Plata, Regional Councilor of the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension (SLANH) at the Ministry of Health in La Paz on September 10th to meet with Dr. Adolfo Zarate, Head of the National Kidney Health Program and his...
As part of the Kidney Care Network project, a two-day acute kidney injury (AKI) training was held in Santarém at the NACE-NUMETROP regional hospital on May 13-14, 2019 with approximately 30 healthcare workers, among which nurses, doctors, internal medicine residents and medical/nurse graduate students from 4 health care centers in the Amazonian state of...