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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 formation of #NephTwitter and defining the ethos that makes our online community kind, intelligent, vibrant, and interesting. The NephMadness Podcrawl hopes to inspire and grow the nephrology podcast community in the same way. This year along with the Global Kidney Care Podcast the following series will participate:  The Curbsiders gets the skinny on mineralcorticoid receptor antagonists Core IM will be covering Kidney Transplant in their classic Five Pearl format The CardioNerds will be covering the effect of Heart Failure Devices on Kidney Health Freely Filtered will try to understand thrombotic microangiopathy The Cribsiders look at transitions, first the Peditrics to Adult nephrology transition and then from living to death with palliative nephrology  Fellow on Call will be covering Onconephrology The Nephron Segment looks at Transgender Health and CKD 8 podcasts in all one for each region in this year’s NephMadnessGo to NephMadness.com/podcrawl to get links to all of the shows

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”. Their conversation covers the goals of WKD to raise awareness about disastrous events, natural or man-made, international or local, and their impact on people living with kidney disease whose access to appropriate diagnostic services, treatment and care may be hindered.

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 London, including access to clinical trials of therapeutic complement inhibitors. To finish, we speculated on the future impact on clinical nephrology of complement pathway analysis and inhibition.Make sure to also check out the Complement-Mediated Kidney Diseases Toolkit here

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 Syndrome (new evidence summary).

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 Co-ordinating Editor Elisabeth Hodson  Senior Editorial Board Member, and Feedback Editor Edmund Chung Editorial Board Member, and Knowledge Translation and Dissemination Editor Their discussion covers both the history and the future of Cochrane Kidney and Transplant.  

Roberto and Smeeta are joined by Elaine Bowes, Clinical Nurse Specialist PD at Kings College NHS; Ana Elizabeth Prado Lima Figueiredo, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS; and Barbara Crisp, Greys Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. All three discuss their roles on the leading edge of PD catheter insertion by nurses. 

World Kidney Day (WKD) every year is observed on the Second Thursday of March, this year it falls on March 10th. This initiative launched in 2006 jointly by the International Society of Nephrology and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations - World Kidney Alliance is a daylong campaign to raise awareness about the ever-increasing burden of kidney diseases worldwide and strives for kidney health for all.  On this episode Roberto and Smeeta are joined by Robyn Langham (Australia), Co-chair for ISN and SF Lui (Hong Kong), IFKF-WKA Project Director of the WKD Steering Committee to discuss the history of WKD and 2022’s campaign and goals. 

Roberto and Smeeta are joined this episode by Maolynne Miller, Jamaica's first pediatric nephrologist. She is today the Director/Founder of Jamaica Kidney Kids Foundation and a Pediatric Nephrologist at University Hospital of the West Indies.  Maolynne returned home from her residency in Toronto in 1984 and since then has been instrumental in every advancement of pediatric nephrology in her country. She has had a direct influence in all six practicing pediatric nephrologists in Jamaica. she sits down with Roberto and Smeeta and recounts what inspired her when she was starting out and what drives her on still today.   

Roberto is joined by Ronald Pisoni, Senior Research Scientist, Fritz (Friedrich) Port, nephrologist/epidemiologist and Bruce Robinson VP for Clinical Research all at the Arbor Research Collaborative for Health. They are discussing the 25 year history of DOPPS (Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Pattern Study) program. 

Roberto and Smeeta are joined Michael G. Shlipak, MD from the University of California San Francisco  and Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, MD, MBA from Weill Cornell Medicine to discuss their representation at the KDIGO Controversies Conference and its resulting ISN-KDIGO Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Early Identification and Intervention Toolkit, which offers a series of tools for CKD early identification and intervention aimed at kidney health professionals, primary care physicians and nurses working in primary care settings. Dr. Tummalapali and Shlipak discuss current screening recommendations, testing, treatments and how can nephrologists and other specialities prevent CKD and delay complications for those with early CKD.Learn more at: https://www.theisn.org/initiatives/ckd-early-screening-intervention/

Dr. Tushar Vachharajani has spent the last decade dedicating his time and effort to ISN Education and is one of the founders of The ISN Academy. The Academy has become one of the premier online educational resources in the field of nephrology and Dr. Vachharajani is stepping down as the Chair of Education Working Group that oversees the Academy. In his conversation with Roberto and Smeeta in this episode he provides the history of ISN's online education that culminated in the presentation of WCN'21, a full virtual congress. 

Smeeta Sinha was joined by guest host Sibel Bek, Assistant Professor, Kocaeli Univeristy Hosptial Kocaeli Turkey she is also an ISNEducation Social Media Team Deputy Chair. They are hosting a conversation with Kate Bramham, Consultant Nephrologist and Senior Clinical lecturer, King's College Hospital and Rolando Claure-Del Granado, Nephrology Chief of Service. Hospital Oberro No2-CNS, Cochabamba, BoliviaKate and Rolando are discussing their talks at the WCN'21 on the topic of AKI. 

Guest host Dr. Arvind Conjeevaram Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician, Bangalore and @ISNeducation Social Media Team Chair sits down with Sofia Ahmed, Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Advisory Board Member, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Gender and Health  and Angela Webster, Transplant Physician, Westmead Hospital, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Sydney. Director of Evidence Integration at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Center University of Sydney.   They discuss their upcoming talks at the WCN'21 and go deeper into the topic of Gender. 

Roberto and Smeeta are joined in conversation with Jeremy Hughes, Professor of Experimental Nephrology Honorary Consultant Nephrologist Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh and Dwomoa Adu, Honorary Consultant Nephrologist, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. Senior Research Fellow, University of Ghana Medical School and Laura Sola, Nephrologist, Director of Hemodialysis Center. They discuss their talks at the WCN'21 and the broader topic of capacity building. 

Roberto is joined by guest host Dr. Arvind Conjeevaram Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician, Bangalore and @ISNeducation Social Media Team Chair. Arvind and Roberto interviewed Elaine Bowes, Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist, Kings College Hospital London and Ana Elizabeth Figueiredo, Proffesor, Ponticia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) as well as Simon Davies, Consultant Nephrologist, University Hospital of North Midlands, UK. They discussed the talks that they will be presenting at the WCN'21 on PD. 

Roberto is joined by guest host Dr. Arvind Conjeevaram Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician, Bangalore and @ISNeducation Social Media Team Chair. Roberto and Arvind interviewed four speakers from the WCN’21 who gave previews of their talks on AKI, PD, Capacity Building and Gender.  Simon Davies: Person Centered Prescription of PDRolando Claure Del Granado: Tropical Diseases, Venoms and HerbolariaSofia Ahmed: Sex and Gender in Nephrology: Proper Care or Propaganda?Dwomoa Adu: H3Africa Project

Roberto and Smeeta are joined on this episode by Philip Kam Tao Li and Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh co-chairs of World Kidney Day (WKD) Steering Committee. This year the Steering Committee has declared 2021 "Living well with Kidney Disease". Their conversation covers the goals of WKD to both increase education and awareness about effective symptom management and patient empowerment, with the ultimate goal of encouraging life participation.

Hosts Roberto and Smeeta are joined in two conversations in this months episode. One with Shuchi Anand, MD, MS and Mike Spigler, MCHES on their participation in recent American Kidney Fund Unknown Causes of Kidney Disease Summit held in December 2020. The second conversation is with Professors David Wheeler and Hiddo Lambers Heerspink on Clinical Trials (ISN-ACT). 

Roberto and Smeeta have dedicated this episode to nephrology fellows supported by ISN in their training. Two separate discussion will focus on how the ISN fellowship helped to impact their careers and shape their community around their activities.

The Global Kidney Care Podcast hosts are joined this episode by two of ISN's leaders, Vivekanand Jha, ISN President and Fergus Caskey, Interim Secretary/Treasurer. Vivek spoke to Roberto and Smeeta about the impact of COVID-19 on the Nephrology community and ISN's response over the last several months. In addition they look ahead and discuss ISN's ongoing plans to lead the nephrology community as the pandemic continues to unfold. In their discussion with Fergus they explore the data collection initiative undertaken during the first months of the COVID-19 crisis and how this is helping the nephrology community understand the current challenges of not only COVID-19, but all kidney disease.