Our quarterly newsletter keeps you informed on CNTN projects and initiatives.
Below are a few highlights—be sure to check out the full issue below!
In this issue:
- Celebrating Kidney Health Month and World Kidney Day
- CNTN launches new LinkedIn page
- CNTN network member profiles: Arlene Desjarlais and Dwight Sparkes
- Register today for the 2026 CNTN Research Symposium
- New resource highlights workforce strategy
- Decentralized trials guidance released
- Network tools & resources
- Recent publications
Celebrating Kidney Health Month and World Kidney Day
March is Kidney Health Month, and World Kidney Day is on March 12! This year’s theme—“Kidney Health for All: Caring for People, Protecting the Planet”—highlights prevention, early detection, and sustainable kidney care. Hear from researchers and patient partners about patient-centered kidney research and its impact.
Read more about the campaign HERE.
Connect with CNTN on LinkedIn!
The Canadian Nephrology Trials Network (CNTN) is now on LinkedIn. As part of this shift, we will be sunsetting our X (formerly Twitter) account and focusing our social media efforts on LinkedIn.
Follow CNTN on LinkedIn to stay connected to network updates, clinical trial initiatives, and opportunities across the kidney research community in Canada.
Through the page, we’ll highlight multi-centre collaboration and patient partnership in research, share initiatives and opportunities that support trainees and strengthen clinical trials capacity across the network, and promote trial announcements. We’ll also feature network member achievements and create space for connection and collaboration.
If you have updates or materials you’d like shared, please contact CNTN Research Coordinator Omo Enilama at omo.enilama@phc.ca.
Shaping research with lived experience: Arlene and Dwight’s story
Through training, peer review, and collaboration with researchers, patient partners bring lived experience to studies—making research more relevant, accessible, and patient-centered across Canada. Arlene Desjarlais and Dwight Sparkes are two patient partners helping to shape kidney research at the Canadian Nephrology Trials Network (CNTN).