Julio Hernán García, MD: December 22, 1933-November 8, 1998.

Abstract

With the untimely death of Julio H. Garcia, 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. Garcia was born in Armenia, Colombia, and completed his medical education and initial training in pathology in Bogota. 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 …