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Aronson, Stanley Maynard was born on May 28, 1922 in New York City. Son of Eliuh and Lena (Hassner) Aronson.
(Stanley M. Aronson, M.D., the founding dean of Brown Univ...)
Stanley M. Aronson, M.D., the founding dean of Brown University's medical school, has been writing newspaper columns for more than a decade for two Rhode Island publications. His Medical Arts' commentaries, compiled in this volume, have graced the pages of The Rhode Island Jewish Voice & Herald with wisdom, humor and a compelling humanity. The columns take readers on a journey into the history, heroes, marvels and maladies of ancient and current medical practices, captured in engaging tales. This collection includes stories of Jewish Nobel Prize winners, Biblical and medical giants as well as notables from the Rhode Island and New York Jewish medical communities. Thus, you will read, through a medical, Jewish and universal perspective, of David and Goliath, the Biblical Miriam, the historic Lewis and Clark, Jonas Salk, Alexander Fleming, Metchnikoff, and Maimonides to name but a few, in these pages. Dr. Aronson also reflects on his own humble origins through recollections of growing up in a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn. He then broadens the experience to an examination of exile, from the Mosaic era to the present. The commentaries are leavened with the wit and wonder of what were often "perilous" medical encounters, hence the title of this collection. It includes chapters on clinical cases in the Scriptures, the evolution of Judaic medicine, Jewish physicians, the historic development of hospitals, Diaspora and disease, and medical curiosities and customs. The author's penchant for the odd detail ("And He smote them with what?) as well as his innate curiosity ("Jonas Salk, sleuth") and questing spirit ("Lewis and Clark: The Lost Tribes of Israel") illuminate this work.
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Aronson, Stanley Maynard was born on May 28, 1922 in New York City. Son of Eliuh and Lena (Hassner) Aronson.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1943. Doctor of Medicine, New York University, 1947. Master of Arts, Brown University, 1971.
Master in Public Health, Harvard University School Public Health, 1981. Doctor of Science (honorary), Tougaloo College, 2005. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Rhode Island College, 2006.
Doctor in Medical Science (honorary), Brown. University, 2007.
Resident Bellevue Hospital, Sydenham Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center for Cancer, Veterans Administration Medical Center, New York City, 1946-1951. Fellow Mount Sinai Hospital, 1951-1954. Faculty Armed Forces Institute Pathology Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, 1951-1954.
Professor pathology, assistant dean State University of New York, Brooklyn, 1954-1970. Professor medical science, dean medicine Brown University, 1970-1981, University professor medical science, 1981-1987, dean medicine emeritus, since 1987. Director laboratories Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, 1965-1970.
Pathologist-in-chief Miriam Hospital, Providence, 1970-1975. Visiting professor community medicine Dartmouth College Medical School, since 1982. Lecturer Yale School Medicine, 1964-1965.
Lecturer pathology Tufts University School Medicine, since 1978. Professional lecturer Brooklyn Health Center, State University of New York, since 1970. Consultant physician neuropathology Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital, Brooklyn, since 1951, National Institutes of Health, since 1962, Rhode Island Hospital, Roger Williams Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Miriam Hospital, Providence Veterans Administration Hospital, Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island Medical Center, Lutheran Medical Center, New York City.
(Stanley M. Aronson, M.D., the founding dean of Brown Univ...)
Commissioner United States Commission Control of Huntington's Disease, 1976-1979. Chairman Legislation Commission Dementia Related to Aging. Vice chairman Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline, since 1993.
President Hospice Rhode Island, since 1989, Interfaith Health Care Ministries, 1989-1991. Member National Advisory Commision on Multiple Sclerosis, 1973-1974, National Institutes of Health Perinatal Research Commission, Joint Commision on Stroke Facilities, medical advisory board National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dysautonomia Foundation, National Tay-Sachs Association, National Fund for Medical Education. Trustee University Health Sciences, Chicago.
Consultant for international epidemiology programs The Rockefeller Foundation, since 1990. Chairman of the board of trustees Jewish Home for Aged, Rhode Island, 1993-1994. President Shalom Housing for Elderly, 1993-1994.
With United States Army, 1942-1946. Member American Medical Association, American Neurological Association, American Association Neuropathology (president 1971-1972), New York Academy of Medicine, American Academy Neurology, American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, International Society Neuropathology, Association American Medical Colls., New York Neurological Society, American Public Health Association, American Osler Society, American College Epidemiology, National Academy Science (commission on nutrition in medical education 1983-1985, commission on dietary guidelines implementation 1988-1990).
Married Betty Ellis, June 3, 1947. Children: Susan, Lisa, Sarah. Married Gale Matheson Holmes, October 12, 2003.