Julian I. Kitay ’48

Julian — physician, medical researcher, educator — was born August 29, 1927, in Kearny, N.J., and died Nov. 1, 2020, in Cary, N.C., after a long illness.

He graduated cum laude from both Princeton in 1948 and, after brief military service, in 1954 from Harvard Medical School. He did clinical training at Yale and Columbia Medical Schools and then began a distinguished career in teaching and research in endocrinology, first on the medical faculty at the University of Virginia and later at the University of Texas medical school in Galveston, where he was professor of internal medicine, physiology, and biophysics.

He authored approximately 100 peer-reviewed publications in endocrinology and related fields. He also served a term as chairman of medical education in the Association of American Medical Colleges. For pastimes he became an accomplished fly-fisherman and craft woodworker.

Julian is survived by his wife of 47 years, Deanna; their son Steve; and grandson Alex.