The ISPD is pleased to announce the second round of the ISPD Fellowship Program for 2019 is now open. The deadline to submit applications is 30th September, 2019.

Do you want to know how this experience can be? Read this article about two ISPD fellows from Nigeria getting trained in Colorado.

Click here to view full details about the program, the eligibility, and the application process.

Ms. Obayori Christianah Olufunke says about her Fellowship at Anschutz Medical Campus Aurora, Colorado (USA) between October and December, 2018: “My fellowship began with the mandatory HR Dept formalities and ID printing, followed by an orientation to the Dept in person by Prof Isaac Teitelbaum. I was given opportunities to attend Renal Clinics (out-patients) along with the concerned consultants”

During this training, she was  given the opportunity to have surgical experiences in the following procedures at the operating theatre:

• Laparoscopic PD catheter placement
• Laparoscopic PD catheter revision
• Arteriovenous Fistula creation
• Arteriovenous Graft placement
• Arteriovenous Fistula revision

The majority of the days were basically on demonstration/teachings on PD procedures:

• Starting PD
• Taking Care of Catheters and Exit Site to Help Prevent PD Infections
• Demonstration  of aseptic techniques during PD exchanges
• Teaching/demonstration of steps of safe PD
• Managing fluid on PD
• Making decisions of care at home by the clients
• Eating well On PD

The later days of the training was concluded on festive note where she and her colleague had dinner and Christmas party with both the Coordinator and the entire dialysis team.

After completing this fellowship, Ms Obayori Christianah Olufunke hopes to establish a PD unit in Nigeria  with the following goals:

• To provide PD to adult and paediatric  ESRD adult patients who choose this option.
• To provide training for interested physicians within and outside this hospital on PD
• To develop national and international partnership with organisation/institution with similar goals.
• To conduct research capable of improving service and patient outcome.

They also hope to partner with the University of Colorado towards this goal, which would be a wonderful culmination of this ISPD fellowship!

Ms Obayori Christianah Olufunke and Mr Oguntade Banjo Hameed,
with the staff of the Universtity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver

Mr Oguntade Banjo Hameed from Federal Teaching Hospital Ido-Ekiti says:

“I’d applied for this training under the supervision of Prof Isaac Teitelbaum at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver. Colorado, United State of America. Prof Isaac is a wonderful man and an amazing teacher. He assumed his supervisory role long before I arrived in America as he was helpful all through the form filling periods and visa processes”

Mr Hameed was in Colorado for 3 months commencing October 2018. He is happy to have learnt the basics of PD, catheter insertion, patient training and management of complications on PD.

On his return, a PD team has been constituted and preparations to offer PD as a therapy to patients is being done in right earnest.

The Nominating Committee, chaired by Prof Joanne Bargman is starting the process to elect the next team of ISPD Officers, Council Members, Chapter and Committee Chairs/Members.

The positions that will be open for election (with terms) are:

• President Elect (2 years)
• Secretary (2 years)
• Treasurer (2 years)
• Oceania Region Representative (4 years)
• Nurse Representative (4 years)
• (2x) Asia Region Representatives (4 years)
• Eastern Europe Region Representative (4 years)
• Western Europe Region Representative (4 years)
• North America Region Representative (4 years)

If any ISPD member wishes to present their candidature, and/or nominate someone else for one of the positions, please kindly send an email to Prof Joanne Bargman (through the ISPD Secretariat) before August 4 2019. Elections will take place in the first quarter of 2020.

The Nursing Liaison Committee (NLC) is now chaired by Ms Helen Hurst and has been in regular contact via teleconferencing to make plans and develop a strategy for the nurse liaison committee. Three of the members are now on the Programme Committee for ISPD 2020 and are looking forward to help deliver an exciting programme. The group regular produce replies as a collaborative to ‘ask the expert questions’ posed on the ISPD website. We have been allocated funding to use within the committee to support nurses to attend conferences and in particular to attend the Council meetings. The committee are contacted regularly by International nurses for advice and signposting, the group can offer support to nurses globally with an interest in PD. Members of the committee are also actively involved in many other initiatives connected to ISPD including guideline development and publications.

We are keen to work more closely with the other committees and will endeavour to contribute to ISPD over the coming years to acknowledge and grow the nursing voice within the ISPD Council.

TEACH-PD
A Targeted Education ApproaCH to improve Peritoneal Dialysis outcomes
Co-Principal Investigators: Professor Josephine Chow & Professor Neil Boudville

The newly established Communication and Media Committee (CMC) of the ISPD, chaired by Dr. KS Nayak, is responsible for communicating the activities of the Society and educational issues regarding peritoneal dialysis to the members of ISPD, PD community, medical professionals related to PD, patients on dialysis and their families, and the general public.

The Committee will maximize and optimize the appropriate usage of online platforms such as the website and our newsletters, social media to disseminate information to support the objectives, goals and initiatives of the Society. Some of the developing initiatives through the CMC include:

• ISPD Newsletter: Yeoungjee Cho as Editor with Mayoor Prabhu as Deputy Editor  will work in close co-ordination with the Chair(Nayak) and the Secretariat (Miguel) and solicit inputs from all members who literally come from every major region/continent of the world.
• NephJC Collaboration: NephJC is an extremely active and popular nephrology journal club that uses Twitter to discuss the research, guidelines, and editorials that drive nephrology. Nikhil Shah has been nominated by them to represent them in the CMC- ISPD.
• ISPD Website: The CMC is devising strategies in how it can contribute towards increasing the ‘hits’ the ISPD website gets and help the Secretariat in its maintenance.
• Upcoming Meetings: The CMC-ISPD shortly plans to co-ordinate with the Organising Committees of the upcoming Conferences of the ISPD in disseminating awareness before and during the event. Particular emphasis will be on the Joint ISPD-EuroPD 2020 Congress, Glasgow, where the Committee plans to closely with the Congress in popularising it in the local media (press and electronic), the nephrology community to maximise attendance. The Conference coverage of scientific and other activities will be planned using various Social Media platforms.

The 9th Asia Pacific Chapter Meeting of the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (APCM-ISPD 2019) will be held at the Nagoya Congress Center in Japan from September 5 to 7, 2019. The conference theme will be “Peritoneal Dialysis: Recent Advances and Enhancing knowledge.”

The aims for this conference are both to convey the latest discoveries as efficiently as possible and to increase the number of educational sessions to reaffirm and discuss actual practice. In addition to lectures, the training sessions will also include opportunities for discussion in the form of case conferences, and we hope to incorporate the use of answer pads to make them interactive. As Japan’s population continues to age, we also hope to advance the debate on building support systems, including assisted PD.

Nagoya, which is located in central Japan, has excellent domestic and international transportation links. There are direct flights from many Asian cities, as well as from Narita and Haneda airports in Tokyo and Osaka’s Kansai Airport. The city can also be reached from Tokyo and Osaka in a short time by the Shinkansen bullet train. There are numerous tourist attractions in the area, and Kyoto, Japan’s best-known tourist destination, is only approximately 30 minutes away by Shinkansen.

The APCM-ISPD 2019 Organizing Committee, led by Professor Yasuhiko Ito, the Congress President, has put every effort into organizing a conference that will be fulfilling for all who attend. We look forward to seeing all of you there.

The ISPD is grateful to Max Dratwa and Christian Verger for translating the 2019 ISPD access guideline: “Creating and Maintaining Optimal Peritoneal Dialysis Access in the Adult Patient” into French, on behalf of the Registre de dialyse péritonéale de langue Française (RDPLF).

All ISPD guidelines available HERE.

The May/June issue of PDI will include the updated guidelines on “Creating and Maintaining Optimal Peritoneal Dialysis Access in the Adult Patient”. But you can already access them on the Guidelines section of our website. These updated guidelines have the potential to change practice in your center, according to one of the authors, Dr Frank J.M.F. Dor.

This guidelines are created by the Standards and Guidelines Committee of our society. Special thanks to the leaders of the committee, Dr Edwina A. Brown and Dr Javier de Arteaga, and to the authors John H. Crabtree, Badri M. Shrestha, Kai-Ming Chow, Ana E. Figueiredo, Johan V. Povlsen, Martin Wilkie, Ahmed Abdel-Aal, Brett Cullis, Bak-Leong Goh, Victoria R. Briggs, Edwina A. Brown, and Frank J.M.F. Dor.