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Membership
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Celebrating
ISN Collective-Member
Societies:
The Korean
Society of Nephrology
Throughout 2021, the ISN is
presenting its Collective-Member
Societies through a series
of interviews. As part of the
current focus on the ISN South Asia
region, we spoke to the
President of the Korean Society
of Nephrology (KSN),
Professor Chul Woo Yang, about
KSN's recent initiatives to advance
kidney health.
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To mark World Kidney Day,
the KSN developed an online program,
"Kidney Keeper Week," to highlight the
importance of kidney health and
promoted the event through local media
outlets, encouraging patients to take
the #MyGr8Rule
challenge. In addition, the KSN
started a YouTube Channel for the
general public to raise kidney health
awareness locally throughout the year.
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Events
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Announcing
Distinguished Plenary Speakers
Presenting on a Range of
Engaging Topics at WCN'22
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Green Technologies in
Dialysis/Green Nephrology
Frances Mortimer,
Medical Director at the Center for
Sustainable Healthcare, Oxford, UK.
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Advocacy for (Kidney)
Disease: Patient View and How
to Get Results
Alonzo Mourning,
Co-Founder of Mourning Family
Foundation, South Florida.
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 Human
Genome Editing, Ethics and
Global Concerns
Indira Nath,
former Founder Head and Senior
Professor of Department of
Biotechnology at the All India
Institute of Medical Sciences, New
Delhi.
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 Nanotechnology,
DNA Self-Assembly, and New
Medical Therapies
Hao Yan,
Milton D. Glick Distinguished
Professor in Chemistry and
Biochemistry and Director of the
Center for Molecular Design and
Biomimetics in the Biodesign
Institute at Arizona State
University, Arizona.
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Find out more about the WCN'22
featured speakers here.
WCN'22 will be held from
February 24-27, 2022.
Find out more here.
Abstract Submission is
open.
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Powerful
Stories Raise Awareness:
Submit
Your Story to the ISN Community
Film Event
The ISN
Community Film Event
offers an opportunity to
showcase real-world experience
to engage an audience on kidney
health issues.
Watch
the 2021 finalists here.
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ISN members
are invited to film an account of
people living with or treating
patients with kidney diseases:
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How have your patients
coped with a kidney disease
diagnosis?
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How have you cared for
someone with kidney
disease?
The deadline for
submissions is December 8,
2021.
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Watch the
Community Choice Film Selection
and Cast Your Vote
The 2022 Community
Choice Film Selection
presents engaging narratives
that narrowly missed out on
becoming finalists in the ISN
Community Film Event.
The selection offers an additional
opportunity for the films to bring
to public attention the challenges
experienced by kidney disease
patients and the healthcare
professionals who care for them.
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The 2022 Community Choice Film
Selection winner will
automatically become a 2022 ISN
Community Film Event finalist.
Online voting will close on
December 6, 2021.
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ISN Participates
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Paper on
Kidney Biopsy Codes Published
BMC Nephrology has
published a paper on
coding practice in
national and regional kidney
biopsy registries.
The paper gives an overview of
kidney biopsy registries, explores
how kidney diseases are coded, and
demonstrates the need to improve
coding practice.
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Grants
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Sister
Renal Centers' Workshop -
Supporting Partnerships
Worldwide
The Sister Renal
Centers (SRC) Committee
held a workshop for SRC pairs
currently at level A or B on the
SRC Program on Thursday,
May 20, 2021.
SRC Committee
Chairs Marcelo Orias and Chih-Wei
Yang hosted the workshop attended
by 22 SRC partnerships and 55
participants.
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The workshop provided a platform
for those involved in the SRC
Program to receive support and
encouragement from a network of
health care professionals
confronting similar challenges and
working toward the same goals.
Participants exchanged experiences
of the difficulties as well as
creative problem-solving and best
practices during pandemic
conditions.
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Advance
Nephrology in Your Region with
the ISN Educational Ambassadors
Program
Does your center need expert
guidance to develop:
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new
initiatives,
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community-based
research, or
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skills or
services,
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screening
programs?
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The ISN welcomes applications for the
Educational
Ambassadors (EA) Program.
We can connect you with a suitable
expert to develop and deliver a
relevant training program tailored
to your needs.
Find out how an EA visit
can positively impact your
health center by reading about
recent collaborations here.
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Advocacy
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The article supports the recently
launched Kidney Health 2021
Campaign initiated by Health
Awareness, a Mediaplanet website
dedicated to news, information, and
personal stories.
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The DICG
Launches Course on the
Declaration of Istanbul
and Ethical Issues in
Transplantation
Experts in the field of organ
trafficking and transplant
tourism will guide
participants through important
aspects of the Declaration of
Istanbul (DOI), the role of the
Declaration of Istanbul
Custodian Group (DICG), and
ethical issues in
transplantation.
Access the complete
course by creating a free
account.
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This is a valuable course to equip
nephrologists to identify and
address cases of transplant tourism
and illegal organ donations and
help increase effective and ethical
transplantation practices around
the world.
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EDUCATION
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Enjoy the
Virtual WCN’21 Experience on
the ISN Academy
Almost 100 sessions and over 300
talks from Virtual WCN'21
are now accessible to ISN members
and non-members on the ISN Academy.
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Premium Access offers
unlimited access to all sessions. The
Standard Access
package allows sessions to be purchased
by theme. Full details of prices and
sessions within each package are
available here.
Read more here.
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Register
for the Second Virtual Grand
Rounds in Pediatric Nephrology
Join us for the second Grand
Rounds in Pediatric
Nephrology on
Friday,
June 25, 2021, at
3 p.m. CEST:
Make the peritoneal
membrane work for you
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This session on optimizing
PD focuses on a case
study involving a seven-year-old
girl with primary steroid-resistant
nephrotic syndrome secondary to
focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
that progressed rapidly to
end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).
The webinar will demonstrate:
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Optimizing ultrafiltration
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Assessing and optimizing solute
clearance on PD
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Assessment of the membrane by
the PET
A recording of the Grand
Rounds will be open-access and
available on the ISN Academy.
Watch the previous edition here.
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Explore
the ISN - KDIGO CKD Early
Identification and Intervention
Toolkit
Access user-friendly guides,
infographics, teaching tools,
articles, and webinars to
support the early
identification and intervention
of chronic kidney diseases.
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Additional open-access tools coming
soon, including regional-specific
materials, PCP- and AHP- specific
materials, and a podcast.
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Tuesday,
June 29, 3 p.m. CEST
ISN-ISTH
Webinar:
Thrombotic
Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)
- Supporting Implementation of
the ISTH Guidelines
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Speakers:
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Flora
Peyvandi, Italy
Jai
Radhakrishnan,
USA
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Moderator:
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Ike
Okpechi, Canada
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Wednesday,
June 30, 3 p.m. CEST
@ISNeducation
Webinar:
Monoclonal
Gammopathy of Renal
Significance - Clinical
Perspective
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Speaker:
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Arzu
Velioglu,
Turkey
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Moderator:
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Serhan
Tuglular,
Turkey
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Monday,
July 5, 4 p.m. CEST
ISN-SEN
Webinar:
Síndrome
CardioRenal: Más Allá de la
Creatinina (in Spanish)
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Speakers:
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Maria
Dolores
Salmerón
Rodriguez,
Spain
Marco
Montomoli,
Spain
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Moderator:
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Gregorio
Romero-Gonzalez,
Spain
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ISN-ISPD
Webinar:
ISPD
Guidelines for PD in
Acute Kidney Injury
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ISN-IFKF
Webinar:
Spotlight
on World Kidney Day -
Prevention of Chronic
Kidney Disease
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COVID-19
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Kidney International
(KI) on COVID-19
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Kidney International
Reports (KIR) on
COVID-19
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Kidney International Editorial
Selection
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Updating
the International IgA
Nephropathy Prediction Tool for
Use in Children
Although IgA nephropathy (IgAN)
is a frequent cause of
glomerulonephritis in children,
personalized risk-based
treatment decisions are limited
due to the absence of a method
to predict disease progression.
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The authors updated the adult
International IgAN Prediction Tool
for use in children using a
multi-ethnic international cohort
of 1,060 children with IgAN
followed into adulthood and
demonstrate here its accurate
prediction of the risk of a 30%
decline in eGFR or ESKD in children
with IgAN.
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Kidney International
Reports Editorial
Selection
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Dialysis
Vascular Access
Training: A
Nicaraguan
Experience
This editorial
outlines the rapid
growth of patients
in Nicaragua who
are undergoing
chronic
hemodialysis
because of the high
incidence of
Mesoamerican
nephropathy in the
Pacific Coast
region and the
consequent
implementation of a
vascular
access–focused
strategy to make
treatment viable
and cost-effective.
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The article
highlights the
ISN's role in
identifying the
shortage of
personnel skilled
in creating and
managing dialysis
access and the need
to equip local
healthcare
professionals with
appropriate skills.
A summary of the
ISN's development
of modular training
initiatives to
address these
deficits is
included.
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