Despite global restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Sister Renal Centers (SRC) and Sister Transplant Centers (ISN-TTS STC) partnerships have continued to collaborate within the programs over the last few months through interactive webinars. Recordings of these sessions are available for ISN members on the ISN Academy. Health professionals at the University Hospital Center in...
The Malaysian Society of Nephrology (MSN) and the Korean Society of Nephrology (KSN) have joined the ISN as Collective Member Societies, further strengthening a mutual commitment to the advancement of kidney care in Asia. We sincerely thank the leadership of both societies (Drs. Gafor, Mishahar, and Bavannandan from MSN; and Drs. Yang and Kim...
The ISN will present a Joint Workshop Session at the 28th International Congress of The Transplantation Society (TTS) from 10:15 to 12:00 CET on September 15, 2020. Enjoying an ongoing collaboration with TTS, notably through the ISN-TTS Sister Renal Centers Transplant Program, the ISN is pleased to share its expertise in the session, Integrated Care...
Applications are open until October 31, 2020. Click here to apply The year-long ISN-ANIO Clinical Nephropathology Certificate Basic Program includes over 40 recorded online lectures and 12 live monthly webinars covering the main principles and practices of Nephropathology. Tuition fees are waived for trainees in MD, DNB, DM, or Ph.D. from low and lower-middle-income countries. Any questions...
Join the ISN and Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research from July 1-3, 2020 in Bergamo, Italy: ‘Complement-related kidney diseases: classification, genetics, and treatment.’ This specialty event connects experts and scientists engaged in rare diseases to focus on solutions for the optimal management of: atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) and C3 Glomerulopathies /Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis (C3G/MPGN) Key issues regarding diagnosis...
It is hard to imagine a stranger and more educative year than 2020. Humanity has lost a lot, hopefully we will rediscover our values - especially that global threats need global collaboration. The inequities around the world highlighted by this year's events make the ISN's mission of striving for equitable access to kidney care everywhere...
The city's infrastructure, including supplies and services to the Renal Community, has been severely damaged, recounts Dr. Sabine Karam one month after Beirut suffered a massive explosion of such strength that it was felt 150 miles away in Cyprus, killing 190 persons and injuring some 6,500 others. Dr. Karam, Head of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at...
Clinical Research Program Grant Recipient, Alao Michael Abel from Nigeria, presents a research project seeking to determine the community-based prevalence of CKD using cystatin C-based eGFR of the pediatric population in Ogbomoso, Southwest Nigeria in this video: See other Clinical Research success stories
The ISN Scientific Writing Course 2017 allowed young nephrologists from South Asia to improve their skills in designing and publishing clinical research in nephrology. The course consisted of a series of short lectures, writing exercises, and discussions. The sessions were designed to incorporate mentoring at every level of manuscript writing from abstract and methods to...
An ISN Continuing Medical Education (CME) course took place in Samoa as part of an initiative to strengthen ties between the ISN, the Asia Pacific Society of Nephrology (ASPN), the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN), and the National Kidney Foundation Samoa (NKFS). The aim was to provide valuable training to local doctors...
In 2018, an ISN Continuing Medical Education (CME) meeting was held in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, attended by medical students and professionals from Iran, Russia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, and Lithuania. The course, hosted by the head of the Tajik Society of Nephrology, Ahtam Sadikov, comprised 15 lectures with a question and answer session after...
Rea Judit Jerabekne Vegh (center right) demonstrating hemodialysis techniques to nurses at the Charak Memorial Hospital (CMH) in Nepal. Rea Judit Jerabekne Vegh, a registered nurse from Diaverum and Guys and St Thomas NHS Hospital in the UK, spent two weeks as an ISN Educational Ambassador at the Charak Memorial Hospital (CMH), in Pokhara, Nepal,...
ISN Educational Ambassadors, Ahmed Akl and Osama Ibrahim El Shahat, visited Belkas Central Hospital in Mansoura, Egypt, to share knowledge and experience with teams of young nephrologists at primary care health centers and hemodialysis satellite units in the country. Ahmed Akl is Nephrology Associate Professor at Fakeeh College of Medical Sciences, Jeddah, and KSA and...
Dr. Kar Hui Ng from the National University of Singapore In 2018, Dr. Yi Yi Khin, from Yangon Children’s Hospital (YCH) in Myanmar, organized an Educational Ambassador visit from Ambassador Kar Hui Ng from the National University of Singapore. Dr. Ng spent a week at the host center to give training in dialysis and transplantation...
Emerging Institution: Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Fiji; Supporting Institution: Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Australia. When the partnership was formed in 2014, the goal was to establish the first Nephrology service in Fiji, acting as a hub for the development of Nephrology in the Pacific Islands. Supported by the program, the hospital published a paper demonstrating that Fiji has one...
The ISN Sister Renal Center Tanzania-Canada partnership between the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Tanzania and the Queen’s University in Canada was awarded the Schrier Award in 2019 in recognition of the significant progress made through the collaboration. This pair availed of additional ISN Programs to build a strong and durable partnership, achieving...
Emerging Institution: Susana López de Valencia, Colombia; Supporting Institution: Fundación Valle del Lili (FVL), Colombia Mentoring Institution: Boston Children’s Hospital. The Sister Renal Centers Trio collaboration aimed to improve pediatric nephrology in the Southwest region of Colombia through training and initiatives. Through the program, staff from SLV visited Boston Children’s Hospital to receive training. The emerging center benefitted...
Emerging Institution: Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza Supporting Institution: Royal Liverpool University Hospital (RLUH) In 2013, a collaboration sponsored by the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers Program was established between a team from the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the UK and the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza permitting the transfer of skills, technology, and education. Al-Shifa is the largest hospital...
The ISN Fellowship Program prides itself in training physicians from emerging countries, with the ultimate goal of helping them improve the standards of care on a regional level. Since 1985, the ISN Fellowship Program has supported over 800 fellows from 90 countries. Our testimonies reveal how the program encourages professional fulfilment, ambition and aspiration, helping...
Victorine Bandolo Nzana, from Yaoundé University Teaching Hospital in Cameroon, was awarded an ISN-Salmasi Family Fellowship. Learning from staff at Chennai’s Madras Medical Mission Hospital in India, she broadened her knowledge of interventional nephrology, bridging the gaps in care for patients at the center and across the region. As a recognized ISN Training Center, the...
