ISN Pregnancy and Kidney Disease Toolkit

This Toolkit aims to provide evidence-based educational materials. This toolkit is designed for nephrologists and health professionals wishing to increase their knowledge, as well as to teach others effectively on these topics. Whether you deliver a lecture to peers, train residents, or educate multidisciplinary teams, these resources are adaptable to various settings and audiences.

By equipping nephrologists with the tools needed to understand, manage, and treat women with CKD who are planning to conceive or become pregnant, we aim to improve maternal and fetal outcomes and advance care on a global scale. By using and sharing this toolkit, we hope to inspire more clinicians to become champions of obstetric nephrology.

The Faculty and Trainers of the ISN Train the Trainer Program for Pregnancy and Kidney Disease, developed this curriculum, 2023-24. The curriculum aligns with modules within the Pregnancy and Kidney Disease Toolkit released in 2025. The curriculum content and modules will be regularly updated and expanded. The content in the modules is for General Nephrologists, Nephrology Trainees, Nurses and Allied health professionals.

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Help shape the next generation of Obstetric Nephrology experts

We are now accepting expressions of interest to join the 2025–2026 trainer cohort for the ISN Train the Trainer Program – Pregnancy and Kidney Disease.

Selected trainers will play a key role in advancing the field and further developing the ISN Pregnancy and Kidney Disease Toolkit.


Shilpanjali Jesudason

Australia

Michelle Hladunewich

Canada

Dominique Martin

Australia

Dominique is Professor of Health Ethics and Professionalism in the School of Medicine at Deakin University. Her research focuses on ethical issues in organ and tissue donation and transplantation and in nephrology, and on professionalism in healthcare. Dominique currently represents Oceania on the Council of the international Transplantation Society and has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and the Australian Organ and Tissue Authority. She is also a member of the joint ethics task force of ISN-ASN-ERA, Chair of the Asia Pacific Bioethics Education Network, an Associate Editor of Transplantation, and a founding member of the Doha International Academy for Organ Donation and the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group.

Liz Lightstone

UK

Kate Bramham

UK

Alejandra Orozco Guillen

Mexico

Giorgina Barbara Piccoli

France

Valerie Luyckx

Switzerland

Rasha Samir

Egypt

Ghada Ankawi

Saudi Arabia

Andrea Oliverio

USA

Nishanta Tangirala

Australia

Tamara Glavinovic

Canada

Divya Bajpai

India

Kenneth Kapembwa

Zambia

Bala Waziri,

Nigeria

Iara Da Silva

Spain

Priscilla Smith

UK

Angela Makris

Australia

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