Discover the Latest ISN Advocacy Initiatives in 'Bridging the Gaps': ISN participation at the 75th World Health Assembly, and More Welcome members and allies to Bridging the Gaps, the ISN’s quarterly update on how we advocate and collaborate with patients and partners to address the global burden of kidney disease. I am writing to you at the...
Finerenone was recently found to reduce the risk of clinically important kidney outcomes in #CKD patients with type 2 diabetes. Have a look at this FIDELITY trial analysis to learn more. Click on the image to download the infographic.
Register for "Expert Insights: Ethical Aspects of Kidney Care for Women" here. The workshop will take place at 3 p.m. CEST on June 28. Why is this content important? Several ethical issues may impact the provision of kidney care for women, including gender bias and discrimination, and complex decision-making about pregnancy and reproductive care in the context...
Vimbayi Makanza from Zimbabwe recently completed an ISN Fellowship in Johannesburg, South Africa, under mentorship from Prof. Graham Paget at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. While there, she passed the College of Physicians of South Africa Certificate in Nephrology examination. A few months after her training Vimbayi was inducted into the College of Physicians of...
The ISN is pleased to announce that it has signed a new partnership with CREED - Cross-Regional Education & Exchange in Dialysis – an organization that promotes dialysis education in Southeast Asia. The collaboration is expanding to integrate additional ISN Programs to advance dialysis education, including the CME, Educational Ambassador, Sister Centers, and Interventional Nephrology...
Afin que le cadre pour le développement de programmes de dialyse dans les régions à faibles ressources, notamment les régions francophones, soit facilement accessible et utilisable, l’ISN le publie en français. Ce cadre vise à répondre à la prévalence croissante de la maladie rénale chronique (MRC), de l’insuffisance rénale chronique (IRC) dans le monde, et...
By Dr. Ahad Qayyum Dr. Ahad Qayyum is the co-founder of the PD Academy of Pakistan and is an active member of the ISN Young Nephrologists Committee, ISN Educational Ambassador’s Committee and the ISN South Asian Regional Board. Many developing nations worldwide experience similar issues of unreliable infrastructure, overpopulation, limited health expenditure, and inefficient use of...
Please join us in congratulating Professor Robyn Langham, who has been honored on the Queen’s Birthday 2022 Honors List for her significant service to renal health research and tertiary medical education. Professor Langham is a nephrologist, medical researcher, and Head of School, Monash University Rural Health. She has researched fibrosis in human renal disease, contributing...
The upcoming narrative-based chapter of the Clinical Trials (ISN-ACT) Toolkit will describe descriptive and inferential statistics to help you easily get to grips with building a statistical analytical plan. The new chapter will be released in July 2022. This series of narratives is produced by ISN-ACT Clinical Trials Toolkit subgroup members based on topics from the ISN-ACT...
Read " Dialysis Vascular Access Training: A Peruvian Experience" here. Edwin Castillo, ISN Educational Ambassador Committee member, and Tushar Vachharajani, past chair of the ISN Education Working Group, Interventional Nephrology Working Group and North America and Caribbean Regional Board member, have written a joint paper on dialysis vascular access training in Peru, which has been...
Last month, the 12 members of the second ISN Emerging Leaders cohort began activities on collaborative leadership and problem-solving in global kidney health as part of their two-year participation in the ISN Emerging Leaders Program (ELP). Find out more about the ISN ELP here. Once such activity was a virtual workshop, “Insights Discovery - A...
Accepted abstracts to the ISN Frontiers Meeting on complement-related kidney diseases have been published in the latest supplement to Kidney International Reports. Review the open-access abstracts here. The meeting is being held in Bergamo, Italy, from June 23-25, 2022.
The call for nominations to receive ISN Awards in 2023 is open until August 29, 2022. All ISN Members can nominate candidates for: Alfred Newton Richards Award Roscoe R. Robinson Award Lillian Jean Kaplan International Prize for Advancement in the Understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease Pioneer Awards Discover more on ISN Awards and the requirements for nominations here. Award winners...
Do you have career goals in nephrology but need some guidance on how to achieve those goals? The ISN has recruited mentors from all over the world to provide advice and direction to mentees. Find out more about the ISN Mentorship Program here. Apply here to be an ISN Mentee. The deadline to apply is September 1, 2022. The...
The second high-level World NCD Congress, organized by the University of Michigan Medical School and the World NCD Federation, was held from June 9 to 11, 2022. The symposium, "Precision Medicine and Prevention of Chronic Disease," was moderated by ISN i3C (International Consortium CKDu Collaborators) Working Group Chair Shuchi Anand and ISN Education Working Group...
The ISN Frontiers Meeting in New Delhi, India will take place from September 22-25, 2022. The theme is bi-directional relationships between infections and kidney diseases. Register for the meeting at a special price by midnight CEST, June 23, 2022, here. Infections can cause acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease, and all patients with kidney diseases,...
The World NCD Congress 2022 is a free virtual event from June 9-11, 2022, Eastern Standard Time. The event is hosted by the University of Michigan Medical School and the World NCD Federation. The theme of this second edition of the congress is ‘Prioritizing Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases: Taking Data and Knowledge to Action.’ The...
Mentee Dr. Adeyemo Abiodun Mentee Dr. Adeyemo Abiodun from the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital in Nigeria has completed his first mentorship exchange through the ISN Mentorship Program. Dr. Abiodun's main objective within the mentor-mentee partnership was to improve his clinical skills in diagnosing renal diseases, notably hypertension and chronic glomerulonephritis, two common causes of chronic...
A Vietnamese nurse surveys endotoxins in dialysate in the hemodialysis unit at BMH The Bach Mai Hospital (BMH) in Vietnam received training and guidance from the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) in Japan during their six-year collaboration through the ISN Sister Renal Centers Program and has now graduated from the program. Dr....
Held in May, the meeting brought together 40 members of the ISN i3C (International Consortium CKDu Collaborators) network and the ISN Renal Pathology Working Group The meeting highlighted the need to increase kidney biopsies in CKDu (chronic kidney disease of unknown origin) and improve biopsy preservation. Three ISN i3C network members presented: Richard Johnson outlined the usefulness of kidney...