Fatigue is a common and debilitating symptom amongst people with kidney failure but remains under appreciated and understudied. Interventions to address fatigue in people with kidney failure requiring dialysis are lacking, highlighted by the lack of recommendations on managing fatigue in clinical practice guidelines. A Cochrane review was published…

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, …

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…

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 un…

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.由Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Smeeta Sinha

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…

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 …

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 …

Michele Provenzano and Daniel O'Hara, coordinators of the ISN-ACT Global Trials Focus (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 tr…

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 …

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,…

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 …

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…

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 …

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 glom…

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…

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 s…

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 …

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 …

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 offer…

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…

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…

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, Transpla…

Roberto and Smeeta are joined in conversation with Jeremy Hughes, Professor of Experimental Nephrology Honorary Consultant Nephrologist Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh and Dwomoa Adu, Honorary Consultant Nephrologist, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. Senior Research Fellow, University of Ghana Medical School and Laura Sola, Nephrologist, Director of Hemodial…

Roberto is joined by guest host Dr. Arvind Conjeevaram Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician, Bangalore and @ISNeducation Social Media Team Chair. Arvind and Roberto interviewed Elaine Bowes, Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist, Kings College Hospital London and Ana Elizabeth Figueiredo, Proffesor, Ponticia Universidade Católica do Rio Gran…

Roberto is joined by guest host Dr. Arvind Conjeevaram Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician, Bangalore and @ISNeducation Social Media Team Chair. Roberto and Arvind interviewed four speakers from the WCN’21 who gave previews of their talks on AKI, PD, Capacity Building and Gender. Simon Davies: Person Centered Prescription of PD Rolando…

Roberto and Smeeta are joined on this episode by Philip Kam Tao Li and Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh co-chairs of World Kidney Day (WKD) Steering Committee. This year the Steering Committee has declared 2021 "Living well with Kidney Disease". Their conversation covers the goals of WKD to both increase education and awareness about effective symptom managem…

Hosts Roberto and Smeeta are joined in two conversations in this months episode. One with Shuchi Anand, MD, MS and Mike Spigler, MCHES on their participation in recent American Kidney Fund Unknown Causes of Kidney Disease Summit held in December 2020. The second conversation is with Professors David Wheeler and Hiddo Lambers Heerspink on Clinical T…

Roberto and Smeeta have dedicated this episode to nephrology fellows supported by ISN in their training. Two separate discussion will focus on how the ISN fellowship helped to impact their careers and shape their community around their activities.由Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Smeeta Sinha

The Global Kidney Care Podcast hosts are joined this episode by two of ISN's leaders, Vivekanand Jha, ISN President and Fergus Caskey, Interim Secretary/Treasurer. Vivek spoke to Roberto and Smeeta about the impact of COVID-19 on the Nephrology community and ISN's response over the last several months. In addition they look ahead and discuss ISN's …

GKC podcast hosts Roberto Pecoits-Filho and Smeeta Sinha have a conversation with Kidney International Reports Article, SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Hospitalized Patients With Kidney Disease Authors, Hernando Trujillo and Ángel Sevillano from the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid Spain. The interview takes on the findings in the article, bu…

The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) presents a bonus episode of the GKC Podcast, a conversation with two US based Nephrologists discussing the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. This conversation involves Dr. Summit Mohan who is working in New York City and Dr. Raghu Durvasula who is working in Seattle.…

The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) presents part 2 of an important conversation with UK based nephrologists and kidney health professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. This conversation involves two groups from the UK, one from London and the other from Salford, discussing their unique and contrasting experiences in the fi…

The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) presents part 1 of an important conversation with UK based nephrologists and kidney health professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. This conversation involves two groups from the UK, one from London and the other from Salford, discussing their unique and contrasting experiences in the fi…