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Fruitful Collaboration of Physician/Physiologist and Engineer in the Treatment of Renal Disease
Author(s) -
Sargent John A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
seminars in dialysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1525-139X
pISSN - 0894-0959
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-139x.1999.90214.x
Subject(s) - citation , medicine , medical literature , medical library , library science , computer science , pathology
I first met Frank Gotch in the Fall of 1967 when I was employed at Dow Chemical in Walnut Creek, California and he was the director of the University of California Renal Center at San Francisco General Hospital. My responsibilities at Dow were to run the pilot plant that produced prototype hollow-fiber dialyzers for testing by his pioneering dialysis program. In addition, I was responsible for making production improvements to assure the future supply of these new dialyzers. I did not realize it at the time but we were embarking on a collaboration that has lasted for over 30 years.