This page contains the following sections:
Recent COMGAN News
Data and Statistics
Information regarding the activities and announcements of a specific committee or program can be located under the respective webpage.
A detailed listing of all recent ISN-COMGAN funded CMEs, site visits, Fellows, Renal Sister Centers and other programs can be viewed in the below overview of COMGAN activities per region .
Overview of all COMGAN Fellows and Activities per Region
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RECENT COMGAN NEWS: Results of the Last R&P Application Session
As for Round 2, 2009, the ISN Research and Prevention Selection Committee decided, after careful reviewing, to award a grant to the following projects:
- Application #05-011 “Are low birth weight newborns at risk for suboptimal renal growth and function during infancy?” by Dr. Arpana A. Iyengar - Bangalore, India
- Application #03-010.R1 “First national chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular risk factor survey in adult population from select districts of Panama province” by Dr. Felipe Rodriguez De Leon Panama City, Panama
- Application #03-011 “Screening program in children for prevention of chronic renal disease and hypertension in the Peruvian Andes” by Dr. Abdias Hurtado Lima, Peru
- Application #01-005 “Program of early detection of chronic kidney disease in high-risk population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, EDCKD-BH” by prof Enisa Mesic (Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The highest-ranked project will be assigned the 15,000 US $ grant and the others will be awarded each with 10,000 US $.
ISN warmly congratulates the successful project coordinators and thank them for their dedication and commitment to improve nephrology standards in developing countries.
RECENT COMGAN NEWS: R&P Program - An important message for Latin America
Dr. Ricardo Correa-Rotter kindly agreed to substitute Dr. Bernardo Rodriguez Iturbe as Regional Coordinator of Latin America. All future applications of Latin America should be submitted to Dr. Correa-Rotter (see guidelines for call for Proposals).
RECENT COMGAN NEWS: Announcement of Results of Last SRC Application Session
ISN congratulates the pairs who submitted a successful application during the last application session closed on 30 September 2009. The table below provides an overview of the pairs active in 2010.
For more information about the outcome of the session, please contact Ms Sophie Dupuis (sdupuis@isn-online.org) at the ISN Global Operations Center.
SRC pairs active in 2010
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Recent COMGAN News: Launching the Educational Ambassadors Program
As of January 2009 the “ISN Educational Ambassadors” program will replace the previous Visiting Scholars Program.
The new program enables centers in the developing world to request a qualified expert to join them onsite for a few weeks to provide them with very specific training or to help initiate and develop new services or community based research and screening programs. The program matches the request against a database of qualified and approved experts and initiates all arrangements between the center and the selected Educational Ambassador; ISN covers certain of the experts expenses to travel and deliver training for a period of 1-4 weeks.
The Educational Ambassadors Program involves the ISN-COMGAN Regional Committees in the application process in order to assess the need and relevance of the requests for training. The program aims to advance nephrology through very concrete and immediate progress enabling the impact on the renal health care services in emerging countries to be well monitored.
The program also welcomes applications from volunteer Educational Ambassadors and thus provides ISN members and younger nephrologists with an invaluable opportunity for personal involvement in the societies’ educational programs while also building the sense of global solidarity and awareness in the renal world.
Detailed information on the program can be found on the program’s webpage
Data and Statistics
