UK Contributions to KI Nephrology Forum

July 1978 – December 2005

Kidney International (KI) was the premier nephrology journal in the world from its first appearance in 1970 , at least until JASN ( Journal of the American Society of Nephrology) started publication in 1990, and began to match KI’s high impact.

Nephrology Forum was first published in KI in 1978 and became a high profile regular feature of the journal.

The scheme for Nephrology Forum was based on the concept of ‘grand rounds’ in which discussion of a clinical case was the basis for an expert review of the impact of current research perspectives on the clinical problem. The Forum was presented to a live audience and the published article included a transcript of the discussion which followed the presentation.

Nephrology Forum was developed and edited by nephrologists from Boston (Jerome Kassirer, John Harrington) and Chicago (Jordan Cohen). Kassirer stood down when he became Editor in Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, and was replaced by Nicholas Madias (also of Boston). In this era the Editor in Chief of KI always came from the United States. Thus it is not unexpected that the range of invited discussants had a significant North American predominance (78%), 17% came from Europe, and only 5% from the rest of the world. The preponderance of US discussants is also partly explained by the need to contain the cost of organising the necessary live presentations and discussions.

Nevertheless the UK ‘punched above its weight’ in Nephrology Forum, contributing 15 of the 59 invited from Europe.

They were:

1979	Stewart Cameron	Guy’s	Pathogenesis and treatment of membranous nephropathy
1979	Martin Lockwood	Hammersmith	Lymphoma, cryoglobulinemia and renal disease
1981	Hugh de Wardener	Charing Cross	Idiopathic edema role of diuretic abuse
1987	Christopher Redman	Oxford	Hypertension in pregnancy
1987	JIS Robertson	Glasgow	Salt, volume and hypertension
1990	David Taube	St Mary’s	Immunoadsorption in the sensitized transplant recipient
1993	Peter Ratcliffe	Oxford	Molecular biology of erythropoeitin
1995	Christopher Winearls	Oxford	Acute myeloma kidney
1997	Michael Watson	Edinburgh	Complications of polycystic kidney disease
2001	John Savill	Edinburgh	Apoptosis in post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
2001	Caroline Savage	Birmingham	ANCA-associated renal vasculitis
2002	Peter Maxwell	Belfast	Novel erythropoiesis-stimulating protein in the management of
2003	Charles Pusey	Hammersmith	Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease
2005	John Feehally	Leicester	Ethnicity and renal disease
2005	Meguid El-Nahas	Sheffield	The global challenge of chronic kidney disease

Last Updated on April 28, 2024 by John Feehally