title: John Kelso Ormond
text: # John Kelso Ormond
  
  John Kelso Ormond was an American urologist who rediscovered retroperitoneal fibrosis (also known as Ormond's disease in 1948.)
  
  ## Biography
  
  He was born on March 25, 1886, in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. He died February 25, 1978, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  
  