Anthony Armand Malizia Jr. MD

Anthony A. Malizia Jr. M.D. age 58 of Atlanta, Georgia, died Thursday, August 11, 2011. Dr. Malizia was born in Atlanta on May 21, 1953, the son of Rosalie Malizia and the late Anthony A. Malizia. He graduated from Georgia Military Academy (now Woodward Academy) and then graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tulane University before attending the Medical College of Georgia, where he received an AMA Education Research Fellowship. He did his internship and residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he won the Minnesota Urologic Society Resident Research Award. He was certified in urology by the National Board of Medical Examiners and American Board of Urology and remained so throughout his distinguished career in urology. He served as Consultant to the Gastroenterology and Urology Devices Panel of the FDA from 1990-93. He was a member of the Clinical Faculty at Emory University School of Medicine from 1983 until 1993 and won the Teaching Award in consecutive years from 1985 through 1988. He served on the Board at Woodward Academy for many years. He also served on the faculty at the Mayo Medical School, Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, and he was a Research Scientist at Yerkes Regional Primate Center. He served as Secretary-Treasurer, Program Chairman, and President of the Atlanta Urological Society.

Dr. Malizia had a solo practice of urology in Atlanta from 1984 until 2009 when he joined the Malizia Clinic, a 501(c)(3) urologic clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, which he founded and for which he served as President and CEO through June of this year. Dr. Malizia’s work was published 34 times (16 papers and 18 abstracts), and he received a U.S. Patent in 1988 for a medical device invention. Dr. Malizia will be remembered by his family, friends, patients, and colleagues for his compassion and his dedication to the highest standard of patient care and professionalism in his chosen field of urology.

He was intensely devoted to his family whom he loved dearly. He was very proud of his daughters for who they are as well as for all they have accomplished. The family will cherish the happy memory of his daughter Alexandra’s wedding earlier this summer at Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the reception that followed at the Corcoran Museum of Art, where family and friends gathered in a spirit of joyous celebration.

Dr. Malizia is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; his children, Kathryn and Alexandra; his son-in-law, Stephen Kavulich; his sisters, Marie Malizia Young and Rosalie Malizia Meropol; his brother, David Malizia; his mother, Rosalie Price Malizia; his brothers-in-law, Nils Young and Jeff Meropol; his sister-in-law, Victoria Peacock Malizia; and his many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be held at Patterson's Spring Hill Funeral Home at 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 13, 2011, with the Reverend Charles Carter officiating. The family will receive friends at Spring Hill before the service at noon. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Prostate Cancer Foundation (www.pcf.org). Online condolences may be made at hmpattersonspringhill.com.