Giovanni Di Chiro
Giovanni Di Chiro (October 17, 1926 – August 27, 1997) was an Italian‑American doctor who specialized in brain imaging. He was born in Vinchiaturo, Italy, the second of four children, and earned his medical degree from the University of Naples in 1949. After briefly considering a cardiology career in Switzerland, he switched to radiology after meeting a radiologist on a train to Stockholm, and trained in Sweden from 1949 to 1953.
In 1953 he moved to Boston on a Fulbright Fellowship to work at Boston City Hospital. He joined the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness as a visiting scientist in 1957 and started the Neuroimaging Branch in 1958, serving as its head until his death. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography and sat on the editorial boards of nine other journals.
Di Chiro married Barbara Phillips in 1954, and they had three children: Giovanna, Patrick, and Marco. He died of cancer on August 27, 1997, in Bethesda, Maryland; a memorial service was held there on September 12.
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