Web URL: http:// espn.org

Rosanna Coppo

ESPN

Secretary General

Prof. Larisa Prikhodina

IPNA-ESPN teaching course in Moscow,

October 22-24, 2013.

ESPN MEMBERSHIP

ESPN has 215 active members

(146 members have combined IPNA

membership)

and more than 1000 mail addresses

from Doctors who wish to be regularly

informed about what is going on in

Pediatric Nephrology

2013 Membership by countries total

UK 70

Germany 68

France 41

Italy 39

Spain 32

Turkey 30

Poland 23

Sweden 20

Russia 20

Hungary 20

Belgium 19

The Netherlands 19

Greece 17

Portugal 15

ESPN communication &networking activity

2013 newly organized mailing list

with 1020 mail addresses of

Doctors involved in

Pediatric Nephrology care.

COUNTRY MAIL addresses

· GERMANY 201

· SERBIA 27

· BELGIUM 31

· ICELAND 2

· PORTUGAL 22

· SWISS 18

· GREECE 14

· NORWAY 12

· FRANCE 99

· ITALY 253

· TURKEY 152

· RUSSIA 70

POLAND 1 indirect mailing list

UK 1 indirect mailing list

ESPN members from other Countries

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bosnia-Erzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Iceland,Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Macedonia, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine

Canada, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,Libya, Peru, Puerto Rico, Reunion Island, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, USA.

Web URL: http:// espn.org

ESPN 2013 activity

New initiatives

Scientific policy

ESPN Working Groups (WG)

Aimed at facilitating a true

European network,

Pediatric Nephrology activity visibility

Collaboration with IPNA and ERA-EDTA.

WG structure• a Scientific Board made up of 5 Members (one Chairperson for 3 year service and one young member): maximum

duration of each position is 6 years.- one member of the ESPN/ERA-EDTA Registry- one member of the ESPN Council - one expert in the area to liaise with ERA-EDTA

Regular Members are welcome:Apply for one or more WGs,

It is sufficient to be ESPN member!

Web URL: http:// espn.org

ESPN WGs

• Transplantation

• Dialysis

• CKD and metabolic bone disease

• Inherited kidney disorders

• CAKUT/UTI/bladder dysfunction

• Nephrotic syndrome

• Immune mediated renal diseases

– Karlijn van Stralen– Registry Coordinator– Marjolein Bonthuis– PhD student, since April

2010– Nick Chesnaye– PhD student– Sean Senecal– data manager

– Department’s research line ‘Evaluation of Health Care and Epidemiology’

• headed by Kitty Jager.

ESPN Educational policy

2013 Training grants :

3 x 1000 -3000 euro training grants applications for low and high income countries

5 travel grants for Pediatric Nephrology Courses

ESPN Educational policy

New initiatives:

1) CME slides series available for ESPN Members

start-up: 4 CME courses held by ESPN at the ERA-EDTA 2013:

Urinary tract infections in children and adults

Acute renal failure in the paediatric age group: treatment and

outcome

Diagnosis and management of osteodystrophy in children with CKD

ERA-EDTA/ESPN Registry

2) Master Classes of Working Group in Porto 2014 will be posted

NDT-educational (ERA-EDTA website) blog on Pediatric Nephrology

ESPN networking policy

New initiatives: Young Generation

ESPN will join the Young Nephrology Platform (YNP) just launched

by the ERA-EDTA, linking the two websites and sharing common

activities addressed to < 40 y.o. Nephrologists

Including:

- Survey about need and hopes

- Interview

- Information exchange among young people working in the same

area.

-Coordinator Milkos Molnar email: molnar@medformol.hu

2013 past meetings• ERA-EDTA congress in Istanbul, May 18-21, 2013.

A track was dedicated to Pediatric Nephrology during the whole congress.

Local Organizing Committee

A. Caldas Afonso

Ana Carolina Cordinhã

Ana Teixeira

António Vilarinho

Diana e Silva

Helena Pinto

Joana Garcias

José Esteves

Margarida Abranches

Paula Matos

Scientific Committee

Ryszard Grenda (Chair)

Augustina JankauskieneAnelia BouevaAmal Bourquia Bruno RanchinChrister HolmbergElke Wühl Gema Ariceta Giovanni MontiniJiri Dusek Necla BuyanRadovan BogdanovicRukshana Shroff Sverker Hansson

Congress venue: Alfandega congress centre

Scientific Program

IPNA – ESPN Junior Class (one full-day, September 17)

Joint meeting with the European Working Group on Psychosocial Aspects of Children with

Chronic Renal Failure (EWOPA) (September 18-19)

ESPN master classes (ESPN Working Groups)

ESPN – ERA/EDTA registries

State of the art lectures (plenary sessions)

Symposiums (Debates / Case reports; Best relevant abstract)

Oral Communications and Poster viewing sessions

Symposium “What’s hot – what’s new?” (September 20)

Join ESPN-IPNA!

• Join a Working Group

• Join the Young Nephrologist European Platform

• Send a message to ESPN to tell what you wish from this Scientific Society

• Be an active partner of the Pediatric Nephrology Network!

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