Word: tosteson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...academic societies are designed to prepare students to be "thoughtful and humane physicians, in addition to being well informed and well trained," Dr. Daniel C. Tosteson, dean of the Medical School, said last week...
...School officials have not yet announced the specific increase they will request. However, Dr. Daniel C. Tosteson, the school's dean, said this week Med School fees will rise to make up for an expected decrease in federal support...
While Daniel Tosteson the dean tries to get a grip on the school he heads as well as the affiliated hospitals, Tosteson the scientist is trying to keep a hand in scientific research. He is an authority on biological membranes, and although he now has little time to spend in the lab he directs a research team that includes his wife, Magdalena T. Tosteson. Studying red blood cell membranes, the group is exploring possible links between manic depressive disorders and anomalies in individuals' red cell membranes...
Lithium treatment, Tosteson says, is most often used to aid manic depressives. He says that in many manic depressives the red cell membrane has no system for regulating the transport of lithium. Tosteson hopes to examine the chromosomes of manic depressive individuals to see if there is a correlation between the presence of genes for the mental disorder and the presence of genes for the red cell membrane disorder...
...Tosteson is willing to specify the lines of research he will pursue, he is still quiet on his plans for the Medical School. New deans who have ideas about making changes have to work slowly if they want to succeed at all. Time will show what the dean will accomplish...