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 origin...
Jul 08, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 5
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 envi...
Jun 04, 2025•39 min•Season 5Ep. 4
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 ...
Apr 29, 2025•46 min•Season 5Ep. 3
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 takin...
Feb 20, 2025•17 min•Season 5Ep. 2
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 Gold...
Feb 20, 2025•31 min•Season 5Ep. 1
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 th...
Dec 12, 2024•23 min•Season 4Ep. 10
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...
Sep 23, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 9
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 episo...
Aug 29, 2024•15 min•Season 4Ep. 8
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
Jul 25, 2024•25 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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, lea...
Jun 28, 2024•28 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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 & Transpla...
Jun 03, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 5
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.
May 07, 2024•23 min•Season 4Ep. 4
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 podcas...
Apr 23, 2024•21 min•Season 4Ep. 3
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 WK...
Feb 29, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 2
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 oft...
Jan 25, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 1
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 al...
Nov 06, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 13
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.
Oct 31, 2023•30 min•Season 3Ep. 13
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.
Sep 29, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 11
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 the...
Sep 14, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 10
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....
Aug 29, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 9
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...
Jul 06, 2023•20 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Michele Provenzano and Daniel O'Hara, coordinators of the ISN-ACT Global Trials F ocus (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 he...
Jun 12, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 7
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...
May 15, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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 an...
Apr 28, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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 enabled children to receive kidney transplants without need for immune-suppressing drugs, thanks to a revolutionary method that transplants the dono...
Apr 17, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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 of the podcasts. One of the first goals behind NephMadness was to build a community and in the early years of Twitter, NephMadness was central to the...
Mar 07, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 4
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 Renal Disaster Preparedness Working Group. The WKD Steering Committee has declared 2023 “Preparing for the unexpected, supporting the vulnerable”. The...
Feb 21, 2023•48 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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 glomerulopathy. We discussed differences in investigation and management strategies between our respective clinical centers in Ottawa, Hong Kong and Londo...
Jan 31, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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 Westmead in Sydney. They discuss highlights of their Cochrane updated Review of Interventions for Minimal Change Disease in Adults with Nephrotic Syn...
Jan 02, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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 systematic reviews of research on healthcare interventions. Roberto and Smeeta interview: Jonathan Craig Coordinating Editor Giovanni Strippoli Deputy ...
Jun 23, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 6
