Daniel Federman

Daniel David Federman, MD (1928 – September 6, 2017) was Carl W. Walter Distinguished Professor of Medicine and the Dean for Medical Education at Harvard Medical School. He had helped transform medical education at through its New Pathway curriculum around the early 1990s, and his groundbreaking work helped create the field of genetic endocrinology. He also worked for over thirty years from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital in the Longwood Medical Area.

Before he was Dean for Medical Education, he had served as Dean for Students and Alumni. He later became Senior Dean for Alumni Relations and Clinical Teaching.

He was also an endocrinologist specializing in diabetes and hormones and practicing clinical medicine in Brookline, Massachusetts.

After he retired in Spring 2007 and was succeeded by Edward M. Hundert, he served in Miami, Florida for over six years at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.

Dr. Federman was born in New York City in 1928, the son of European immigrants who settled in the Bronx. He was graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1949 and magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1953. Following an internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), he became a clinical associate at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Disease (NIAMS) where, under the guidance of Ed Rall, he studied the effects of androgens on thyroid function, thyroxine metabolism, and thyroxine-binding protein. In 1957, he began a two-year clinical research fellowship with Sir Edward Pochin at the University College Hospital Medical School, London, pioneering in the use of radioactive iodine for the treatment of thyroid cancer. Following his time in London, he returned to HMS and the MGH and worked his way up the ranks, becoming chief of the endocrine unit at the MGH in 1964, assistant chief of medical services at the MGH in 1967, associate professor of medicine at HMS and physician at the MGH in 1970, and associate chairman of medicine in 1971. During this period, Dr. Federman produced his classic text, Abnormal Sexual Development: a genetic and endocrine approach to differential diagnosis, which has been credited as bringing order to a hitherto disorganized field.

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