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

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

Education / Training

• Ph.D., English, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1990.
  Major Fields: American literature to 1945; Modern and Contemporary Drama; Gender Studies.
• M.A., English, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, 1982.
• B.A., Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, 1980.
  Major: Theatre Arts; Minor: English.

• Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City (July 2006 - present)
• Editor, Journal of Medical Humanities, Springer Science Publisher (January 2004 - present). 
• Associate Editor, Literature, Medicine, and Arts Database, NYU School of Medicine (1997-present).
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, American Medical Association Virtual Mentor (2003-present).
• Member, Editorial Board, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine, Biomedcentral (2005 - present).
• Chair (appointed), "Visual Arts and Cultural Representations Affinity Group." American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (1998-present).
• Elected Officer (2005-2007), American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
• Chair, Visual Arts and Cultural Representations Affinity Group, ASBH
• Faculty advisor , "Call Me Doctor" - documentary film project at University of Utah School of Medicine

• Literature and Medicine
• Twentieth-Century Literature and Drama
• AIDS and the Humanities
• Cultural and Gender Studies 

• "Ending in Wonder: Replacing Technology with Revelation in Margaret Edson's W;t." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (forthcoming July 2007).
• "Ethical Principles and Ethical Decision-making." Ethics For Physician Assistants, eds. Barry A. Cassidy and J. Dennis Blessing. F.A. Davis Company (December 2006).
• "The Medium is the Message: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart." Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media, ed. Lester Friedman, Duke University Press 2004, 315-330.

National /  International Presentations since 2004

• Moderator, Quandaries in Health Care Annual Conference: Medical and Normative Horizons of Human Bodies, Given Institute of the University of Colorado, Aspen (September 2006).
• "Piecing a Quilt: The Personal, the Political, the Universal." Special Panel Presentation on Narrative Matters. American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Denver (October 2006).
• "Meet the Editor: A Workshop for Publication." Special Workshop Presentation. American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, Denver (October 2006).
• Co-Organizer, Quandaries in Health Care Annual Conference: Emotions in Health Care, Given Institute of the University of Colorado, Aspen (September 2005).
• "Big and Little Pictures: Visual Culture in Medical Education." American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Meeting, Washington DC (November 2005).
• "The Medium is the Message: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart." Center for Biomedical Ethics Grand Rounds, Stanford University School of Medicine (December 2005).
• "In the Heart of the Heart of Texas: Implementing and Integrating the Medical Humanities." Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, University of Utah School of Medicine (November 2005).
• The Healing Humanities Conference, University College London (September 2004); the American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Meeting, Boston (November 2004).
• Co-Chair, Medicine and Media: The Delicate Balance, Spring 2004 Meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (March 2004).
• "Girls on the Wards: Women Doctors and Hollywood Films." Art in Medicine Series, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (May 2005) and Bexar County Psychiatric Association, San Antonio (April 2004).

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