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Therese Jones, Ph.D.

 Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities
University of Utah School of Medicine

Correspondence:
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Utah School of Medicine Room 4C104
Salt Lake City UT 84132
Phone: (801) 585.5925
Email: therese.jones@hsc.utah.edu

Interests

  • Curriculum Development in the Medical humanities
  • Visual Arts and Medicine
  • Literature and Medicine

Education

  • PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder (English), 1990
  • MA, Pittsburg State University (English) 1982
  • BA, Pittsburg State University (Major: Theatre Arts and Minor: English) 1980

Professional Experience

  • July 2006 - , Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities
  • 2002-2006, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Co-Director, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • 2002-2006, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Allied Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • 1997-2002, Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver
  • 1997-2002, Adjunct Faculty, Farrand Academic Program, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • 1994-1997, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Human Values in Medicine, Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine, Rootstown OH
  • 1995-1997, Adjunct Faculty, Program in Biomedical Humanities, Hiram College, Hiram OH
  • 1991-1994, Instructor, Department of Humanities and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • 1993-1994, Lecturer, American Studies Program, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • 1990-1991, Lecturer, Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder

Selected Professional Activities

  1. 2004-2007, Treasurer (elected), American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
  2. 1998 - present, Chair (appointed), Visual Arts and Cultural Representations Affinity, American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
  3. March 2004, Co-Chair, Medicine and Media: The Delicate Balance, Spring Meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
  4. 1998-present, Co-Organizer and Moderator, Quandaries in Health Care Annual Conference, University of Colorado Given Institute, Aspen May
  5. 1997, Director, "Becoming Visible, Becoming Vocal: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS," Health Museum of Greater Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio February
  6. 1996, Director, "Performing AIDS: An Interdisciplinary Symposium and Arts Festival," Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

Editorial Experience

  1. Editor, Journal of Medical Humanities, Springer Science Press (2003-present)
  2. Associate Editor, Literature, Medicine and the Arts Database, New York University School of Medicine (1997-present)
  3. Associate Editor, Journal of Medical Humanities, Kluwer (1994-2002)
  4. Editorial Board Member, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine, BioMed Central Journal (2005-present)
  5. Editorial Board Member, Virtual Mentor: Online Ethics and Professionalism Journal, American Medical Association (2003-present)
  6. Reviewer, Patient Education and Counseling (2005-present)
  7. Reviewer, Academic Medicine (2001-present)
  8. Guest Co-Editor with Delese Wear, "Contemporary Discourses on the Medical Humanities: A Special Issue," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (forthcoming Spring 2007)
  9. Guest Co-Editor with Arthur Frank, "Bioethics After Foucault: Reconceiving the Clinic: A Special Issue," Journal of Medical Humanities ((Fall 2003)
  10. Guest Editor, "Performing AIDS: A Special Issue," Journal of Medical Humanities (Spring/Summer 1998).

Books and Book Chapters

  1. Sharing the Delirium: Second Generation AIDS Plays and Performances, Heinemann/Methuen (1994)
  2. "Peter and Me (or How I Learned to Fly): Network Broadcasts of Peter Pan, in Playing With Pan, Rutgers University Press (forthcoming 2007)
  3. "Ethical Principles and Ethical Decision-Making," in Ethics for Physician Assistants, FA Davis (2006)
  4. "The Message is the Medium: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart," in Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media, Duke University Press (2004)
  5. "An Interview with Playwright Robert Anderson," in Playwright and Director: Authorial Intentions and Performance Interpretations, Greenwood Publishing (1996)
Articles
  1. "On Becoming A Humanities Curriculum," Academic Medicine (October 2003)
  2. "An Introduction to Bioethics After Foucault," Journal of Medical Humanities (Fall 2003)
  3. "A Necessary Art: Representations of Art and Medicine," Medical Humanities Review (Fall 2000)
  4. "Teaching and Promoting Interprofessional Education: Ethics at an Academic Health Sciences Center," Academic Medicine (August 2000)
  5. "Resisting the Medical Gaze: Foucault, Kaysen and Vermeer," Academic Medicine (February 2000)
  6. "Making Meaning of Illness: Arthur Frank's The Wounded Storyteller," The Pharos (Winter 1999)
  7. "Performing AIDS: Politics, Pedagogies and Practices," Journal of Medical Humanities (Spring/Summer 1998)
  8. "As the World Turns on the Sick and the Restless, So Go the Days of Our Lives: Family and Illness in Daytime Drama," Journal of Medical Humanities (Spring 1997)
  9. "The Faces of AIDS: Shifting Representations in Four Photography Exhibits," Academic Medicine (August 1996)
  10. "American Culture and the AIDS Crisis," Lesbian and Gay Studies Review (November 1994)

Encyclopedia Entries

  1. Theatre," in Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural and Scientific Record of the Epidemic, Fitzroy and Dearborn Publishers (1998)
  2. "Women and AIDS," in Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory, Garland Publishing (1997)

Selected Invited Lectures

  1. "Big and Little Pictures: Visual Culture in Medical Education," American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Meeting (November 2005)
  2. "The Medium is the Message: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart," Center for Biomedical Ethics Grand Rounds, Stanford University (December 2005) and Institute for the Medical Humanities Colloquium Series, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston (February 2002)
  3. "In the Heart of the Heart of Texas: Implementing and Integrating the Medical Humanities," Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, University of Utah Health Sciences Center (December 2005); American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Meeting (November 2004); and The Healing Humanities Conference, University College London (September 2004)
  4. "Girlz N the Wardz: Women Doctors and Hollywood Films," Art in Medicine Series, University of Colorado School of Medicine (May 2005) and Bexar County Psychiatric Association, San Antonio (April 2004)
  5. "Pictures in an Epidemic: Visual Representations of HIV/AIDS," Medical Humanities Grand Rounds, University of Maryland College of Medicine (September 2003); Neiswanger Institute of Bioethics, Loyola College of Medicine (January 2003); and Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (March 2003)
  6. "The Consolation of Sisterhood: Women, Writing and AIDS," Association of Nurses and AIDS Caregivers Annual Meeting, Denver (June 2002)
  7. "Images of HIV: Their Effect on Public Perceptions of Disease," Plenary Session, Rocky Mountain Regional Conference on HIV Disease, Denver (March 2001)
Selected Conference Pesentations
  1. "Hospice and Humanities: Understanding and Empathy in End of Life Care," University of Incarnate Word and Friends of Hospice Spring Meeting, San Antonio (April 2005)
  2. "The Medium is the Message: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart," Society for Media and Cinema Studies Annual Meeting, Denver (May 2002)
  3. "Teaching Interprofessional Ethics," Royal College of Nursing Annual Conference, Australia (July 2001)
  4. "Lighting Out for the Territory: Medical Humanities in the New Frontier," American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, Salt Lake City (October 2000)
  5. "Eggs For Sale: A Dramatic Dialogue," International Feminist Bioethics Conference, London (September 2000)
  6. "On Being Ill: Writing and Reading Illness in Twentieth-Century American Culture," Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Chicago (December 1999)
  7. "Resisting the (Medical) Gaze: Vermeer, Foucault, and Susanna Kaysen," American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, Baltimore (November 1997)
  8. "'It's not a gay story' and 'It's not about AIDS': The Epidemic and Mainstream Movies," Society for Health and Human Values Annual Meeting, San Diego (October 1995)
  9. "Living the Stigma: Women, Performance, and AIDS," Association of Theatre in Higher Education Annual Meeting, San Francisco (August 1995)
  10. "From Immunity to Implication: HIV/AIDS Education and Art," Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans (May 1995)
  11. "The Consolation of Sisterhood: Women, Writing and AIDS," American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, University of Georgia (March 1995)
  12. "Sharing the Delirium: Second Generation AIDS Plays and Performances," Modern Language Association Annual Conference, New York (December 1992)

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