Nephrology in Mexico started in 1955 with the opening of the nephrology department at Mexico’s National Heart Institute, where the first nephrology training program began in 1958. Pediatric nephrology care was first offered at Mexico’s Federico Gomez Children’s Hospital in 1953, among the first pediatric nephrology programs in the world. Kidney transplantation began in 1963 at the IMSS General Hospital. The Sociedad Mexicana de Nefrologia, the first Mexican nephrology society, was established in 1967, followed by the publication of Nefrologia Mexicana, its official journal, in 1980.
