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July 03, 2012
Antony John Wing was born on 2nd May 1933 in Oxford, UK. He was educated at Rugby School, Lincoln College, Oxford and St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School. In his final undergraduate year he had the remarkable good fortune to be an eye witness in May 1954 when Roger Bannister broke ...
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July 03, 2012
Oliver Wrong, one of our Honorary Members and was one of the earliest members and supporters of the Renal Association and was the Secretary from 1961-1966. After undergraduate training in Oxford during the Second World War, and national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Oliver Wrong worked in North ...
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August 31, 2010
Professor James Robson, who was a Renal Association past President, author of a groundbreaking undergraduate textbook of medicine, one of the pioneers of haemodialysis in Britain, and closely involved in the first transplant in the UK in 1960, died on March 14th 2010 at the age of 88. Born ...
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June 24, 2010
‘Jo’ Joekes, a great
pioneering figure in UK nephrology was part of the team which
performed the first haemodialysis for acute renal failure in the UK, and
also undertook the first renal biopsies in the UK. He was Secretary of
the Renal Association from 1956 to 1961, and also Secretary of the first
ISN Congress ...
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