The ISN congratulates 22 new 2019 Fellows after the second round of applications. The successful applicants come from all over the globe: Africa, Latin America, NIS and Russia, and South Asia. The ISN fellowship program http://fellowship.theisn.org/ provides tailor-made training from host institutions to health care professionals from low-resource countries. The Fellows aim to improve kidney health care...
ISN was well represented at the 15th Congress of AFRAN which was recently held in Mombasa. The ISN President, Professor Vivek Jha, as well as numerous other leaders and members of the ISN community were in attendance. This congress, jointly organized by the African Association of Nephrology (AFRAN) and the African Pediatric Nephrology Association (AFPNA),...
OBITUARY Nephrology community remembers Detlef Schlöndorff Detlef Schlöndorff, MD, died of pancreatic cancer in New York City on October 16, 2019, surrounded by his family. He was a prolific renal investigator for over five decades, training and mentoring over 50 fellows from around the globe, including some of the current world leaders in academic nephrology. He...
Angie Aguilar-Gonzalez, an ISN-H4KH new investigator, focused her research on an area in Guatemala with high incidences of renal disease of unknown cause. Given the high variability of fluid intake across the globe and the health consequences of these variations, she chose to measure hydration patterns and renal function markers in a group of children...
Fergus Caskey represented the Executive Committee at the 15th BANTAO Congress in Skopje, North Macedonia, that took place in September. Dr. Caskey presented Halima Resic with the ISN 2019 Pioneer Award in recognition of her research into the effects of frailty and depression on the nutritional status of hemodialysis patients. In addition to her roles...
Source: Kidney International Kitty J. Jager, Csaba Kovesdy, Robyn Langham, Mark Rosenberg, Vivekanand Jha, Carmine Zoccali Abstract On a world scale the total number of individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD), acute kidney injury (AKI), and those on renal replacement therapy (RRT) exceeds 850 million, a truly concerning figure that is twice the estimated number of people with...
As part of a partnership with the Indonesian Society of Nephrology (PERNEFRI) aiming to increase access to integrated kidney care programs in Indonesia, the ISN and PERNEFRI have launched an initiative towards achieving ‘Centers of Excellence’ in Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) across Indonesia’s 13 geographically-diverse districts. 13 key institutions (one in each district) have been...
ISN Ex-President David Harris and Oceania and South East Asia Regional Board Chair Adrian Liew traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia on June 27th, 2019 to co-facilitate a one-day stakeholder meeting together with the Indonesian Society of Nephrology (PERNEFRI) with the goal of developing a roadmap for integrated kidney care in Indonesia. The meeting included 54...
As part of the ISN’s capacity building partnership with the Indonesian Society of Nephrology (PERNEFRI), 2 doctors from Mohammad Hoesin General Hospital in Palembang, Indonesia (West Indoniesa) participated in a 2.5-day workshop held at Hospital Tuanku Ja’afar Seremban in Malaysia in June 2019. The Masterclass included a comprehensive training in standard operating procedure, management of complications...
ISN urges member states to truly uphold to their commitment to ‘leave no-one behind’. On NCDs, the declaration stresses mainly 5 disease groups without recognising that 55% of the global NCD burden arises from other NCDs, which often co-exist with and amplify the morbidity of the big 5. With 850.000.000 people affected worldwide,...
Dr. Rolando Claure Del Granado, Kidney Care Network (KCN) Project Lead in Bolivia, joined Dr. Raúl Plata, Regional Councilor of the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension (SLANH) at the Ministry of Health in La Paz on September 10th to meet with Dr. Adolfo Zarate, Head of the National Kidney Health Program and his...
As part of the Kidney Care Network project, a two-day acute kidney injury (AKI) training was held in Santarém at the NACE-NUMETROP regional hospital on May 13-14, 2019 with approximately 30 healthcare workers, among which nurses, doctors, internal medicine residents and medical/nurse graduate students from 4 health care centers in the Amazonian state of...
As part of the Kidney Care Network (KCN) project, mini acute kidney injury (AKI) trainings ran by ISN reverse fellow Martyn Fredlund took place across rural hospitals in the Northeast region of South Africa throughout June and July 2019. Healthcare workers, among which nurses, doctors, internal medicine residents and medical/nurse graduate students across 10...
Given the ISN’s core mission of advancing worldwide kidney health, it is essential that it has a presence and voice at those key events that are shape global health policy. Few organizations are as influential as the United Nations. From September 17–24, 2019, the UN will hold its General Assembly in New York. Here,...
The ISN-KI Editorial Fellowship will be awarded annually by ISN in conjunction with Kidney International (KI) to two ISN members who are early-career researchers in nephrology, dialysis or kidney transplantation. The 2019-20 ISN-KI Editorial Fellowship winners are Dr. Anna Francis, a pediatric nephrologist at Queensland Children Hospital and post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Sydney,...
ISN President Vivekanand Jha and Executive Director Charu Malik will attend the upcoming 18th Latin American Congress on Nephrology and Hypertension organized by the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension and the Peruvian Society of Nephrology in Lima on September 12-15 2019. Prof Jha will present the ISN Pioneer Award for Latin America to Dr Edgar...
This second edition of the ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas (GKHA) 2019 focuses on improving understanding of the regional burden of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and the capacity for care delivery. The latest findings will help encourage relevant stakeholders across countries and regions to advocate for improved access to and quality of kidney care. The...
In June, ISN attended the 11th Hydration for Health (H4H) conference in Evian, France. ISN President Vivekanand Jha presented highlights on the Hydration for Kidney Health (H4KH) initiative, an ISN activity in partnership with Danone Nutricia Research, as well as on ISN’s global activities. Adeera Levin provided an overview of the results of the 2019...
The International Society of Nephrology is very concerned about the current state of negotiations on the Political Declaration for the first United Nations High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UN HLM on UHC). Kidney disease, which affects over 850.000 million people worldwide, is the 11th leading cause of death globally and is projected to become...
Kidney International (KI) is pleased to announce the publication of a study on hypertension, led by the ISN iNET-CKD (International Network of chronic kidney disease cohort studies). This study highlights considerable international variation in hypertension control and treatment in chronic kidney disease (CKD). The new study from the ISN iNET-CKD highlights substantial variation in the prevalence...
