Past Members of the Renal Association

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  • Professor James Robson (1921-2010)

    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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  • Dr. Mark ‘Jo’ Joekes (1914-2010)

    ‘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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