Global Kidney Care Podcast Provided by ISN

World Kidney Day (WKD ) is observed every year on the Second Thursday of March. In 2023, it falls on March 14th and aims to advocate for Kidney Health for All! Professor Alessandro Balducci, co-chair of the WKD Joint Steering Committee, is joined in this episode by WKD Joint Steering Committee members Dr. Dina Abdellatif, Dr. Ricardo Correa-Rotter, and Dr. Katherine Tuttle, the Executive Director...

Recently the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation (PKDF) held a joint webinar to discuss and explore the significant impact of health disparities on the outcomes for patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD). In the latest episode of the Global Kidney Care Podcast, Dr. Maria E. Diaz-Gonzalez de Ferris, Dr. Sambhavi Krishnam...

This re-published episode was originally published in 2015 and is hosted by Jack Milln and he takes a look at Uganda and how kidney disease has affected the lives of the people in this country. It also touches on the hardships of relying on expensive treatment options in a resource-poor country.  The developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa are under threat by an emerging epidemic of kidney dise...

In the first ever podcast collaboration between ISN and ASON; Raad Chowdhury hosts a panel of Fellows in discussing an Onconephrology Case with an electrolyte twist. 

Augusto Cesar Santos Jr MD, FASN, FISN has a discussion with Peter Kotanko, MD, FASN on the intersection of nephrology and artificial intelligence (AI). They discuss how AI is being used in the field of nephrology, what the future holds, and the potential pitfalls of this new and ever changing technology.

Physical activity is crucial for patients with kidney disease to maintain independence and an optimal quality of life.   This episode of the Global Kidney Care Podcast covers topics related to physical activity and kidney disease, Professor Paul Bennett, RN PhD FISN Deputy Head (Research), SONM, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia and a member of the ISN Kidney Health Professionals Working...

Kidneyeducation.com was founded by the Nephrologist Dr Sanjay Pandya with the mission to educate patients and their families about kidney care across all boundaries for the prevention of kidney disease. Today provides content in over 40 languages presented by nephrologists and other healthcare providers.    Dr Tushar Vachharajani, former chair of the ISN Education Working Group interviews Dr Pandy...

Fergus Caskey, chair of the ISN Research Working Group, interviews ISN President Masaomi Nangaku and immediate Past President Agnes Fogo on the first guidance for the optimal conduct of translational animal studies for developing new drugs to treat kidney disease.   Read the guidance in Kidney International here .     Agnes Fogo discusses the inspiration for and aim of the meeting: to guide improv...

Michele Provenzano and Daniel O'Hara, coordinators of the ISN-ACT Global Trials F ocus (GTF)*, interview international trial experts and ISN-ACT (Advancing Clinical Trials) chair and deputy chair Meg Jardine and Adeera Levin.   Get involved in international clinical trials: Join the ISN-ACT Network here .   Meg Jardine talks about some of the clinical trials she's been involved in, barriers to ove...

Manjusha Yadla, Professor and Head, Nephrology Gandhi Medical College is the host of this episode and is joined by co-hosts Milagros Flores, Ivan Rodriguez from Mexico and Srikanth Bathini of India. They are interviewing Sibel Bek, from Turkey and Valerie Luyckx of Switzerland on Renal Disasters and Ethical Considerations.  Recorded live in the ISN Kidney Studio during the WCN'23. This supplementa...

Adeera Levin, Professor of Medicine, head of the Division of Nephrology at University of British Columbia is the host for this episode of the Global Kidney Care Podcast. Dr. Levin is joined by Will Herrington, Honorary Consultant Nephrologist, Oxford Kidney Unit and Masaomi Nangaku professor and head of the division of nephrology and endocrinology, the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medici...

This episode of the Global Kidney Care podcast is hosted by Maria E. Diaz-Gonzalez de Ferris , Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a member of the ISN Education Working Group. She is joined in conversation with Paul Grimm , MD at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. They will discuss Dr. Grimm’s participation in how Stanford have enabled children to receive kidney transplants w...

Hosted by Roberto Pecoits-Filho, ISN Education Working Group Chair this special episode is a discussion on IgA nephropathy with Dana Rizik of UAB Birmingham and Dana Larsen of UCSF of San Francisco.  The idea behind a podcrawl is for a variety of podcasts to coordinate on timing and topic to push a theme and get each other’s listeners to explore all of the podcasts. One of the first goals behind N...

World Kidney Day (WKD) every year is observed on the Second Thursday of March, in 2023, it falls on March 9th and aims at advocating for Kidney Health for All! Prof. Ifeoma Ulasi, member of the WKD Steering Committee, is joined on this episode by WKD Steering Committee members Dr. Dina Abdellatif, Dr. Li-Li Hsiao and Dr. Ali Abu-Alfa, from the ISN Renal Disaster Preparedness Working Group. The WKD...

Drs Namrata Parikh, Gary Chan and Nick Medjeral-Thomas are nephrologists and complement enthusiasts interested in the diagnosis and management of complement mediated kidney diseases. In this conversation, we discussed key clinical and pathology features of inappropriate, pathogenic complement activity that guide physicians to a diagnosis of C3 glomerulopathy. We discussed differences in investigat...

The latest episode of the Global Kidney Care Podcast is hosted by Edmund Chung, Cochrane and Kidney Transplant Knowledge, Translation and Decimation Editor and he is joined by Karolis Azukaitis, Senior Pediatric Nephrologist at Vilnius University Hospital and Elisabeth Hodson, Honorary consultant Pediatric Nephrologist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney. They discuss highlights of th...

Cochrane Kidney and Transplant was established in 1997 with its editorial base currently in Sydney Australia. They are one of 53 Cochrane Review Groups that are part of Cochrane, an international, independent not-for-profit dedicated to providing up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of health care. Cochrane produces and disseminates systematic reviews of research on healthcare interv...

Roberto and Smeeta are joined by Elaine Bowes, Clinical Nurse Specialist PD at Kings College NHS; Ana Elizabeth Prado Lima Figueiredo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS; and Barbara Crisp, Greys Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. All three discuss their roles on the leading edge of PD catheter insertion by nurses. 

World Kidney Day (WKD) every year is observed on the Second Thursday of March, this year it falls on March 10th. This initiative launched in 2006 jointly by the International Society of Nephrology and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations - World Kidney Alliance is a daylong campaign to raise awareness about the ever-increasing burden of kidney diseases worldwide and strives for kidne...

Roberto and Smeeta are joined this episode by Maolynne Miller, Jamaica's first pediatric nephrologist. She is today the Director/Founder of Jamaica Kidney Kids Foundation and a Pediatric Nephrologist at University Hospital of the West Indies.  Maolynne returned home from her residency in Toronto in 1984 and since then has been instrumental in every advancement of pediatric nephrology in her countr...

Roberto is joined by Ronald Pisoni, Senior Research Scientist, Fritz (Friedrich) Port, nephrologist/epidemiologist and Bruce Robinson VP for Clinical Research all at the Arbor Research Collaborative for Health. They are discussing the 25 year history of DOPPS (Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Pattern Study) program. 

Roberto and Smeeta are joined Michael G. Shlipak, MD from the University of California San Francisco  and Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, MD, MBA from Weill Cornell Medicine to discuss their representation at the KDIGO Controversies Conference and its resulting ISN-KDIGO Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Early Identification and Intervention Toolkit, which offers a series of tools for CKD early identification...

Dr. Tushar Vachharajani has spent the last decade dedicating his time and effort to ISN Education and is one of the founders of The ISN Academy. The Academy has become one of the premier online educational resources in the field of nephrology and Dr. Vachharajani is stepping down as the Chair of Education Working Group that oversees the Academy. In his conversation with Roberto and Smeeta in this...

Smeeta Sinha was joined by guest host Sibel Bek, Assistant Professor, Kocaeli Univeristy Hosptial Kocaeli Turkey she is also an ISNEducation Social Media Team Deputy Chair. They are hosting a conversation with Kate Bramham, Consultant Nephrologist and Senior Clinical lecturer, King's College Hospital and Rolando Claure-Del Granado, Nephrology Chief of Service. Hospital Oberro No2-CNS, Cochabamba,...

Guest host Dr. Arvind Conjeevaram Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician, Bangalore and @ISNeducation Social Media Team Chair sits down with Sofia Ahmed, Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Advisory Board Member, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Gender and Health  and Angela Webster, Transplant Physician, Westmead Hospital, Professor of Cli...