Bruce Dan
Bruce Bespalow Dan, M.D. was one of the lead American researchers with the Toxic Shock Syndrome Task Force who established the link between toxic [shock syndrome] and the use of tampons.
Dan died September 6, 2011, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, Maryland, from complications stemming from a Bone [marrow transplant#Bone marrow|bone marrow transplant] received to cure leukemia. He is buried in Garden of Remembrance Cemetery, Clarksburg, Maryland.