Nephrology News Flash is the official ERA-EDTA E-Newsletter

No 187, September 2019

Earn European credits at the 2019 SEID

The Scientific and Educational Interaction Day (SEID) has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 10 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist should only claim the hours of credit that he/she actually spent doing the educational activity. Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process on how to convert EACCME® credits into AMA credits can be found at www.ama-assn.org/education/earn-credit-participation-international-activities.
 

Are you still considering participating? Do take advantage of the Special membership fee and register here.

Pre-registration is highly recommended due to the limited number of seats. Only ERA-EDTA members (cat. A, B and C) are entitled to participate. Not a member yet? Click here.

The ERA-EDTA Working Group on Inherited Kidney Diseases (WGIKD) and ERKNet, the European Reference Network for Rare Kidney Diseases, are pleased to present Rare Kidney Disease Webinars, an educational initiative that is freely accessible to all users.
 

A new Webinar will be held on Tuesday October 1, 2019 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm CET (3:00 pm UK time, 5:00 pm Eastern European time).

Dario Roccatello (Turin, Italy) will give a presentation on ‘Diagnosis and Treatment of Cryoglobulinemic Vasculitis’.

Register here to receive the access link to the Webinar.

If you would like to be notified automatically about future Rare Kidney Disease Webinars, please sign up here for the ERKNet Newsletter.

Two decades of the Eurotransplant Senior Program: the gender gap in mortality impacts patient survival after kidney transplantation

Long-term outcomes of the Eurotransplant Senior Program (ESP) are urgently needed to improve selection criteria and allocation policies in the elderly. Long-term outcomes of ESP-KTRs ultimately support the effectiveness of an age-matched allocation system. Authors, supported by data, suggest that the survival advantage of women is maintained after kidney transplantation and calls for gender-specific care.

Click here to read the paper.

You are kindly invited to participate in a short survey about the suitability and acceptance of living kidney donors in certain challenging conditions. The survey is approved by the institutional review board of King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh (South Arabia). The survey is designed for nephrologists and transplant surgeons and aims at achieving a consensus about the evaluation of marginal live kidney donor.

Click here to complete the survey.

ERA-EDTA is present at the Scientific Exposition of many National Societies’ Meetings.  Do not miss the chance to meet ERA-EDTA’s staff and receive the latest information about the SEID, 57^th ERA-EDTA Congress in Milan (Italy) and all the other activities offered by the Association.
4^th Congress of the French Society of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (Societé Francophone de Néphrologie, Dialyse et Transplantation - SFNDT)
Nancy, France, October 1-4, 2019, Booth 66c

60^th Congress of the Italian Society of Nephrology (Società Italiana di Nefrologia - SIN)
Rimini, Italy, October 2-5, 2019, Booth 90

49^th Congress of the Spanish Society of Nephrology (Sociedad Española de Nefrología - SEN)
La Coruña, Spain, October 5-8, 2019, Booth 36

11^th Congress of the German Society of Nephrology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nephrologie - DGfN)
Düsseldorf, Germany, October 10-13, 2019, Booth 71

ISN attended the High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage which took place during the UN GA and submitted a statement on behalf of the kidney community.

Click here to read the statement.

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