This page contains the following sections:
Recent ISN Global Outreach (GO) Programs 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 GO funded CMEs, site visits, Fellows, Renal Sister Centers and other programs can be viewed in the below overview of ISN GO Programs activities per region .
Overview of all ISN GO fellows and activities per region
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Outcome second Educational Ambassadors application session
Over the coming months, several ISN Educational Ambassadors will be travelling to countries in the developing world, providing training and guidance to local nephrologists, doctors and other healthcare professionals. Qualified and approved experts, they volunteer to spend one to four weeks away from home to provide hands-on training locally at the host institution. The following training sessions will take place in these institutions over the coming months.
Transplantation
- Nephrology Service, Hospital del Salvador Santiago, Chile given by José Marià Morales, Nephrology Service, 12 de Octubre Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
Dialysis - Tikur Anbessa Hospital Renal Unit, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia given by Jeffery Perl, University of Toronto, Canada.
- Centro de Nefrologia Hospital de Clínicas Universidad de la República Montevideo, Uruguay given by Martinez Castelao Alberto, Hospital Universitari. Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain.
Renal Pathology
- Medical School, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam given by Moira Finlay, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia.
- Moscow city Nephrological Center given by Arthur Cohen, UCLA School of Medicine.
Acute Kidney Failure, Clinical Nephrology and Education/teaching of nephrology
- Hopital St-Jean de Dieu, Tanguiéta, Benin Republic given by Giovanni Battista Fogazzi, Fondazionze IRCCS, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico,Milan, Italy.
Acute Renal Failure and dialysis
- Sanatorio Allende, Córdoba, Argentina given by Ali Abu Alfa, Yale University, USA.
For more information on the ISN GO Educational Ambassadors Program, click here.
New deadline dates for ISN GO Fellowship applications
Deadlines dates for applications to the ISN GO Fellowship Program have now changed. Each year there are two application periods and deadlines have now been set for December 15 and June 15 (instead of January 31 and July 31).
ISN Fellowships have revealed much success over recent years, with participants from emerging countries receiving training in the latest skills and picking up breakthrough knowledge to share with their colleagues when they return to their home institution. To apply for this program, we do ask you to send through your application as early as possible so we have enough time to locate the right host institution for you.
To ensure that your application runs a smoothly as possible, here are a few tips to remember:
•All applications and enclosures must be submitted in English to be eligible
•Both the home and host mentors must be ISN members
•All parties involved in a renal transplantation fellowship (fellow and both mentors) should adhere to the Declaration of Istanbul
•All fellows should guarantee they will return home for a period of at least three years. In their application file, they must provide a letter from their home institution director guaranteeing they will be re-employed at the end of their training.
•Once their training is finished, they should return to their home country within three months. Otherwise, they will not receive the benefits linked to the ISN Fellowship including ISN membership, WCN travel grant and certificate.
Detailed information on the ISN GO Fellowship Program can be found here. Find out more about the ISN GO Programs here.
SRC success story in China
The Institute of Nephrology at Beijing University has recently provided information regarding successful activities stemming from partnerships between renal centers in China and the United States.
Starting in the 1980s, several courses, lectures and visits have taken place through the ISN Sister Renal Center Program. Helping the local nephrology community stay updated on the latest breakthroughs and techniques in the field.
These partnerships have helped to develop opportunities for kidney doctors and specialists to benefit from the ISN Fellowship Program. ISN Fellows have received the most recent training and have shared their knowledge and new skills with their colleagues back home. The overal response to these programs has had an important impact on renal care and research in the country.
You can read the full report below.
SRC report China (, )
RECENT ISN Global Outreach (GO) Programs 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 ISN GLOBAL OUTREACH (GO) PROGRAMS 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
Discover the lastest statistics about the ISN GO Programs participation in the document below!
Participation in ISN GO Programs in 2009 - Statistics
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