He was born in Lakewood, N.J., and came to us from Lawrence (Mass.) High School. At Princeton he graduated with honors in biology. Tom earned a medical degree with distinction in research from the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
After a residence in neurology at Mass General and an EEG-seizure fellowship at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston, he specialized in neurology and served as chief of the EEG-seizure unit there and later as chief of neurology at the Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center in Boston and professor of neurology at Boston Medical Center and BU School of Medicine, as well as medical-information director for Mashpee’s Grace Brain Center in Massachusetts.
In addition to decades of work involving epilepsy and seizure disorders, Tom co-authored more than 200 articles, 100 book chapters, and four books; served on editorial and advisory boards; and authored a column for the Enterprise newspaper group. He also sailed competitively throughout the East Coast in Thistles and Cape Cod Knockabouts, winning the Knockabout summer series five times and serving as commodore of the Woods Hole Yacht Club.
Tom is survived by his wife of 50 years, Lynne Van Beuren Browne; children Hilary Hutchinson ’97 and husband Robert, and David and wife Ervina; four grandchildren; and three sisters. The class extends them its condolences on the loss of this enormously energetic and productive classmate.