Tony Goovaerts was nurse manager of the Home Haemodialysis, the PD and the Pre-treatment Counselling Programme, and of a self-care haemodialysis satellite unit of the Cliniques St. Luc in Brussels, Belgium. He was for many years a Committee member of the EDTNA/ERCA (European Dialysis and Transplant Nurses Association/European Renal Care Association), President of the XX Annual EDTNA/ERCA Conference in Brussels, Belgium, was a co-founder of the WFRC (World Foundation for Renal Care) and its Vice-President from 1996 to 2002. Tony has published several papers, given presentations at several international conferences and participated in many educational activities in developing countries. In 2017 he received the“Barbara Prowant Lifetime Achievement Award” Division of Nephrology, University of Missouri, Seattle, USA. Tony is an independent dialysis nursing care consultant.