David Kerr (nephrologist)

Professor David Nichol Sharp Kerr CBE, FRCP, FRCPE (1927–2014) was a British nephrologist.

Kerr was born on 27 December 1927 in Hackney, London, England.[1]

He attended George Watson's Boys School, Edinburgh, and then the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained his MB ChB with Honours in 1951.[2] He subsequently undertook an MSc in Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin.[2]

He undertook National Service as a surgeon-lieutenant with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1953 to 1955.[1]

He worked at University of Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School, where he rose to the position of professor of renal medicine, from 1968 to 1983,[2] and Hammersmith Hospital, where he was both professor of renal medicine and dean from 1984 to 1992.[2][3]

He served as editor of the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London from 1994 to 1998.[1]

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1991, and delivered the 1968 Goulstonian lecture and the 1983 Lumleian lecture.[1]

He died on 20 April 2014.[4]