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Brigham and Women’s Hospital mourns the loss of K. Frank Austen, MD, founding chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy at BWH and the AstraZeneca Professor of Respiratory and Inflammatory Diseases, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Austen died on June 23 at the age of 95.

A member of the Brigham community for more than 60 years until his retirement in 2022, Dr. Austen was physician-in-chief and chair of the Department of Medicine at the Robert B.

Brigham (RBBH) Hospital, one of the three Harvard institutions that merged to form BWH in 1980. After the merger, he became chair of what was then the Department of Rheumatology at BWH until his appointment as chief of the newly formed Inflammation and Allergic Disease section within the Department of Medicine in 1994.

Joshua A. Boyce, MD, succeeded him as section chief in 2011.

“Frank was instrumental in the creation of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and was a giant of an administrator, a scientist and a m