Stanley Shaldon
Stanley Shaldon (8 November 1931 – 20 December 2013)home haemodialysis.
Life and career
Shaldon was born in 1931 in London into a
Sephardic Jewish family; the family name was changed from Schlaff to Shaldon in 1943 during the Second World War. He attended University College School before studying medicine at Queens' College, Cambridge and Middlesex Hospital, completing his studies in 1955. He trained in internal medicine at Middlesex Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital, and from 1957 to 1959 he served at a military hospital in Lagos, Nigeria as a medical specialist.[2]
Upon his return to the UK from Lagos, Shaldon studied
home haemodialysis, allowing patients to self-dialyse at home.[3] He left the Royal Free Hospital in 1966 to establish the National Kidney Centre in London, where chronic haemodialysis patients were trained in home dialysis.[1] He later left the UK for mainland Europe and the United States, working throughout France, Germany and Sweden at various centres.[3][4]
Shaldon was one of the founders of the European Renal Association, and received their ERA-EDTA Award in 2011.[1][4] He authored more than 350 publications over the course of his career.[1] In his retirement, he settled in Monaco, where he died in 2013.[4]
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