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Nephrology (from Ancient Greek nephros 'kidney' and -logy 'the study of') is a specialty for both adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kidney health, and the treatment of kidney disease, from diet and medication to renal ...
The Renal Association established the UK Renal Registry (UKRR) in 1995. The UKRR team manage data collection, analysis and reporting on approximately 8,000 new patients, 67,000 existing patients on RRT and on about 500,000 patients with an acute kidney injury each year. Data collated from renal centres and hospital laboratories is used to ...
He also worked on kidney transplantation, and wrote on the history of nephrology. [2] He was president of the European Society of Paediatric Nephrology from 1975 to 1998, [ 3 ] the European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA/EDTA) from 1984 to 1987, [ 4 ] the UK Renal Association from 1992 to 1995, [ 5 ] and ...
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He became professor of nephrology at UCL Medical School, London and the Royal Free Hospital. [3] [4] He holds appointments at The London Clinic, [3] and the King Edward VII Hospital, London. [5] He was Head of the Medical Household to Queen Elizabeth II from 2005 to 2014, [2] [6] and also occupied the position of Physician to the Queen. [3]
Richard Henry Reeve White (6 November 1926 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 10 December 2020) was a paediatric nephrologist, [a] [2] emeritus Professor of Paediatric Nephrology from the University of Birmingham [3] [4] [5] morphologist and archivist for British Association for Paediatric Nephrology.
Arthur Arnold Osman (24 May 1893 – 20 April 1972) was a British nephrologist.Osman was one of the first physicians to specialize entirely in the management of renal disorders; the first to recognize that nephrology needed to become a specialty (1930s); published profusely; the first physician to style himself a ‘nephrologist’ (1945); founded the first nephrological society in the world ...
Sir Peter John Ratcliffe, FRS, FMedSci (born 14 May 1954) is a British physician-scientist who is trained as a nephrologist. [1] [2] [3] He was a practising clinician at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine and head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2016.