1950s - Burrow

Dean Emeritus Gerard N. Burrow, M.D. ’58, HS ’66, has been named president and CEO of the Sea Research Foundation, the not-for-profit organization that oversees Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration. Burrow will work to extend the foundation’s mission of “education and research, with entertainment at the center” by supporting new technologies to bring the experience of the sea to people on land. Burrow was an intern and resident in internal medicine at Yale, and a fellow here in endocrinology. He served on the Yale faculty before becoming the Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor and chair of medicine at the University of Toronto, then vice chancellor and dean of the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Burrow was dean of the Yale School of Medicine from 1992 to 1997.