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(Hypertension. 1999;34:2-3.)
© 1999 American Heart Association, Inc.

In Memoriam

Jay Michael Sullivan 936–1999

William C. Cushman, MD¹

¹ University of Tennessee College of Medicine

Howard R. Horn, MD²

² University of Tennessee College of Medicine

Michael L. Tuck, MD³

³ University of California at Los Angeles, School of Medicine

	Introduction

 
Jay Michael Sullivan was a gentleman and a scholar. These have been the words used by so many who knew this scientist, teacher, superb clinician, husband, father, and friend when learning of his untimely death. Jay Sullivan died on February 22, 1999, at only 62 years of age, less than two months after experiencing the first manifestations of carcinoma of the pancreas.

Jay Sullivan was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, and grew up in Miami, Florida. He received his bachelor and medical degrees from Georgetown University, where he was valedictorian of his medical school class, graduating in 1962. He then went to Boston, near his birthplace, and spent 12 years at Harvard Medical School and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, where he did his internship and residency in medicine and was Chief Resident in Medicine and a Cardiology fellow. He also had a two-year preceptorship in biological chemistry. In 1970, he joined the Harvard faculty for four years as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. During this time, he was also Director of the Hypertension Unit at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and in 1973–74, he was Director of Medical Services at the Boston Hospital for Women.

One of us (M.L.T.) had the privilege to work under Jay Sullivan as one of his first fellows in his early faculty years at Harvard Medical School, at the beginning of what was to become an extraordinary career in academic medicine. During my fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, I (M.L.T.) selected to work with . . . [Full Text of this Article]