Thomas Martin Barratt CBE FRCP (13 February 1936 – 17 January 2014) was a British paediatrician and professor of paediatric nephrology. Barratt was most notable for developing a specialist service for children with kidney diseases in Britain, bringing peritoneal dialysis, haemodialysis, and later renal transplantation to ever younger children. Barratt was an early advocate for multidisciplinary care and developed a model that was later taken up by many other specialist centres across the world. His research led to a new treatments for many types of childhood kidney diseases., and for research into childhood Nephrotic syndrome and Hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
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13 February 1936 London, England, UK
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Died |
17 January 2014 (aged 77)
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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