Stanley Shaldon

Stanley Shaldon (8 November 1931 – 20 December 2013) was a British nephrologist who pioneered several techniques in haemodialysis, including venous access, reuse of dialysis machines, and 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.

Upon his return to the UK from Lagos, Shaldon studied cardiac catheterisation techniques under Sir John McMichael and wrote a Doctor of Medicine thesis on the splanchnic circulation. His thesis was supervised by Dame Sheila Sherlock and won Cambridge's Raymond Horton-Smith Prize. after Sherlock appointed him a lecturer in medicine and the head of a new nephrology unit. Shaldon pioneered the use of haemodialysis to manage renal failure, by designing central venous catheters that could remain in situ within a patient's femoral vein to allow daily dialysis sessions;

Shaldon was one of the founders of the European Renal Association, and received their ERA-EDTA Award in 2011. He authored more than 350 publications over the course of his career. In his retirement, he settled in Monaco, where he died in 2013.