This blog post is provided by Kirill Komissarov at the Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education in Minsk, Belarus. Fellows from the Charite Clinic University Clinic in Berlin, Germany spent a month with two fellows from the Minsk center thanks to an ISN Sister Renal Center partnership. Local medical professionals Aliaksandra Hashchuk is an intensivist and...
This week, ISN Education is sharing its latest resources on the topic of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). The team have added two new video presentations from the AKI & CRRT Conference 2015 held in San Diego, California last February. This year’s chosen theme was Updates in ICU Medicine: Controversies, Challenges and Solutions. In addition to this...
ISN Education is excited to put forward two videos on pathology tissue handling produced by Surya Seshan and her Electron Microscopy laboratory team at Weill Cornell Medicine. The videos demonstrate the tissue triaging procedure for renal needle core biopsies that are delivered in both fresh and fixed/preserved states to the laboratory, and expands on the...
Many thanks to everybody who took part in ISN's biennial World Congress of Nephrology (WCN). It was a great pleasure to host this congress in the wonderful city of Cape Town, South Africa. For those who were unable to attend the event, ISN Education has prepared this comprehensive reperitory of presentations that given during the Congress. We hope...
Registrations are now open for a course set up by SAMA, a non-profit professional organization of Sudanese American physicians. As part of its educational programs, it offers this annual comprehensive renal review course to consultants and trainees in Sudan in partnership with the Sudanese Nephrology Society. It covers aspects of basic renal physiology, electrolytes and...
With support from Fondazione della Comunità Bergamasca, Fluorseals SPA, and ISN, the Mario Negri Institute has run the Scientific Writing Academy (SWA) since 2012. The workshop helps physicians and researchers from a range of backgrounds and specializations fine-tune their writing skills. Achieving and maintaining high standards in science writing is crucial to advancing research as...
The global growth of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients has resulted in an increasing number surviving on renal replacement therapy. Hemodialysis remains a predominant form of renal replacement therapy. Providing optimal dialysis vascular access care remains a challenging task. The birth of interventional nephrology represents a field dedicated to understanding and treating complex vascular access...
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death and is rapidly becoming a global pandemic. Cancer patients with kidney disease have a worse prognosis with higher mortality and morbidity. The emergence of onconephrology represents a field dedicated to understanding and treating the complex renal problems that arise in cancer patients. The American Society of...
ISN Education webinars are a great was to stay up to date with the latest in nephrology. They are also a great way to spark discussion with others working in the field. Registration is now open to join the latest webinars in July and August. ISN Education organises short webinars of maximum 30 minutes, every...
ISN and the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN) have entered into an educational partnership agreement to promote and improve the understanding and management of clinical issues concerning dialysis access care. The ISN-ASDIN collaboration will focus through seminars, symposia, and exchange of educational materials to advance Interventional Nephrology worldwide. Interventional nephrology is a young and developing field...
ISN leaders Giuseppe Remuzzi, Guillermo Garcia Garcia and Motoko Yanagita have got involved in translating valuable educational material into Italian, Spanish and Japanese. This resource was released on World Kidney Day 2015 to show support for the overall theme for this year’s campaign: Kidney Health for All. All this information is available now at www.kidneyeducation.com. A...
At the end of March this year, following on from the World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) in Cape Town, we held an Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) symposium in Blantyre, Malawi. This was attended by 100 delegates (nurses, clinical officers and doctors) who work in hospitals and health centers around the Central and Southern region...
The latest Saving Young Lives training course on acute peritoneal dialysis re-emphasized the way forward for treating acute kidney injury in low-resource settings. Acute kidney injury (AKI) remains an under-appreciated problem worldwide. But in emerging countries, the avoidable loss of life is all the more striking because children and young adults are frequently affected. Mignon McCulloch, who...
We took time out with Adeera Levin to congratulate her on becoming the new ISN President and find out what is in store for ISN over the next two years. Adeera Levin is only the second female president in the history of ISN, and strongly hopes it won’t be another 40 years before the next...
We also seek applicants for one to three stipends, €1,000 each, generously supported by the International Summer School of Renal Pathology (ISSRP) (endorsed by the Renal Pathology Society, the International Society of Nephrology, the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association and the Italian Society of Nephrology), to defray part of the cost of...
The Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia (UBC) is pleased to offer a position in the Advanced Training in Nephrology Clinical Fellowship Program. Applications are open until April 20, 2015. This Fellowship is a post-certification program, and is open to those who have completed at least 2 years of nephrology in an accredited training...
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...
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...
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...
