Dr. Stanley Aronson was dinner-speaker in October

Posted on August 19, 2009 | Filed Under Past Events

Dr. Aronson

Dr. Stanley Aronson
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A weekly contributing columnist for the Providence Journal, Dr. Aronson is Dean of Medicine Emeritis, Brown University. He was our first dinner speaker of the WACRI season.

An accomplished neurologist, esteemed educator and distinguished author, Aronson is one of the original architects of Brown’s medical school and its founding dean. In addition to his 11 years as dean of medicine, from 1970 to 1981, Dr. Aronson also served as chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine from 1970 to 1975. In 1981,  Dr. Aronson was named a University Professor at Brown.

Dr. Aronson’s numerous community contributions include working with fellow physicians and local clergy to establish the first hospice program in Rhode Island – Hospice Care Rhode Island – and serving as its inaugural president from 1989 to 1991. Dr. Aronson has also served as president of the Interfaith Care Ministries and has worked to incorporate hospice and palliative care into the medical curriculum.

In addition to authoring approximately 400 scientific articles and chapters in medical and biological journals and texts, Dr. Aronson’s compelling essays on medicine and history can be read in the Providence Journal, Brown Medicine, and the Medicine and Health of Rhode Island Journal, of which he is also editor.  (Biography from Brown  University)

For reservations, you may leave a message at our office at The Hope Club  for Yvonne Shilling, our executive director,   401 – 228 – 8657 or email her:  ygshill@yahoo.com.

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