(Hypertension. 2001;38:e27.)
© 2001 American Heart Association, Inc.
In Memoriam |
Vincent Louis DeQuattro, MD, FACP, FACC
1933–2001
Vincent Louis DeQuattro died tragically on August 17, 2001, while snorkeling along the coast of Maui. He was born in Lawrence, Mass. His father was an Italian immigrant, and his mother was Irish immigrant. He completed high school at Pasadena Junior College in 1950. In 1955, he completed his master of science in the Pharmacology and in 1960 he obtained his medical degree, both at George Washington University.
He did his internship/residency at Los Angeles County General Hospital. Between 1962 and 1963, he did a fellowship in hypertension-related cardiovascular disease at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. From 1964 to 1966, he was a clinical investigator at the Experimental Therapeutic Branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda under Albert Sjoerdsma.
His first faculty position was in 1970 as an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Southern California, where he rose to full professor of medicine in 1978. From 1974 to 1981, he was chief of Seventh Floor Medical Complex at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, and from 1978 until his death, Dr DeQuattro was the chief of the hypertension service at the same Institution.
Between 198l and 1982, he performed a fellowship in cardiovascular disease in the Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, and since then he had been a practicing cardiologist as well as internist.
He was a member of several societies, including the Advisory Board of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the