Gavin Cranston Arneil was a Scottish paediatric nephrologist.
12 Facts About Gavin Arneil
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Gavin Arneil was born in 1923 in Bearsden, on the fringe of Glasgow.
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Gavin Arneil's father was a university lecturer and his mother was a teacher.
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Gavin Arneil then joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving as a major for three years.
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Gavin Arneil joined the staff of Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children after graduating.
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Gavin Arneil trained in paediatrics under the mentorship of James Holmes Hutchison, and was eventually appointed a consultant at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
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Gavin Arneil quickly developed an interest in nephrology and in 1950 he established a paediatric renal unit at Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
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Gavin Arneil's unit pioneered the use of cortisone, prednisolone and thiazides in paediatric renal conditions as well as the use of peritoneal dialysis in children with acute kidney injury.
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Gavin Arneil is credited with the near-eradication of rickets from Glasgow, and when the disease began to reappear in Pakistani migrants he helped to create a successful educational cartoon dubbed into Hindi and Urdu.
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Gavin Arneil promoted the BCG vaccine in young children, which led to the disappearance of pre-school tuberculosis.
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Gavin Arneil was a founding member of the European Society of Paediatric Nephrology in 1967.
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Gavin Arneil was involved in the establishment of the International Paediatric Nephrology Association in 1974, serving as its secretary-general from its inception until 1983.