Conan O’Brien is mourning the loss of both of his parents this week after they died just days apart from one another in their Brookline, Mass., home.
The TV personality’s father, Dr. Thomas F. O’Brien , died at home on Monday, Dec. 9. Dr. O’Brien, who was 95, was one of the first to alert the world to the danger posed by antimicrobial resistance, according to The Boston Globe .
He completed a fellowship in immunology and served as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, according to his obituary , before serving as the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Microbiology Laboratory at what would become Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass. He also served as an associate professor at Harvard Medical School…