Former Harvard Medical Dean Daniel Tosteson Dies

Jun 03, 2009

Daniel Tosteson, a former dean of Harvard Medical School who served from 1977 to 1997, died from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 84. During his decades at the helm of Harvard Med, Tosteson changed how medicine was taught as he embraced case-based learning, reports the New York Times.

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