Associate Professor Eduard Neubauer: the first nephrologist in Slovak Republic

AssociateProfessor Eduard Neubauer, MD, PhD. worked from 1945 to the end of 1964 at the Department of Internal Medicine of Faculty Hospital and Medical School of P. J. afrik University in Kosice, which was led by Professor Frantiek Pr. During this period he was dealing with clinical and experimental nephrology, as the first in Kosice and in Slovak Republic also. In 1954 he founded the Clinical Nephrological Laboratory according to the model of Prague laboratories led by ProfessorJan Brod. He devoted himself to functional examination of kidneys. He was especially interested in clearance methods in the diagnosis and treatment of renal diseases and hypertension. He published altogether 55 scientific works in domestic and international journals. In December 1964 he left Czechoslovakia and went with his wife to Canada. After retirement he lived in Ottawa, where he died in 1983.