Dedicated to the late George D. Nicholson DM (OXF), FRCP (LOND), FACP January 1 1937 – July 17 2016 Physician, Nephrologist, Educator, Researcher, Senior Medical Advisor to Hope Foundation
Professor George Nicholson was born in Guyana on January 1st, 1937. He attended high school at Queen’s College where he displayed academic and sporting excellence becoming Head boy and Captain of the football team. He went on to study Medicine at Oxford University where he continued his sporting pursuits on the rowing team. In 1970, on return to the Caribbean he was appointed Lecturer in Medicine and Consultant Physician in Mona, Jamaica. Years later in 1979 he served as Consultant Nephrologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados and made it his mission to improve healthcare by developing the Renal clinic and the Haemodialysis unit. He put together the team of medical professionals who conducted the first living related renal transplant in the Englishspeaking Caribbean. He was a founding member of the Barbados Kidney Association and the Caribbean Association of Urologists and Nephrologists.
