David Jones, MD, PhD

Director, Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine

Dr. Jones is trained as a psychiatrist and historian of science. As the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine he teaches history of medicine and medical ethics at Harvard College and Harvard Medicial School. His most recent book, Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care, examines the history of cardiology and cardiac surgery.

Websites

Department of Global Health and Social Medicine

Department of the History of Science

Who We Are

Arts & Humanities@ HMS: Steering Committee

The Arts & Humanities@ HMS Committee started meeting regularly in 2011. Our committee is multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional. We represent nearly every hospital at HMS, every medical specialty, every art form. Faculty from FAS are also included. Medical students, residents, and fellows are an integral part of the committee.

Director

David S. Jones, PhD, MD, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine (HMS/FAS)

Associate Co-Directors

Lisa Wong, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics (MGH)

Susan Pories, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery (MAH/BIDMC)

Faculty Executive Committee

Rafael Campo, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (BIDMC)

Elizabeth Gaufberg, MD Associate Professor of Medicine (CHA)

Joel Katz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (BWH)

Suzanne Koven, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MGH)

Amy Ship, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (BIDMC)

Faculty Members

Gregory Abel, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine (DFCI)

Ronald Arky, MD Daniel D. Federman, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Medical Education; Master, Francis Weld Peabody Society (HMS)

Eugene Beresin, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry (MGH)

Edward Hundert, MD HMS Dean for Medical Education (HMS)

Shahram Khoshbin, MD Associate Professor of Neurology (BWH)

Steven Schlozman, MD , Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (MGH)

Additional Committee Members

Lisa Gruenberg, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, (CHB)

Tommy Heyne (med-peds resident, MGH)

Sophia McKinley (surgical resident, MGH)

Samyukta Mullangi (student)

Robin Schoenthaler, MD, Clinical Instructor in Radiation Oncology (MGH)

Andrea Schwartz (geriatrics fellow, BWH)

Karen Thornber, PhD, Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature (FAS)

Ivana Viani (student)

Julie Whelan, Countway librarian