We congratulate Professor Robin Eady who was awarded an MBE in the recent New Year’s Honours list.

Professor Eady FMedSci, who is Emeritus professor of Dermatopathology at King’s College London received the award ‘For services to Dermatology and voluntary service to Governance in the Charitable Sector’. He was a key witness at the Witness Seminar on ‘The History of Dialysis in the UK’, speaking from his unique perspective as not only a physician, but also as a long-time dialysis patient. He developed kidney failure as a clinical medical student in 1962, he had almost two decades of home dialysis before receiving a cadaveric renal transplant.