Nephrologists under 35 who are ISN members can win a free pass to the 40th Vicenza Course on acute kidney injury (AKI) and critical care in nephrology. As part of the ISN’s collaboration with this internationally-renowned scientific course, two complimentary registrations are available for the 2022 edition dedicated to acute kidney injury (AKI) and continuous renal...
ISN NIS & Russia Regional Board Chair, Abduzhappar Gaipov with Valdemir Kim, one of the recipients of the best abstract award By Abduzhappar Gaipov Despite COVID-19-related restrictions, the Kazakhstan Society of Nephrologists, Dialysis, and Transplant Physicians held its 5th Annual National Congress from November 20-21, 2021, in hybrid mode, in Nur-Sultan city, the capital of Kazakhstan....
By Siah Kim (Australia), Member, Young Nephrologists Committee WCN'22 is just around the corner, and the Young Nephrologists Committee is thrilled to invite all young nephrologists (and the young at heart!) to a program packed with exciting events planned with you in mind. On Friday, February 25 at 18:00 MYT, we kick off the Young Nephrologists...
By Siddiq Anwar, ISN Young Nephrologists Committee and Middle East Regional Board member End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) management has become a huge economic burden even in industrialized countries. In the USA, there are 750 000 Medicare members with ESRD, that's 1% of the Medicare population that costs $42 billion per year – almost 10% of...
By Marina Wainstein, ISN YNC chair As we say farewell to what has been another year of unsettling adversity, we search ahead for calmer seas and opportunities to reconnect with colleagues and friends to nurture our shared passion for kidney care. There has never been a more important time to engage with global nephrology, to understand...
Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, still experiencing the consequences of a devastating blast more than one year on Sabine Karam, deputy chair of the Young Nephrologists Committee and Ali Abu-Alfa, chair of ISN-Middle East Regional Board and president of the Lebanese Society of Nephrology and Hypertension Over the past two years, Lebanon...
Alexia Romero placing a tunneled catheter for hemodialysis during one of her shifts at the Hospital Civil of Guadalajara By Alexia Romero My name is Alexia Romero, and I am a nephrology resident at the Hospital Civil of Guadalajara, a 1,200-bed tertiary care center in Mexico. At the start of a new day in the nephrology ward,...
Alexandra CAMBIER, YNC member, associate professor of pediatric nephrology (MD-PhD), Sainte Justine Hospital, Montréal University Université de Paris, Paris, France ; Centre de Recherche sur L'inflammation (CRI); INSERM U1149, Paris, France IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is one of the most common forms of primary glomerulonephritis in children and adolescents worldwide [1]. In more than fifty percent of...
YNC Chair Marina Wainstein and Deputy Chair Sabine Karam The Young Nephrologists Committee (YNC) was launched in 2007 to understand and evaluate the needs of young nephrologists worldwide to develop opportunities for them within the ISN. From the 11 founding members to the 24 current ones—including two allied health professionals and one Emerging Leaders Program (ELP)...
Gavin Dreyer – Outgoing YNC Chair The last two years as the Young Nephrologists Committee (YNC) chair have been the highlight of my professional career. It is hard to describe the joy I feel chairing meetings and leading such an exceptional committee of young nephrologists. The diversity of the committee, now including members of the...
The YNC is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Young Nephrologists Awards: Dr. Julian A. Marschner (Germany) - best basic science abstract, “A kidney-on-the-chip approach using primary human tubular cells in a 3D co-culture system.” Dr. Marschner is currently completing postdoctoral work developing complex in vitro assays to gain mechanistic insights into processes of...
Dr. Sanjib Sharma and his team at one of several events involving healthcare workers, politicians, and patients to educate and raise awareness of the KCN in Nepal In 2013, the ISN launched the 0by25 Initiative to eliminate preventable deaths from AKI worldwide by 2025. The burden and management of AKI worldwide were initially assessed through an...
The Young Nephrologist Committee will host a Spotlight Webinar “Spotlight on Young Nephrologists: ISN opportunities to shape the future of global kidney health,” presenting exciting avenues for personal development, scientific growth, and career advancement through ISN activities. The webinar, which takes place at 4 p.m. on February 10, 2021, will host four remarkable global nephrology...
The ISN values its young members and welcomed the many powerful and inspiring first-hand accounts it received from different world regions that demonstrated what it meant to be a young nephrologist in 2020: From January, the ISN Young Nephrologists Committee worked alongside the ISN Research Working Group to present “Breakthrough Discoveries,” 60 + 1 globally...
The Emerging Leaders Program (ELP), a new ISN initiative launched earlier this year, announced its first cohort in November. The ELP is an initiative bringing together outstanding individuals to work on different aspects of leadership to impact the global kidney health agenda through collaborative projects aligned with ISN’s mission and vision. The ISN received 71 applications,...
My name is Tatiara Bueno. I graduated in nephrology in 2012, at the age of 28. My academic training took place in Londrina – PR, Brazil. After finishing my studies, I moved to Porto Velho - Rondônia, in the Western Amazon, in the North of Brazil. Here, in a capital with almost half a million...
The ISN is pleased to announce three winners of complimentary registrations to the upcoming 38th Vicenza Course on acute kidney injury (AKI) and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). Selected by the ISN Young Nephrologists Committee, the ISN congratulates the following winners: Kristiane Rachel P Medina (Philippines) Fong Voon Ken (Malaysia) Enzo Christopher Vasquez Jimenes (Mexico) The Vicenza Course, postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will now take place in a...
Issa Al Salmi, from Oman, a member of the ISN Young Nephrologist Committee (YNC) as well as the Local Organizing Working group of the WCN 2020 in Abu Dhabi, was recently awarded the prestigious Editors' Choice award by the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) for his research into the international variation, predictors, and...
With support from the ISN Young Nephrologists Committee, ISN members recently took part in the 37th Vicenza course on acute kidney injury (AKI) and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). A valuable opportunity for members of the ISN community to make worthwhile contacts while learning more about issues affecting their patients. The ultimate goal for this...
ISN Educational Ambassadors, Ahmed Akl and Osama Ibrahim El Shahat visited Belkas Central Hospital in Mansoura, Egypt. Once again, they shared knowledge and experience with teams of young nephrologists at primary care health centers and hemodialysis satellites units in the country. Ahmed Akl is Nephrology Associate Professor at Fakeeh College of Medical Sciences, Jeddah and...
