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David Shumway Jones, M.D., Ph.D.

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2007
Investigator Award in Health Policy Research
2009
MacVicar Faculty Fellowship
2010
Donald O’Hara Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching

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Trained in psychiatry and history of science, David Jones is the Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University. His research has focused on the causes and meanings of health inequalities (Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600) and the history of decision making in cardiac therapeutics (Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care). He is currently at work on four other histories, of the evolution of coronary artery surgery, of heart disease and cardiac therapeutics in India, of the threat of air pollution to health in India, and of the history of air pollution research in the United States. His teaching at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School explores the history of medicine, medical ethics, and social medicine.

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Available: 07/01/17, Expires: 01/01/25

I am willing to either (1) mentor students who want to pursue a project of their own design in history of medicine or (2) find a project related to my current research that could be done as a SiM project. I currently have projects related to the history of cardiac surgery, heart disease in India, and the links between air pollution and heart disease. The research would involve: defining a research question, identifying a collection of sources (e.g., published sources, archives, oral histories, etc.), examining those sources, developing arguments, and writing a scholarly analysis.

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Burden of disease and the priorities guiding US preclinical medical education reforms
Summer, 06/17/13 - 08/03/12
History of Dance Medicine
Summer, 06/17/13 - 08/09/13
Medicine as a lens into the political history of a postcolonial state
Summer, 06/08/15 - 09/16/15

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  1. T32GM144273 (WALENSKY, LOREN DAVID) Jul 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2027
    NIH
    Medical Scientist Training Program
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
  2. G13LM012053 (JONES, DAVID SHUMWAY) Sep 15, 2015 - Sep 14, 2020
    NIH
    On the Origins of Therapies: Innovation, Imagination, and the Evolution of Coronary Artery Surgery, 1910-1970
    Role: Principal Investigator

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