News from ERA-EDTA:
ERA-EDTA Congress Madrid
3–6 June 2017
From 3–6 June 2017, IFEMA Feria de Madrid (North Congress Centre), Madrid will be the venue of the 54th ERA-EDTA Congress. During the Congress, ERA-EDTA will offer more than 60 Symposia, 30 Mini-lectures, and 8 ERA-EDTA CME Courses.
The whole spectrum of clinical and translational nephrology, dialysis and transplantation will be covered, as well as the discussion of specific topics such as the relevance of studying large CKD cohorts, the importance of CKD as a clinical and experimental model of premature ageing, renal imaging, renal histopathology, and CKD guidelines, among others. All these exciting themes will be covered by expert speakers from more than 30 countries. For more details, please visit www.era-edta2017.org
European Nephrology Portal (ENP)
Launched at the Vienna Congress, the ERA-EDTA's European Nephrology Portal provides an online hub for the renal community enabling nephrologists and other renal healthcare professionals to connect with the world of kidney and kidney health.
ENP makes scientific content available across multiple ERA-EDTA platforms accessible in one place. With the first version, ENP content will feature speaker materials from ERA-EDTA Congresses and key publications from NDT-Educational, ERA-EDTA working groups, CME courses and ERA-EDTA's Young Nephrologists' Platform. As ENP grows, other content sources will be added, such as literature reviews, ERBP guidelines and statements and articles from the CKJ and NDT journals.
ERA-EDTA members will be the first to access ENP using their ERA-EDTA membership credentials (and have access to all ERA-EDTA content). ERA-EDTA members who were unable to attend the ERA-EDTA Congress in May 2016 can still, via the E-Materials module in ENP, access and review up to 30 presentations from the ERA-EDTA Congress scientific program. Non-ERA-EDTA members will have access to limited content and can only access Congress E-Materials if they attended the Congress.
To visit the European Nephrology Portal website please go to www. enp-era-edta.org
Impact Factor for NDT Reaches New High
According to the latest Journal Citation Reports, NDT's Impact Factor has reached a new high of 4.085, reflecting the growing reputation of the Journal.
Results of the 2016 ERA-EDTA Council Election (Vienna, Austria)
New Ordinary Council Members (2016–2019)
This year, at the ERA-EDTA Congress in Vienna, Austria, Michel Jadoul (France) and Gert Mayer (Austria) completed their three-year term as ordinary members of Council.
Eight members submitted their candidacies in an online election and the two successful candidates announced at the General Assembly on 23 May 2016 were:
Giovambattista Capasso (Italy)
Goce Spasovski (F.Y.R. Macedonia)
Ex-Officio Members
The following candidates were nominated at the Spring Council meeting in Manchester 2016 and approved at the General Assembly. They will begin their terms at the 2017 Congress.
President (2017–2020)
Carmine Zoccali
Secretary-Treasurer (2017–2020)
Ivan Rychlik (Czech Republic)
Editor-in-Chief of NDT (2017–2020)
Denis Fouque (France)
Distinguished Fellow of the ERA-EDTA (FERA)
At the pre-Congress Council Meeting in Vienna on 19–20 May 2016, the FERA title was awarded to Professor F. Keller (Germany) and Professor K. Lhotta (Austria).
Ethics Committee
New Member
On the 23 May 2016, at the General Assembly in Vienna, Sir Netar Mallick (UK) was confirmed as member of the Ethics Committee following his nomination at the Spring Council Meeting in Manchester, 2016.
New Ethics Committee Chair
As Prof. Keller (Germany) had completed his term as Chair of the Ethics Committee the Ethics Committee proposed F.P. Schena (Italy) as the new Chair of the Ethics Committee and was subsequently confirmed at the post-Congress Council Meeting in Vienna on 24 May 2016.
CMEs
23rd Budapest Nephrology School
Budapest (Hungary), 26 August 2016
14th Renal Failure Academy
Timisoara (Romania), 7–8 September 2016
Improving the Care of Patients with ADPKD
Brussels (Belgium), 9 September 2016
Pathogenesis and Treatment of IgA Nephropathy
Tour (France), 16 September 2016
Paris EURECA-m CME Cardiorenal Course
Paris (France), 16–17 September 2016
Pregnancy & Kidney Disease
Lisbon (Portugal), 22 September 2016
Retarding Chronic Kidney Disease Progression Through Comprehensive Nutritional Management
Naples (Italy), 22–23 September 2016
The Bone in CKD
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 23 September 2016
Nephrology Applied Omics
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 23 September 2016
Interventional Nephrology Course
Wroclaw (Poland), 29 September 2016
Management of Fluid Overload in Dialysis Patients
Warszawa, (Poland), 21 October 2016
Introductory Course on Epidemiology
Venue to be determined (in or near Copenhagen Denmark), 4 November 2016
Latest Developments in Transplantation Medicine
Berlin (Germany), 4 November 2016
Challenges for Development of Transplantation in South Eastern Europe
Podgorica (Montenegro) 10–12 November 2016
Diabesity in Renal Transplantation
Sitges, Barcelona (Spain), 2–3 December 2016
Info on how to register for ERA-EDTA CMEs is available at www.ndt-educational.org (click on the ‘LEARNING’ button of the bar menu) - Email: education@era-edta.org