(Stroke. 1999;30:183-184.)
© 1999 American Heart Association, Inc.
In Memoriam |
Julio Hernán García, MD
December 22, 1933–November 8, 1998
1 Department of Neurology,
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau,
Barcelona, Spain
2 Department of Neurology,
Boston University,
Boston, Massachusetts
With the untimely death of Julio H. García, MD, the neurological and stroke community in the United States and abroad has lost an esteemed colleague and a respected researcher. Julio died on November 8, 1998, as a result of subarachnoid hemorrhage from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm.
Julio H. García was born in Armenia, Colombia, and completed
his medical education and initial training in pathology in
Bogotá. He then emigrated to the United States at age 26 to
further his instruction in pathology, eventually becoming a
neuropathologist. His mentor in neuropathology was Stanley M. Aronson,
with whom Julio always maintained close ties. His career subsequently
took him to the Medical College of Virginia in 1964, the University of
Tennessee in 1967, and Baylor College of Medicine in 1970, during which
time he was developing a growing interest in the neuropathology of
cerebrovascular diseases. In 1971, he became Head of the Division of
Neuropathology at the University of Maryland. In this capacity, and
over the following 8 years, he produced a number of important
publications in the area of the neuropathology of stroke. He became
interested in the development of experimental stroke models, always
directed by the idea of using these models for the testing of
clinically relevant problems. Following a year's stay in Bonn,
Germany, as a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Senior US
Scientist Award, he continued his studies of human and experimental
neuropathology of stroke at the University of Alabama in Birmingham,
where he became the Director of