David Jones
David Jones studied medicine and history of science at Harvard University, receiving his M.D. and Ph.D. in 2001. After an internship in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital, Boston, he trained as a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, and then worked as a staff psychiatrist in the Psychiatric Emergency Service at Cambridge Hospital. He joined the MIT faculty in 2005 where he is now Associate Professor of the History and Culture of Science and Technology. He is also the director of educational programs for the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His initial research focused on American Indian health inequalities and produced a book, Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600, and several articles. His current research explores the history of decision making in cardiac therapeutics and attempts to understand how cardiologists and cardiac surgeons implement new technologies of cardiac revascularization. This research is supported by an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.