After a couple of years out of school Dean went on to get an MD at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York, where he met and in 1981 married Judith Steinberg, a Jewish New Yorker with a BS from Princeton.

• 离开学校几年以后，迪恩又在纽约的爱因斯坦医科大学继续学习，得到了医学博士的学位，在那里他遇到了家在纽约的犹太姑娘朱迪斯·斯坦伯格并于1981年与之结婚。