WPRO News and the Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The founding dean of Brown University’s medical school, neuropathologist Dr. Stanley Aronson, has died at the age of 92.
The university announced that Aronson died Wednesday in hospice care in Providence.
Brown President Christina Paxton said, “Brown’s medical school and many of the statewide improvements in medical care delivery that grew along with it began with Stan’s arrival in Providence.” She said he was too humble to take credit but was pleased by the school’s growth and development.
Aronson, a New York native, came to Providence in 1969. He launched the medical school in 1972 and was dean from 1973 to 1981. He co-founded the Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island.
Aronson wrote weekly columns in the Providence Journal, including one Jan. 19 considering how changing attitudes toward death led to modern public health research.
