This year has brought to the Council for
High Blood Pressure Research the passing of many of its original
founders who were responsible for worldwide recognition of systemic
arterial hypertension as a major disease that must be
understood more clearly and treated effectively. Dr James Conway was
one such person, who spent an active and fulfilling clinical and
investigative career in Great Britain and the United States. He died on
May 25, 1998, at the age of 76 after a long illness, having imparted
his great talents, experience, and warm personality to many of us.
Most recently, Jim Conway was honorary consultant
cardiologist to the John Radcliffe Hospital of Oxford University. He
was highly respected and much loved by his colleagues, patients, and
friends and will be missed for his generosity, enthusiasm, and
delightful sense of humor. For the past 18 years he worked at Oxford,
never really retired, and he remained a father figure to many British,
American, and other clinical research fellows in Great Britain and the
United States.
Dr Conway was born in Zimbabwe but was educated at Cambridge and
St. Bartholomews Hospital, qualifying in 1946, after which he received
PhD and MD degrees from London and Cambridge Universities,
respectively. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of
London. His first career was as a senior lecturer at Charing Cross
Hospital Medical School, and then in 1956 he moved to the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor as Associate Professor of Medicine, where he
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.
In Memoriam
James Conway 1921–1998
1 University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital,
Oxford, UK
2 Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation,
New Orleans, La