Louis C. Lasagna, MD Biography
- Title:
- Former Dean of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University
- Position:
- Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“[A] rigid, dogmatic attitude toward death is historically, scientifically and morally indefensible.”
Life, Death, and the Doctor, 1968
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Dean Emeritus, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, 2002-2003
- PhD, Honoris Causa, University of Alcala, 1998
- Dean, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, 1984-2002
- ScD, Honoris Causa, Rutgers University, 1983
- ScD, Honoris Causa, Hahnemann Medical School, 1980
- Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1970-1984
- Chairman, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1970-1980
- Founder, Center for the Study of Drug Development, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins University, 1954-1970
- Founder, Clinincal Pharmacology Department, Johns Hopkins University
- Fellowship in Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
- Expert Testimony, Congressional Kefauver hearings
- President, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
- Writer, Director, and Actor, Mighty Lasagna Players, University of Rochester Department of Phamacology Medical and Toxicology
- Member, National Committee to Review Procedures for the Approval of New Cancer and AIDS Drugs
- Education:
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- MD, Columbia University, 1947
- BA, Rutgers University, 1943
- Other:
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- Died Aug. 6, 2003