Founded 1963 Focus Nephrology, Dialysis Area served Worldwide | Type Medical Charity Location England and Wales Members over 7500 | |
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The European Renal Association – European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) is Europe's leading organisation for clinicians and scientists in nephrology, dialysis, renal transplantation and related areas.
The organisation publishes two scientific journals, NDT - Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation and CKJ - Clinical Kidney Journal, a newsletter, Follow Us, and an online newsletter, ERA-EDTA Flash. It has an educational website, NDT-Educational, an Educational Online Portal, the European Nephrology Portal (ENP) and holds an annual congress in a different European city each year.
Activities
The encouragement of medical education in Europe, and in developing countries throughout the world is one of the key missions of the ERA-EDTA. This is achieved through CME Courses, Compact Primers, Fellowship Programmes and Grants. European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) is the ERA-EDTA advisory board which discusses and defines the future of European nephrology recommendations and guidance. The ERA-EDTA Registry collects and analyses data on renal replacement therapy via the national and regional renal registries in Europe and distributes the resulting information through registry reports presented at ERA-EDTA Annual Congresses, publications in nephrology journals and via the ERA-EDTA website.
The ERA-EDTA has recently launched the new European Nehrology Portal (ENP), an important educational Website with Congress and Courses presentations, Hot Topics and News in Nephrology, and more content.
The ERA-EDTA actively promotes research through its Research Programme, its Fellowship Programme and its Scientific Working Groups: EUropean REnal and CArdiovascular Medicine Working Group (EURECA-m), ERA-EDTA Immunonephrology Working Group, Working Group on Inherited Kidney Disorders (WGIKD), European Dialysis Working Group (EUDIAL), Developing Education Science and Care for Renal Transplantation in European States Working Group (DESCARTES), CKD-MBD Working Group, Diabesity Working Group, and European Renal Nutrition Working Group. It also endorses the European Uremic Toxin working group of the ESAO (EUTox).