The call is now open for the ISN-ANIO Indukaka Ipcowala Apprenticeship program. This program gives an opportunity to physicians or allied healthcare personnel to train and gain by practical experience specific skills in any field of nephrology, including but not limited to renal pathology, chronic kidney disease, transplantation, or dialysis. To find out if you are...
The ISN-ANIO India Committee is happy to announce that the call for its Clinical Nephropathology Certificate Program is now open. Deadline for applications is January 15th, 2014. This program is aimed at pathologists and nephrologists seeking training in the principles and practice of nephropathology from all around the world. However, applicants from India, as well...
The ISN Global Outreach (GO) Fellowship Program has now launched a new Facebook page for all past and current fellows to share their experiences and photos with each other. If you have been involved in the ISN GO Fellowship Program or are interested in joining this program then you can join the community page HERE.
The role of peritoneal dialysis (PD) to treat patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) is currently being re-examined. This has occurred for several reasons. First, the recent experiences from Brazil have indicated that PD provides outcomes that are comparable to those of daily hemodialysis (HD). Secondly, there has been an expanding use of PD to...
The XVII Congresso Paulista de Nefrologia was recently hosted in Atibaia, Brazil. The meeting is the annual meeting of Sociedado de Nefrologia do Estado de Sao Paulo (SONESP), a major meeting for the Brazilian Society of Nephrology (BSN), and includes physicians, nurses, dieticians and other allied health professionals. The opening ceremonies included a formal presentation...
The first world treatment of multiple organ failure in a neonatal patient of 3 Kg was carried out in Vicenza Italy, with an innovative equipment called CARPEDIEM (Cardio Renal Pediatric Dialysis Emergency machine). Acute Kidney Injury may occur in neonatal patients due to several causes. This infant had a hemorrhagic shock due to a complicated...
La Paz, Bolivia was the location for the first meeting for a global initiative on Acute Kidney Failure (AKF) between ISN and Sociedad LatinoAmericana de Nefrologia y Hipertension (SLANH). Representatives from several authorities took part in this meeting on October 2, 2013. These included SLANH President Juan Fernández, SLANH Committee Representative for AKF Emmanuel Burtman, ISN President...
The UN High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda recently released its report (CLICK HERE), which identifies reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as priority. The Lancet Series on Global Kidney Disease highlights the increasing burden of chronic kidney disease worldwide. The 2011 report of the WHO General Assembly on NCDs also identified chronic...
ISN Past President John Feehally will receive the ANIO special service award at the ANIO annual dinner taking place this November at Kidney Week in Atlanta, Georgia. This award will recognize John Feehally’s contributions in advancing nephrology education, science, and clinical care in India. He is a founding member and currently chair of the ISN-ANIO...
At the request of Zhihong Liu, President of the Chinese Society of Nephrology (CSN), I was invited to give the opening plenary lecture at the CSN, held in Fuzhou, China. I also gave a introduction about ISN, including our focus program, 0 by 25, at the start of the session. The CSN was attended by 5,500...
The ISN Global Outreach (GO) Research and Prevention (R&P) Program offers research and educational programs in low-middle-income countries to bridge the gap in kidney research and patients care worldwide. In September, a scientific writing course at the Mario Negri Institute in Bergamo, Italy sought to increase kidney research in developing countries. The course took participants through...
Magdalen College, Oxford will be the location for a IgA Nephropathy meeting taking place from June 25 to 26, 2014. The event is organized by the International IgA Nephropathy Network with the endorsement of ISN and the Renal Pathology Society. The aim of the meeting will be to review the Oxford Classification of IgA...
Last week I went to South America, and I was in Bolivia and Chile. In Santiago, I met Luis Fernando Michea, at the Chronic Kidney Disease Research Center (CKDRC). This is a research facility where physician researchers, pharmacologists, and basic scientists are working together in really close contact on a number of projects. Their efforts...
This summer, the Saving Young Lives project organized its first training session in Ghana, both in the centers of Accra and Kumasi. The Saving Young Lives project is a partnership between ISN, IPNA and ISPD and SKCF seeking to develop acute peritoneal dialysis program in hospital centers across Africa and South East Asia. Last year, a...
I had the great honor to participate, as one of the invited speakers, in the recent ISN Forefronts meeting on “Stem Cells and Kidney Regeneration” which was held September 12–15,2013 in beautiful Florence, Italy. The organizers Drs. Paola Romagnani and Ben Humphreys, with the help of the wonderful ISN Conference team, put together an excellent...
Florence was the venue for the most recent ISN Forefronts Symposium which focussed on Stem Cells and Kidney Regeneration. Organized by Professors Paola Romagnani and Benjamin Humphreys, leaders in the field from both Italy and the US, the meeting opened with seminal presentations about the processes of reprogramming and regeneration across all species as...
A remarkable ISN Forefronts Symposium entitled, “Stem Cells and Kidney Regeneration”, was held in Florence, Italy, from September 12 to 15, 2013. The speakers were assembled worldwide from laboratories and clinics in the forefront of research extending from very basic investigations to clinical trials. The entire field was propelled forward by the discovery that somatic...
This was a well-organized outstanding meeting on a timely topic: The role of stem cells and kidney regeneration. Virtually all invited speakers were carefully selected outstanding scientists from all over the world, who represented a well balanced cross-section of the field. My personal highlights were talks on regeneration in different organ systems (e.g. in muscle...
It is with regret that we announce the death of Hugh de Wardener on September 29, 2013 (ISN President 1969-1972). He was 97 years old. Hugh Edward de Wardener was born October 8, 1915 in France of American parents. He was educated in England and took on British citizenship as a medical student to avoid...
ISN’s Global Outreach Program Chair shares how he has seen the programs grow from strength to strength. William Couser has now completed 12 years on the ISN Executive Committee including 6 years as Chair of the ISN Global Outreach (GO) Programs. As he passes on his duties to ISN Past President John Feehally, it is...
