Global Kidney Care Podcast Provided by ISN – Details, episodes & analysis

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. 

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. 

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 improvements in translational animal studies to help develop new drugs to treat kidney diseases.

Masaomi Nangaku talks about essential factors to consider in animal studies and the future of organoids and organs-on-a-chip.

The guidance is the first of its kind. It was developed by experts in the global kidney community following the “TRANSFORM; TRAnslational Nephrology Science FOR new Medications” consensus meeting held in 2022.

Access more information about the initiative:

• ARRIVE Guidelines
• Infographics of the summary of all the recommendations for pre-clinical animal studies in translational nephrology

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 trials she's been involved in, barriers to overcome in clinical research, and finding the right people to collaborate with. 

Adeera Levine discusses her work in international clinical trials, current hot research topics, and research challenges in different resource settings. She also gives recommendations for those seeking to get involved in clinical trials. 

*The ISN-ACT GTF provides a monthly summary of recent compelling trials relevant to kidney disease. 

Read the ISN-ACT GTF here.  

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 supplemental episode is a cross over of the Global Kidney Care Podcast and the ISN Social Media Team. The Social Media Team is a group of health professionals ensuring social media coverage of the Congress through:

• Live tweeting of scientific sessions
• Visual abstracts
• Live visual abstracts
• Daily quizzes
• Interviews
• Podcasts
• Video summaries, and more.

For more Information on the Social Media Team

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 Medicine. In addition, Dr. Nangaku is all also the current president of the ISN.

Drs. Levin, Herrington and Nangaku presented a webinar on the ISN Academy in December 2022 and in this episode follow up on that presentation with a discussion of the latest updates. 

This podcast is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim & Lilly