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17TH International Congress of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Program Available to View at the ISN Academy

Below, Left to Right: 1. Mohsen Nafar (President of IrSN and Congress), 2. David Harris (Past-President of ISN), 3. Shahrzad Ossareh (Chair of Middle East Regional Board of ISN, Secretary General of IrSN), 4. Behrooz Broumand (Past President of IrSN), 5. Ghanbarali Raeisjalali (Iranian Nephrologist), 6. Mohammadali Shafiee (Iranian Nephrologist, Canada), 7. Jose Divino (Nephrologist, Brazil) The Iranian...

January 23, 2020Education, NewsRead more...

Access the latest ISN-ACT Global Trials

Every month the ISN-ACT Team lists interesting new randomized controlled trials from around the world. Highlights: Brace for it: an external support device may help fistulas to mature Getting things straight when it comes to peritoneal dialysis catheters See the latest trials here

January 21, 2020News, ResearchRead more...

Announcing the First Detlef Schlöndorff Fellow

In honor of the late influential nephrologist and former Editor of Kidney International Detlef Schlöndorff, ISN has set up the Detlef Schlöndorff Fellowship Fund to support training for one Fellow per year. The ISN congratulates Dr. Etienne Ntabanganyimana, from the Gihundwe Hospital in Rwanda, who has been selected as the first Detlef Schlöndorff Fellow by the ISN Fellowship...

January 21, 2020NewsRead more...

Simulation Certificate Course in Abu Dhabi

Given the steadily increasing demand for interventional nephrology in low and middle-income countries, the ISN, with generous support from Cleveland Clinic, will hold a simulation training session from 8 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. on Friday, March 27, 2020, in Abu Dhabi. The course focuses on learning and practicing procedures, such as central venous catheter placement,...

January 21, 2020NewsRead more...

Potassium homeostasis and management of dyskalemia in kidney diseases: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference

A multidisciplinary group of researchers and clinicians met in October 2018 to identify evidence and address controversies in potassium management providing research priorities and guidance for evaluation and management of dyskalemias in the context of kidney diseases.

January 21, 2020News, ResearchRead more...

Continuing Medical Education Program Improves Kidney Care in Colombia

In the second half of 2019, ISN led two meetings in Colombia providing education on pediatric and adult kidney transplantation and patient accessibility to renal transplantation services. The ISN-Transplant Society (TTS) Sister Transplant Center (STC) pair, Boston Children´s Hospital and ISN emerging center Fundación Valle del Líli in Cali, Colombia, held a meeting on the...

January 13, 2020Grants, NewsRead more...

Pathophysiology of the glomerulus: KI tells the story

To celebrate ISN’s 60th anniversary throughout 2020, Kidney International’s “Milestones in Nephrology” series launches with a review of the development in understanding of the pathophysiology of the glomerulus, highlighting several original articles published in KI: The glomerular signature in patients with hematuria (Kenneth F. Fairley and Douglas F. Birch, 1982); The permselectivity of the glomerular capillary wall (Ramsay L.S....

January 13, 2020Journals, NewsRead more...

ISN Anniversary Timeline Highlights 60 years of ISN Success and Impact

Celebrating ISN’s 60th anniversary, this online timeline spans six decades of ISN’s remarkable history of commitment to advancing kidney health worldwide. Follow ISN’s journey starting as a small community of visionaries with little funding to a global organization dedicated to improving kidney care worldwide through granting programs, education, research, and advocacy. At the advent of its seventh decade,...

January 10, 2020News, Society AffairsRead more...

Message from Vivek Jha, ISN President: Honoring the past & welcoming the future

Dear colleagues, The start of the new year provides us with the opportunity to look forward to the International Society of Nephrology's ongoing work, guided by its mission of advancing kidney health worldwide and the shared values of the ISN membership. ISN’s capacity building and educational activities have helped build a critical mass of appropriately skilled...

January 6, 2020NewsRead more...

Saving Young Lives (SYL) Renal Basic Life Support Training Course 2019

As part of the Saving Young Lives Project* a peritoneal dialysis (PD) training workshop was held at St John’s Medical College Hospital in Bengaluru, India, from November 15-16, 2019. The workshop aimed to empower pediatricians working in the community and in hospital settings with a skill-based approach to the management of a child with acute kidney...

December 16, 2019NewsRead more...

ISN Welcomes Two New Collective Societies

The Colombian Association of Nephrology and Arterial Hypertension (ASOCOLNEF) and the Paraguayan Society of Nephrology (SPN) have joined as ISN Collective Societies, further strengthening a mutual commitment to the advancement of nephrology in the Latin American region. Members of the SPN and ASOCOLNEF will enjoy the full benefits of ISN membership for a tailored fee. Collective Society status increases...

December 16, 2019NewsRead more...

New ISN-Alder Hey Paediatric Nephrology Fellowship: Call for Participants

ISN is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, United Kingdom, supporting one long-term Fellowship per year to train in pediatric nephrology. The collaboration seeks to contribute to the development of renal care in low and middle-income countries. To start with, candidates will need to establish a training plan with...

December 16, 2019NewsRead more...

Honoring the past, welcoming the future: ISN 60th anniversary

The celebratory activities to mark ISN’s 60th anniversary in 2020 have been launched. Throughout 2020, ISN will highlight past accomplishments, current projects, and future aspirations in its mission to advance kidney health worldwide. Some of the activities taking place in our 60th year are: a series of articles, “Milestones in Nephrology”, published in ISN journal Kidney International, highlighting 60 groundbreaking papers that...

December 16, 2019NewsRead more...

Educational Ambassador lectures on the nutritional management of CKD in Lima

As part of the Educational Ambassadors Program (EAP), the ISN supported Jaime Uribarri, from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, to spend one week in May 2019 as ISN Educational Ambassador to train staff at the Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara in Lima, Peru. The aim of the training was to increase knowledge about the nutritional management...

December 12, 2019Education, NewsRead more...

Launch of ISN-Swiss-Cameroon Program

The International Society of Nephrology (ISN), the Swiss Society of Nephrology (SSN), and the Cameroon Society of Nephrology (CASONEPH), launched a new partnership earlier this year to establish a joint program of the ISN, Yaoundé 1 University, and Geneva University. Dr James Tataw and Professor Patrick Saudan, from Geneva University, reported a successful start to the...

December 2, 2019NewsRead more...

ISN Scientific Writing Course held in India

The 2019 ISN Scientific Writing Course (SWC) was held from Sep 30 to Oct 2 in Delhi, India. This event, supported by the Indian Society of Nephrology, was delivered to nephrologists from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya, to enhance their scientific writing skills. Faculty at the three-day course included international and local experts in the...

November 26, 2019NewsRead more...

Support the Detlef Schlöndorff Fellowship Fund

The ISN is pleased to announce that it will be naming an ISN Fellowship in honor of Detlef Schlöndorff, MD, who died in October 2019. Detlef Schlöndorff was a prolific renal investigator for over five decades and active in multiple leadership roles within the ISN, including as editor in chief of the Kidney International (KI)....

November 26, 2019NewsRead more...