Honorary Members of the Polish Society of Nephrology Part VII. Professor Andrzej Manitius

Abstract

In this issue of Forum Nefrologiczne we are pleased to continue a series of publications started in 2013 and describing the Honorary Members of the Polish Society of Nephrology. The series started with the presentation of the first President of the Society, professor Tadeusz Orłowski, the renowned internist, nephrologist and transplantologist. The article published in the previous issue of Forum portrayed the world-famous nephrologist, the American — Franklin Harold Epstein. This work sets to present professor Andrzej Manitius, the co-founder of the Polish Society of Nephrology, the former Head of the Renal Diseases Department at the Medical Academy in Gdańsk, the creator of the first dialysis centre in Northern Poland, and last but not least, the person of great contribution in the development of the Polish nephrology and dialysis treatment. The suggested order of presentation of the outstanding representatives of nephrology is by no means accidental as professors Andrzej Manitius and Franklin Epstein remained in very close co-operation being close friends as well. The would frequently pay visits to each other’s clinics, they wrote numerous scientific works on essential subjects that were later published in renowned journals.