La Nefrología en el hospital militar central de bogota: 50 AÑOS

Abstract

In 2012, the Division of Nephrology at Hospital Militar Central (HMC) of Bogotá will complete fifty years of its creation and to commemorate this date we have carried out a review of the history of the Nephrology Division at HMC and the high impact it has had on the development of the nephrology in Colombia. The Division of Nephrology at HMC was created in 1962 by the teacher and professor José María Mora Ramírez, formerly linked to the hospital since 1955 as Chief of the Internal Medicine Department and after receiving training in nephrology at Cleveland Clinic with Willem Kolff, father of the artificial kidney. According to the aforementioned, during these five decades the department and those who have constituted it have been guidelines and bastions in the development of Colombian nephrology which they have deeply influenced, and have shaped a great deal of nephrologists who have their specialty practice in the country.