Drs. Henry and Laura Tenckhoff were both born in Germany.  Henry remained there through his medical school training while Laura's family fled Germany to live in Australia in the late 1930s.  Laura and Henry later met in America as physicians in Boston, married in England, and then returned permanently to Seattle in the early 1960s.  Dr. Henry Tenckhoff, as a fellow with Dr. Scribner, studied uremic neuropathy and worked with Dr. Fred Boen to develop the chronic Peritoneal Dialysis program.  He discusses early chronic dialysis in Seattle, Peritoneal Dialysis and the Tenckhoff catheter in this interview.

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DWM:  Well today is Tuesday, September the 15th, 2009 and I'm in Seattle, Washington visiting with Doctors Tenckhoff today in their home in Seattle and I very much appreciate you all letting me come today to talk to you about medicine and particularly this history of dialysis that I know you are involved in, Dr. Tenckhoff.  So, I want to start with talking with you Dr. Henry Tenckhoff about where you were born and raised and I might also you that question too, if you don't mind. .....