Honorary Members of the Polish Society of Nephrology. Part XVIII — Professor Bruno Watschinger

Abstract

Professor Wojciech Rowiński, the outstanding Polish surgeon and transplantologist, the co-author of the first successful renal transplant in Poland, a great sup­porter of the idea of organ transplants, a former country consultant in clinic transplantology was the character depicted in the last paper on the honorary members of the Polish Society of Nephrology. The eighteenth part of our project is dedicated to a foreign nephrologist known especially to the elder members of our Society. The character to be presented is the distinguished nephrologist from Austria — Bruno Watschinger. In Poland, Watschinger is particularly famous for constructing a new type of an artificial kidney known as the “twin coil”. Another remarkable achievement ascribed to him is the organisation of the Danube Nephrology Symposium also held in Krakow, Poland as well as two congresses of the European Renal Association — European Dialysis and Transplant Association in Vienna, Austria. B. Watschinger’s scientific achievements have left a significant mark on the development of nephrology in Austria and around the world.