To the birthday of Professor A. M. Davison, Editor emeritus of NDT

Tilman Drüeke and Eberhard Ritz

Paris Heidelberg

The Editorial Office of NDT is delighted to inform the readers of our journal that our distinguished editor emeritus and founder of the journal, Professor Alexander Meikle Davison (Leeds) will celebrate his 60th birthday on January 31st 2000.

Having edited the EDTA proceedings from 1981 to 1984, Sandy Davison in collaboration with J. Stewart Cameron (against a background of dire predictions) had the courage to launch Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation as the official journal of the EDTA/ERA in 1985. He was Editor-in-chief from 1985 to 1994 and in this period managed to establish NDT firmly amongst the leading journals in our speciality.

Sandy Davison studied in Edinburgh University (1959–1966) and wrote his MD thesis on `Immunofluorescence in renal disease, a study of 300 consecutive biopsies'. He was House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh to Professor Woodruff, one of the pioneers in renal transplantation. He was also Research Fellow in the Department of Pathology. After postgraduate training in Edinburgh he moved to Leeds in 1974, where the University of Leeds appointed him to a Personal Chair in Nephrology in 1996. He is currently clinical director of the Division of Renal and Liver Diseases at St. James University Hospital. Sandy Davison was instrumental in transforming the St. James unit into one of the UK's major clinical and academic nephrology departments. His wide ranging interests in clinical medicine are reflected by 188 original publications and 27 book chapters. To take just his publications in 1998 the topics commanding his interest ranged from post-transplantation malignancy, renal disease in the elderly, acute interstitial nephritis in the elderly, comparison of parathyroidectomy and parathyroid alcohol injection, continuous veno-venous high flux dialysis and bioelectrical impedance to measure ECV in CAPD patients to cyclosporin withdrawal after renal transplantation.

Sandy Davison has been senior editor of the highly successful second edition of the Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology. He has also devoted considerable time, energy and wisdom to serving the nephrological community in Europe in particular through the ERA–EDTA. He was council member from 1982 to 1984, an elected council member from 1996 onward and is currently president of the association. Also, he has recently completed his term of office as president of the International Society of Artificial Organs. His many important contributions to the international nephrological community have been recognized by, amongst others, an MD honoris causa of the University of Marseille, and honorary membership of the Polish Society of Nephrology, Nephrological Society of New Delhi, India, and the Romanian Society of Nephrology.

Beyond all these brilliant professional achievements Sandy Davison is a fascinating personality who has numerous friends around the globe. We admire his esprit, wisdom and common sense, his faithfulness to his friends and his keen sense of humour, as well as a sympathetic non-ascetic view of those aspects which make life enjoyable. These exceptional achievements would not have been possible without the constant support of his wife Marion.

His successors in the journal take special pleasure in wishing him: ad multos annos.



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