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Daniel C. Tosteson, M.D.
Director
The Washington Advisory Group, an LECG Company
Daniel C. Tosteson, M.D., advises on strategy, governance, and management of research intensive teaching hospitals and academic medical enterprises.
At Harvard University for two decades, Dr. Tosteson was Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Cell Biology, Dean of the Harvard Medical School, and President of the Harvard Medical Center. Prior to that, he was Lowell T. Coggeshall Professor of Medical Sciences and Dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine and Vice President for the Medical Center at the University of Chicago. He is currently the Caroline Shields Walker Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Dean Emeritus of Harvard Medical School.
Following research fellowships at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the National Heart Institute, the Biological Isotope Research Laboratory in Copenhagen, and the Physiological Laboratory in Cambridge, Dr. Tosteson began his academic career as Associate Professor of Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine and was later appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Duke University Medical Center.
Dr. Tosteson has served as President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physiological Society and the Society of General Physiologists, and as Chairman of the Association of American Medical Colleges. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Among many honors and awards, Dr. Tosteson has received the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education of the AAMC in 1991, as well as honorary degrees from Duke, Johns Hopkins, New York, Emory, and other U.S. and foreign universities.
Dr. Tosteson attended Harvard College and graduated from Harvard Medical School. His internship and residency in internal medicine were served at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City
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