Stanley Maynard Aronson, MD 1922–2015

Stanley Maynard Aronson died on January 28, 2015, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was 92 years old. During his long career, he had been Professor of Pathology at Downstate Medical Center, Director of Laboratories at Kings County Hospital, Chief of Pathology at the Miriam Hospital, and Chairman of Pathology and Founding Dean of the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from the City College of New York and New York University Medical School. He trained in neuropathology under Abner Wolf at Columbia and then did bench research on polio with Gregory Schwartzman at Mount Sinai. For a greater description of these early years, see his autobiography (1). In 1954, he accepted a position at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, where he established the Division of Neuropathology and had a National Institutes of Health–funded training program in neuropathology. He was also the Dean for Financial Aid at the Medical School. He trained a generation of neuropathologists, …