Belding Hibbard Scribner

Belding H. Scribner ( born January 18, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, † June 19, 2003 in Seattle, Washington) was an American physician.

Belding Scribner in 1960 developed at Washington University in Seattle an interface ( shunt) to the blood vascular system of a patient ( " Scribner shunt" ).

This patient was implanted with renal failure, an artificial blood vessel made of Teflon in the forearm. This artificial vessel the first time allowed a longer hemodialysis for several months. The terminal renal failure has been characterized for the first time really treatable. Previously had glass tubes are placed into the blood vessels, which was very painful and damaging to the vessels so that the procedure could be carried out only a few times.

The first patient, who was treated in 1960 by Scribner with the shunt technique, called Clyde Shields. He survived his chronic renal failure over eleven years and died in 1971 from heart disease.

For his achievements Belding Scribner in 2002 was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research. As early as 1969 he had received a Gairdner Foundation International Award.

Scribner drowned 82 -year-old in that lake, which he crossed on the way to work every day in a canoe.