In Memoriam Jacques Genest Sr, C.C., MD, MACP, FRCPC 1919–2018

Dr Jacques Genest Sr, a "great" of hypertension research in the 20^th Century, passed away peacefully on 5 January 2018, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 98. He is survived by Estelle, his wife, and his children Paul, Suzanne, Jacques Jr, Marie and Hélène, 12 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. Jacques Genest Sr was born in Montreal and having finished his medical studies at the University of Montreal, specialized in endocrinology and nephrology at Harvard hospitals in Boston, at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, and at the Rockefeller University in New York.

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