Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on November 11, 2006
Rheumatology 2007 46(1):180-181; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel371
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Josep Font (19532006)
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Institut dInvestigacions Biomèdiques August Pí I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Villarroel 170, 08036-Barcelona, Spain
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Dr Josep Font died on 26 July 2006 at the age of 53. His friends, students and colleagues remain profoundly affected by this premature and sudden loss, but wish to pay tribute to his memory and the immense human and professional legacy that he leaves.
Josep Font was born on 5 March 1953 in Barcelona, a city which remained his lifelong home and workplace. Like all Catalans, he loved and felt proud of his city, which he knew like few others. He studied medicine in the Medical Faculty of the University of Barcelona, a stone's throw from his home in the centre