The latest episode of the Kidney Care Podcast is a Conversation with Peter Kotanko, a leading expert on artificial intelligence applications for kidney care and the Emeritus Director of the Renal Research Institute in New York, USA. This conversation on the intersection of AI and Nephrology is the first installment in a series of conversations on AI and is part of the new ISN Academy AI resource section on the ISN Academy. This resource page will be updated regularly, providing the latest original and curated material on AI and Nephrology.
This special episode's participants are Winston Fung, Clinical Assistant Professor/ Associate Consultant, Division of Nephrology at the Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Isabelle Ethier, Nephrologist, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montréal, Canada and Caroline Stigant, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia.
This is the first of a multi-part ELP-GreenK series and part one we discuss the environmental impact of kidney care and what we can do about it! This episode is also part of the larger ISN GREEN-K initiative – Global Environmental Evolution in Nephrology and Kidney Care Curriculum on the ISN Academy. Visit to delve deeper into environmentally sustainable kidney care, all in the name of caring for our patients and the environment!
This episode features a discussion among kidney nurses about the challenges patients face while on their renal replacement journey, and the various ways nurses can support them and their caregivers. The conversation includes suggestions for new nurses entering the field, thoughts on improving patient support, and discusses how approaches may vary in different contexts.
Ana Elizabeth Prado Lima Figueiredo – Professor, School of Nursing at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Elaine Bowes – Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist and Advanced Level Nurse Practitioner in Peritoneal Dialysis at Kings College Hospital
Fatima de Figueiredo - Renal Vascular Access Nurse, Kings Renal Unit, King's College Hospital Foundation Trust
Jane van der Jeugd - Nurse Practitioner: Transplantation I Nephrology, Flinders Medical Centre, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network
Zehra Aydin - Assistant Professor at Istanbul Atlas University
In this special World Kidney Day podcast episode, Martina Pirotta, WKD Campaign Manager on behalf of the ISN, welcomes Dr. José Moura-Neto, President of the Brazilian Society of Nephrology, and Dr. Viviane Calice Silva, Director of the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention of Kidney Diseases at the Brazilian Society of Nephrology to describe the current landscape of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Brazil. They discuss how Brazil commemorates World Kidney Day, with over 1,000 activities taking place annually, the impact of awareness initiatives, and a significant study on CKD screening using point-of-care creatinine testing across the country.
World Kidney Day (WKD) is observed annually on the second Thursday of March. In 2025, it falls on March 13, with the theme "Are Your Kidneys OK? Detect Early, Protect Kidney Health."
In this episode, WKD Joint Steering Committee ISN co-chair Dr. Li-Li Hsiao is joined by IFKF-WKA co-chair Dr. Dina Abdellatif and Prof. Alessandro Balducci, past co-chair and current committee member. Together, they discuss who is at higher risk for kidney disease, available tests for early detection, and the 8 Golden Rules for kidney disease prevention. They also highlight ways to get involved in the WKD campaign.
In this episode Shilpanjali Jesudason (Faculty), Head of Unit, Central and Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplantation Service (CNARTS), Royal Adelaide Hospital, CALHN Clinical Professor, University of Adelaide and Rasha Shemies (Trainee) Assistant Professor of nephrology, Mansoura University, Egypt discuss the ISN Train the Trainer Program for Pregnancy and Kidney Disease. The Train the Trainer was designed to help those who have an interest in obstetric nephrology in their region to provide them material, resources and support to up-skill and most importantly be able to also go and teach about obstetric nephrology.
Every year, the ISN Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program brings essential teaching and training to some 14,000 doctors and healthcare practitioners in the emerging world. This Program supports the conceptual design of local and regional meetings in resource-low countries by contributing to the organization of the meeting and helping arrange faculty for the meeting.
This episode is hosted by Urmila Anandh (India), a member CME Program Committee and she is joined by Rümeyza Turan Kazancioglu (Turkey), Adrian Liew (Singapore) and Jaime Restrepo (Colombia) to discuss the activities and initiatives of the CME Programs Committee. They discuss how the committee serves the ISN and the global nephrology world.
Haemodialysis (HD) requires safe and effective anticoagulation to prevent clot formation within the extracorporeal circuit during dialysis treatments to enable adequate dialysis and minimise adverse events, including major bleeding. Low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) may provide a more predictable dose, reliable anticoagulant effects and be simpler to administer than unfractionated heparin (UFH) for HD anticoagulation, but may accumulate in the kidneys and lead to bleeding. in this latest episode fo the podcast Edmund Chung, Knowledge and Information Decimation Editor of the Cochrane Kidney Transplant Group. Edmund is Joined by the lead author on this article Patricia Natale Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney.
For this episode of the Global Kidney Care Podcast, Jonathan Barratt, MD, MSc, PhD is Professor of Renal Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester and Richard Lafayette, MD, FACP is a Nephrologist and Professor of Medicine at the Division of Nephrology Department of Medicine, Stanford University discuss the changing landscape in IgAN and disease modification approaches.
This podcast is supported by Vera Therapeutics
Recorded live at the WCN’ 24 in Buenos Aires Argentina this conversation focuses on the ISN Educational Ambassadors (EA) Program.
Renal centers around the world can apply for support of the Educational Ambassadors (EA) Program and receive expert guidance and hands-on training to advance new initiatives, skills or services, and community-based research and screening programs.
EA Program Committee member Titi Chen, Nephrologist and Transplant physician from the University of Sydney, Australia, leads a discussion on the purpose and impact of the EA Program with its outgoing chair Gavin Dreyer, Nephrologist, King’s College London, UK, and program participants Lázaro Cobiellas Carballo, Nephrologist, University of Medical Sciences in Holguin, Cuba, Juan Santacruz Mancheno, Nephrologist from the Clínica de los riñones Menydial, Ecuador and Bernardo Moguel, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chavez, Mexico.
This latest episode of the Global Kidney Care Podcast is an effort of the ISN, ISPD, and Arbor Research Collaborative for Health (the coordinating center for the DOPPS family of studies). This episode is focused on PDOPPS, our international study of practice patterns and outcomes of peritoneal dialysis patients. The conversation is led by Roberto Pecoits-Filho, DOPPS Program Scientific Director and is joined by the president of the ISPD Edwina Brown from the Imperial College Renal & Transplant Centre, Jenny Shen from the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Jeffrey Perl from St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and the Principal Investigator of PDOPPS.
Helen Hurst, Ana Elizabeth Figueiredo and Rachael Walker members of the ISN's Kidney Health Professionals Working Group discuss shared decision making. This was recorded in person during the ISN's World Congress of Nephrology 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This podcast is supported by Baxter.
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 in 2023 summarizing the benefits and harms of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for fatigue in people on dialysis. On this podcast, the review’s first author Dr Patrizia Natale joins us to discuss the study’s findings.
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 for Research at Providence Inland Northwest Health. The WKD Joint Steering Committee has declared WKD 2024 as “Advancing equitable access to care and optimal medication practice.” Their conversation covers the goals of WKD, raising awareness about the importance of ensuring equitable access to appropriate treatment and care for people living with kidney disease, in order to improve their quality of life and delay the progression of the disease.
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 Krishnamoorthy and patient advocate Funke Ojuri continue the conversation on Health disparities that are often driven by socioeconomic, racial, and geographic factors and how they play a crucial role in shaping the progression of ADPKD and its associated complications.
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 disease. Populations are no longer solely affected by ‘diseases of poverty’ such as HIV/TB/malaria but also ‘diseases of affluence’ such as diabetes and hypertension. Disease is often asymptomatic until end-stage disease develops requiring expensive treatment options such as transplant or dialysis.
In this episode you will here from patients in Uganda about how kidney disease has affected their lives, and the hardships of relying on expensive treatment options in a resource-poor country.
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 Group leads a discussion that covers what barriers patients and health care providers face and how they can inspire lifelong physical activity among their patients.
Paul is joined by a truly diverse set of international guests:
· Stephanie Thompson, MD PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Nephrology, University of Alberta, Canada
· Heitor S. Ribeiro, PhD, Exercise physiologist, Postdoctoral Research fellow at the School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
· Pedro Martins, coordinator of the physical exercise program at NephroCare Portugal (Fresenius Medical Care); PhD student at the University of Maia, Portugal
· Wilson Du, Renal Warrior, diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease Wilson turned to physical activity to not only improve his health, but to take control of his diagnoses. Today he is inspiring others who suffer with similar diagnosis to improve their lives through exercise.
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 Pandya on the origins, goals and future of website.
