The official ERA-EDTA Newsletter - Year 2 Issue 8

Going for Gold - Barcelona

From David J. Goldsmith, Chair of Paper Selection Committee / Member of Scientific Committee

D.J. Goldsmith

The abstract site linked to this meeting (XLIV ERA-EDTA Congress) is now open (http://www.call4abstracts.com/era/). You can see from the graph that year on year more people are submitting abstracts to this increasingly important and valuable meeting. Carmine Zoccali as Chair of the Scientific Committee has worked very hard to deliver a rich and varied programme which should interest and educate the clinician and scientist alike. Let's see if we can win the Gold medal in 2007 (apt for this "Olympic" city) by having the most abstract submissions for any ERA-EDTA Congress.

There are some points this year - the changes I instituted last year with abstract sub-sections (see the "instructions to authors") will remain, as this was helpful. The increased guidance and examples for people for whom English is not their mother tongue, will also be available. Most importantly, while the scoring essentially remains unaltered, with many experts kindly and generously giving of their time to mark abstracts, there will be section editors for this meeting whose job it will be to search out abstracts that look particularly promising for oral presentation.

Let’s "go for broke" this time, and break all records!

2006 ERA-EDTA National Grants Winners

In 2006 the ERA-EDTA awarded special National Grants to all the European National Societies of Nephrology that requested it.
This Grant is given to a young person (40 years old or younger) during the annual National Society's Meeting.
The selection of the winner is totally in the hands of the National Society, that simply informs, in due time, ERA-EDTA of the appropriate details regarding the winner.

In 2006 the following persons were awarded:

1) Dr. Signe Hjorth (Denmark);
2) Dr. Teresa Arcidiacono (Italy);
3) Dr. Basol Canbakan (Turkey);
4) Dr. Larisa Prikhodina (Russia).

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THEM!

For more details, and for the Application Form to request this Grant, click here.

Update on the ERA-EDTA Fellowships

The applications for the ERA-EDTA Fellowships submitted earlier this month are now under examination. Winners will be notified by the end of November 2006.

The next deadline for both long-term and short-term fellowships is April 15, 2007.

Applications have to be sent to the ERA-EDTA President and submitted online through the ERA-EDTA website.

Do not miss the opportunity to apply!

ERA-EDTA Membership Renewal - Important!!!

All ERA-EDTA members will soon be receiving their 2007 Membership Renewal  form - the payment must be done by November 30, 2006 to avoid any kind of  interruption of the mailing of NDT and/or access to NDT Online.

EX-OFFICIO OFFICERS
According to the new rules of the Constitution (article VII 02), notice must be given at this time of the ex-officio officers whose term expires in 2008. These should be nominated at the 2007 Spring Council Meeting and then elected at the General Assembly in Barcelona (June, 2007). They will then participate in the Council for one year before taking office (Stockholm - 2008) with voice but without vote. All ex-officio candidates must be full members and have been a member of the ERA-EDTA for at least 5 consecutive years.
ERA-EDTA President - Prof. Jorge Cannata-Andia (Spain) will end his term in 2008. Only present or past Ordinary Council members can be candidates for the post of ERA-EDTA President. The candidacy letters must be sent to the ERA-EDTA Secretary-Treasurer before February 15, 2007 together with supporting letters obtained from two other full members of the Association.

ERA-EDTA Secretary-Treasurer; ERA-EDTA Chairperson of Administrative Offices; NDT Editor-in-Chief - Prof. A. Covic (Romania); Prof. R. Coppo (Italy) and Prof. N. Lameire (Belgium) - respectively - will all end their first term as ERA-EDTA ex-officio officers in 2008. They will all be eligible for a second three year term. However should any full member wish to apply for this ex-officio post, he/she must send his/her candidacy letter to the Secretary-Treasurer before February 15, 2007 accompanied by supporting letters obtained from two other full members of the Association.

ORDINARY COUNCIL MEMBERS

Meet the ERA-EDTA at the ASN Renal Week 2006 in San Diego (November 14-19, 2006)

In 2005 the ASN asked ERA-EDTA to do an ASN Highlights in Europe at the annual ERA-EDTA Congress and the ERA-EDTA decided to organize a similar event, called “ERA-EDTA Highlights” in a mutual exchange with the overseas sister Society.
After the first ASN Highlights in Istanbul, in June 2005, the first ERA-EDTA Highlights were presented in Philadelphia during the 2005 ASN. The event was very successful, with more than 500 attendants, half from Europe and half from the US.
The programme for 2006 repeated the Highlights exchange between ERA-EDTA and ASN in Glasgow on July 15 and now in San Diego on November 17. Four prominent European speakers will present the most recent information regarding Glomerulonephritis, Chronic Kidney Disease, Dialysis and Transplantation (click here to view the complete programme).

So if you are planning to attend the ASN Meeting, don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about these most important topics.

As usual, ERA-EDTA will be represented in San Diego also by a booth in the exhibition. Come and visit us at the Booth 1343 to learn more about the next congress and other activities. The staff will also be available for accepting membership renewals and new membership applications.

Members of the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplantation Association (ERA-EDTA) can receive an exclusive 25% discount on Nephrology titles and a number of other selected titles from Oxford University Press at the ERA-EDTA – OUP online bookclub.

• Visit our website at www.oup.co.uk/promotions/medicine/era_edta to browse for books and place your discounted order online
• Stay up to date on new book releases by joining our free email information service at www.oup.com/uk/emailnews

Forthcoming:

Oxford Handbook of Nephrology and Hypertension
Simon Steddon, Neil Ashman, Alistair Chesser and John Cunningham

Discounted price: £18.71 (RRP £24.95)
Flexicover, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-852069-6
Publication date: September 2006

Based on the Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology and companion to the Oxford Handbook of Dialysis, the Oxford Handbook of Nephrology and Hypertension provides clear information and practical advice about the day-to-day management of patients with renal disease. This handbook includes practical information helpful to those working 'at the coal face', in addition to the more detailed knowledge that enables effective ongoing patient care.

You can pre-order your copy of this title from the bookclub at http://www.oup.co.uk/promotions/medicine/era_edta/

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation is the official journal of ERA-EDTA and it is one of the world's leading journals devoted to original clinical and laboratory research in nephrology, dialysis and transplantation. Published monthly, the journal provides an essential resource for researchers and clinicians throughout the world.

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