Stanley M. Aronson, the founding dean of Brown Universitys medical school and a weekly contributor to The Providence Journals Monday commentary page, has died at 92.

Aronson died Wednesday morning at the Philip Hulitar Inpatient Center, which is run by Home and Hospice Care of Rhode island. Aronson was a founder of the organization and served on its board.

In 2014, Aronson was honored by Brownwith a $3 million research fund named in his honor.The fund is used to support innovative investments in medical education and research.

Dr. Aronson is an adored giant of in the worlds of medicine and medical education and also in the life of Brown and Rhode Island, Chancellor Thomas J. Tisch said at the time of the funds establishment.

Aronsons column typically dealt with history and medicine. His first column ran in December of 1992. On the occasion of his 1,000th essay in January of 2011, he joked that he had clung to this Monday morning site, much like herpes tenacious but only rarely fatal.

Arthur Robbins, a friend of Aronson and a member of the Butler Hospital Foundation, wrote the following about Aronson in the Providence Journal in 2013:

I could go on at length about Dr. Aronsons achievements as a pioneering neurologist, teacher and clinician, as the founding dean of the Alpert School of Medicine, eradicating Tay Sachs, to be the first to identify Lewy Body Dementia, just to name a few. But, suffice it to say, Stan has dedicated his career to championing those suffering from the most debilitating neurological disorders and mentoring generations of physicians.

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Stanley Aronson, Brown medical school founder, Providence Journal columnist, dies