| Summary: | Thoracic surgeon and professor Dr. Julius W. Garvey was born on September 17, 1933 in Kingston, Jamaica, to United Negro Improvement Association founder Marcus Garvey, and activist Amy Jacques Garvey. Garvey earned his B.S. degree from McGill University in Montr al, Canada in 1957, and his M.D., C.M. degree from McGill University Faculty of Medicine in 1961. In 1962, he began his residency in surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital of New York, going on to practice thoracic and vascular surgery at numerous hospitals in greater New York, as an attending surgeon. He worked as a professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and State University of New York-Stony Brook. He became chief of thoracic and vascular surgery at Queens Hospital Center in 1993, and chief of vascular and thoracic surgery at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in 2000.
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