The kidney transplant program Dr. Joel Sherlock helped to start at Stony Brook University Hospital allowed people to live a life free of dialysis, a colleague said.

"Joel was a nephrologist, a medical kidney doctor, and he helped us do two things," said Dr. Wayne Waltzer, a urologist and the hospital's director of renal transplant. "One, to set up our own organ procurement organization on Long Island. And two, he started referring ... his dialysis patients to Stony Brook to transplantation.

"He helped start a program on Long Island that has now served literally thousands of people," he said.

Sherlock, of Northport, died on Sept. 14 at age 87.

He was born on Dec. 21, 1937, in Jersey City. His wife, Kathleen, and daughter, Maureen Molin, described him as "inquisitive" and "studious."

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