Therese (Tess) Jones is an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities. She is editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities and is widely published in the areas of literature, film and medical education. She is also lead editor for the forthcoming Health and Humanities Reader, the first major text in the medical/health humanities published by Rutgers University Press.
In addition to integrating humanities materials and methodologies in the required curriculum of the School of Medicine, she also designs and teaches humanities electives, including "Reel Psychiatry: Cinematic Representations of Mental Illness," "The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Literature and the Arts," HIV/AIDS and American Culture,” and “Film and Healthcare,” an elective for the School of Pharmacy.
Contact Information:
Office Phone: 303.724.3995
FAX: 303.724.3997
E-mail: Therese.Jones@ucdenver.edu
Education:
1980 B.A . Theatre Arts and EnglisH, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg KS
1982 M.A. English, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg KS
1990 Ph.D. English, University of Colorado, Boulder
1994 - 1997 Postdoctoral Medical Humanities, Northeastern Ohio Universities College Felllowship of Medicine
Selected Publications:
Jones T. Sharing the Delirium: Second Generation AIDS Plays and Performance (Heinemann/Methuen, 1994).
Jones T. “The Faces of AIDS: Shifting Representations in Four Photography Exhibits.” Academic Medicine (August 1996): 904-906.
Jones T. “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 18 (1): 5-20.
Jones T. “Resisting the (Medical Gaze): Foucault, Kaysen and Vermeer.” Academic Medicine (February 2000): 154-155.
Yarborough M, T Jones, and T Cyr. “Teaching and Promoting Interprofessional Education: Ethics at an Academic Health Sciences Center.” Academic Medicine (August 2000): 793-800.
Jones T and A Verghese. “On Becoming a Humanities Curriculum.” Academic Medicine (October 2002): 1010-1014.
Jones T. "The Medium is the Message: Documenting the Story of Dax Cowart." Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media, ed. LD Friedman (Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 2004): 315-330.
Jones T. “Ending in Wonder: Replacing Technology with Revelation in Margaret Edson’s W;t.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 50, no 3 (Summer 2007)): 395-409.
Jones T. "Ethical Principles and Ethical Decision Making." Ethics and Professionalism: A Guide for the Physician Assistant, eds. B A Cassidy and JD Blessing (Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, 2007):
Jones T. “Peter and Me (or How I Learned to Fly): Network Television Broadcasts of Peter Pan.” Second Star to the Right: Peter Pan as Communal Myth and Cultural Icon, eds. AB Kavey and LD Friedman (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009):351-361.
Wear D and T Jones. “Bless Me Reader, For I Have Sinned: Physicians and Confessional Writing.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 53, no 2 (Spring 2010): 215-231.
Jones T. “The Dancer From the Dance: A Commentary on Apoptosis Is My Favorite Word.” Literature and Medicine 28, no. 2 (Fall 2010): 273-277.
Wear D and T Jones. “Darius Goes West.” Academic Medicine (December 2010): 1870-1871.
Jones T. “A New Kind of DNR (Do Not Record): Documentary Films, Patient Rights and Social Responsibility.” Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies, eds H Colt, LD Friedman and S Quadrelli (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Wear D, J Zarconi, R Garden, and T Jones. "Reflection in/and Writing: Pedagogy and Practice in Medical Education." Academic Medicine (forthcoming May 2012).
Jones, T, F Cohn, and J Shapiro. "Minding the Gap(s): Liminality and Narrativity in Medical Student Writing." Literature and Medicine (forthcoming 2012).
Selected Professional Service:
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Medical Humanities, Springer Science+Business Media Publications. 2004-present
Associate Editor, Literature, Medicine and the Arts Database,New York University Tisch School of Medicine. 1997-present.
American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Chair (appointed), “Visual Arts Affinity Group,” 1998-present; Co-Chair, Medicine and Media: The Delicate Balance, Spring Meeting, 2004 and Treasurer (elected), 2005-2007.
Co-Organizer and Moderator, Quandaries in Health Care Annual Conference, Given Institute of the University of Colorado, Aspen, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2010.
Coordinator, “The Wit Project,” University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 2001
Humanities Scholar and Evaluator, The Wit Educational Initiative, Robert Wood Johnson and HBO Films, University of California, Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital. 2001-2003.
Board Member, Physically Handicapped Amateur Musical Actors League (PHAMALy), Denver Center for the Performing Arts. 2001-2004
Judge, “Francis Velay Humanism in Medicine National Essay Contest,”
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, 2006 – present.
Speaker, Utah Humanities Public Square Program, Salt Lake City. 2007-2008
Medical Humanities Consultant, Body Worlds III, The Leonardo Science and Art Museum, Salt Lake City. 2008-2009.
Member, Health Sciences Library Exhibit Committee, University of Colorado Denver, 2009- present.
Member, President's Fund for the Humanities Grants and Awards, University of Colorado. 2009 – present.
Invited Member, Research Colloquium in the Medical Humanities, Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University UK, September 2011.
Editor, Letters to A Third-Year Student, an annual publication for the School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, 2011-present/
Invited Presenter, Center for Healthcare Ethics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, "Another Kind of DNR (do not record): Documentary Films, Patient Rights and Social Responsibility, February, 2012
Invited Facilitator, National Medical Education Conference in Ethics and Humanities, Nashville May 2012.
Full CV HERE