Submit a short film to the ISN Community Film Event for the chance to connect with a global audience to highlight issues affecting kidney patients and those who care for them. A jury will select entries for screening during the ISN Community Film Event hosted during WCN’22. Shortlisted films will compete for the Best Film...
The Community Choice Film Selection presents a selection of the 2021 ISN Community Film Event entries that narrowly missed the shortlist. Watch the selection, get inspired by the stories, and vote for your favorite film here. Online voting will close on December 6, 2021. The 2022 Community Choice Film Selection winner will automatically become a finalist of the 2022 ISN...
The Nepal Society of Nephrology (NSN) has joined the ISN as a Collective-Member Society, strengthening a mutual commitment to advancing nephrology in the South Asia region. Alongside several other ongoing activities, the ISN has worked with the B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Nepal as part of the 0by25 Initiative to improve acute kidney...
Are you an ISN member looking to share your knowledge and experience with others to help shape the future of the global kidney community? Apply for these exciting leadership roles by Tuesday, September 21, 2021: i3C (International Consortium CKDu Collaborators) Working Group, Deputy Chair ISN-ACT (Advancing Clinical Trials) Committee, Deputy Chair CPC (Core Programs Committee), Deputy Chair CME (Continuing...
Join Mallika Mendu, Simon Davies, Daniel Gallego, and Vivekananad Jha on October 28, 2021, at 2.30 p.m. CEST to address the main findings of the International Home Dialysis Roundtable, including best practices, successful strategies, and overcoming challenges in home dialysis. Register for the webinar here. Read the paper "Expanding Utilization of Home Dialysis: An Action Agenda...
The International Home Dialysis Roundtable (IHDR; funded by Baxter) recently drafted an action plan to highlight the significant economic, quality-of-life, and clinical advantages of using home dialysis rather than in-center hemodialysis. They recommend four key areas to promote home dialysis: Read the full IHDR action agenda here. The ISN stands by the IHDR recommendations in line with...
Access the latest companion to ISN Journals here. This quarter's eDigest presents a selection of papers from Kidney International addressing genetic kidney conditions and articles from the Kidney International Reports September issue on disease patterns and treatment advances for patients with nephrotic syndrome and its related conditions.
The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the WHO Discussion Paper: Draft recommendations to strengthen and monitor diabetes responses within national noncommunicable disease programmes, including potential targets and on the document Improving Health Outcomes of People with Diabetes Mellitus: Target Setting to Reduce the Global Burden of Diabetes...
The American Society of Nephrology (ASN), the European Renal Association (ERA), and the International Society of Nephrology(ISN) are pleased to announce the second webinar in their joint webinar series on Kidney Ethics. Join Professor Dominique Martin, Professor Raymond Vanholder, and Dr Mehmet Sukru Sever on Inequalities in Uptake of Kidney Care: An Ethical Challenge on September...
The ISN is pleased to announce the second Detlef Schlöndorff Fellowship recipient, Ahmad Naseer Kaihan. Ahmad Naseer Kaihan will travel from his home center, the Payem Sehat Hospital in Afghanistan, to the MGM Healthcare Center in India. He will spend 12 months training in clinical nephrology under supervision from Georgi Abraham and then return to his home...
The ISN and the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research will present: “New Insights into Clinical Management of Complement-mediated Thrombotic Microangiopathies” on September 17, 2021, at 2 p.m. CEST REGISTER NOW The webinar will address: Identifying patients with complement-mediated TMA The impact of genetic and biochemical characterization Treatment recommendations Clinical perspectives of emerging complement inhibitors The webinar supports the ISN Frontiers Meeting “Complement-related...
The 41st Annual Meeting of the Korean Society of Nephrology (KSN) took place virtually from September 2-5, 2021. The ISN and the KSN held a joint session at the event: ‘Towards Global Network for Kidney Health Care’ and included the following talks: Past-President Vivek Jha: Introduction of the ISN-GKHA project Jongha Park: Korean Renal Data System (KoRDS)...
Globally, 10.5 million people have advanced kidney disease, and the number is growing by 5-7% annually. Access to life-saving treatments such as kidney transplants and dialysis, however, is far from universal. Patients dependent on dialysis are more commonly treated in a clinic with in-center hemodialysis (HD) rather than through home HD (HHD) or peritoneal dialysis...
Join the latest #NephTrials discussion on September 28, 2021, at 9 p.m. EST. The conversation will focus on Aldosterone bloCkade for Health Improvement EValuation in End-stage Renal Disease (ACHIEVE), which evaluates if spironolactone reduces heart failure and heart-related deaths in dialysis patients. The #NephTrials initiative is an exciting series of conversations combining expertise from the ISN-ACT...
The VI Congress of Nephrologists of Ukraine will take place in Kiev, Ukraine, on September 23-24, 2021. Jointly organized by the Institute of Nephrology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Association of Nephrologists and Kidney Transplant Specialists, and the National Kidney Fund of Ukraine, one of the plenary sessions will...
The 2021 WIN Leadership Conference: Developing Future Leaders in Nephrology, hosted by Women in Nephrology, will be held virtually on September 24, 2021. ISN President Agnes Fogo will provide the keynote address ‘My Path to President: From Research to Leadership’ from 10:10-10:50 a.m. CST.
The 16th International Symposium on IgA Nephropathy will take place virtually from September 21-23, 2021. ISN President, Agnes Fogo, will chair Plenary Session 10, ‘IgAN: A Global Perspective’ on September 23, 2021, from 11:10-11:55 a.m. CEST. The symposium will focus on pathogenesis, pathology, and treatment of IgA nephropathy. The program highlights the current discussion on pathogenetic...
The ISN and the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research will hold the first of two webinars on September 17, 2021, at 2 p.m. CEST on: “New Insights into Clinical Management of Complement-mediated Thrombotic Microangiopathies” The webinar will address: Identifying patients with complement-mediated TMA The impact of genetic and biochemical characterization Treatment recommendations Clinical perspectives of emerging complement inhibitors Register for...
In August 2021, the Renal Association of Mauritius announced on social media that the Mauritian Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) had recognized nephrology as a separate specialty from internal medicine in Mauritian hospitals. This momentous decision was initiated in response to the dedicated work of many stakeholders over several decades and the Renal...
The ISN Sister Renal Centers (SRC) Program helps improve treatment and outcomes for patients with kidney diseases in low-resource settings. Discover how global partnerships between health centers have made remarkable improvements in kidney care through the SRC Program here. Read the application guidelines and apply here. The deadline is October 1, 2021. The Sister Transplant Centers...
