There, he met his future wife Betty, who was the head nurse at the time.
Besides sharing his interest in medicine, Betty Federman also harbored a knack for teaching.
"I realized that she couldn't teach me everything I needed to know in just two months, so we got married, and we've been at it ever since," her husband says.
By this time, Federman had deviated from the career path he'd envisioned in high school. Intrigued by his first-year physiology course in medical school, he went on to specialize in reproductive physiology and reproductive disorders.
His 1967 book Abnormal Sexual Development is billed as the first clear explanation for disorders of sexual development.
Before coming to Harvard in 1977, Federman spent four years as chair of medicine at Stanford University. But he couldn't tear himself away from Harvard for long.
He returned when the new dean of the medical school, Daniel Tosteson, asked Federman to join his new administrative team.
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