Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION |
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| University of Missouri, Kansas City BA/MD Program | AUG 1984-JUN 1990 |
| B.A, English Literature, B.A, Biology, M.D., Medicine | |
| Stanford University, Stanford California | JUL 1991-JUN 1995 |
| M.A., American Poetry | |
| Thesis: Idem the Same: The Poetics of Mental Illness | |
| Ph.D., Program in American Culture, University of Michigan | AUG 1995-MAY 2001 |
| Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Title: The Freud of Prozac: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs | |
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING |
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| Medical Internship | JUL 1991-JUN 1992 |
| Stanford University Hospital | |
| Stanford, California | |
| Psychiatry Residency | JUL 1992-JUN 1995 |
| Stanford University Hospital | |
| Stanford, California | |
| Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar | JUL 1995-JUN 1997 |
| University of Michigan | |
| Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Fellow in Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, University of Michigan | JUL 1997-JUN 1999 |
| Department of Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS |
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| Director, Rackham Interdisciplinary Institute | JAN 1998-JUL 2001 |
| University of Michigan | |
| Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Lecturer II, Department of Psychiatry and Women’s Studies Program | SEP 1999-DEC 2000 |
| University of Michigan | |
| Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Assistant Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Women | JAN 1999-SEPT 2005 |
| and Gender, University of Michigan | |
| Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Core Faculty, The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program | JAN 1999- MAY 2011 |
| University of Michigan | |
| Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and | JAN 2001-AUG 2005 |
| Women’s Studies Program, University of Michigan, | |
| Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Clinical Faculty, Department of Psychology, | JAN 2001- MAY 2010 |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Director, Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine | JAN 2003- MAY 2011 |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Associate Professor, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, | SEPT 2005- MAY 2011 |
| Women’s Studies Program, and Department of Psychiatry, | |
| University of Michigan, | |
| Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Co-Assistant Director, University of Michigan Disability Studies Program, Ann Arbor, Michigan | SEPT 2008- MAY 2011 |
| Affiliated Faculty, University of Michigan Center for Afroamerican | SEPT 2009- MAY 2011 |
| and African Studies, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Visiting Professor, New York University, Department of Social and | SEPT 2010- |
| Cultural Analysis, NY, NY | |
| Frederick B. Rentschler II Endowed Professor, Department of Sociology | MAY 2011- |
| and Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt | |
| University, Nashville, TN | |
| Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt | MAY 2011- |
| University, Nashville, TN | |
| www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs | |
| Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University | JUNE 2011- |
| School of Medicine, Nashville, TN | |
| Research Scholar, RWJF Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical | FEB 2012- |
| College, Nashville, TN | |
| Affiliate Faculty, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, | SEPT 2012- |
| Nashville, TN | |
| Affiliate Faculty, Department of African American and Diaspora | SEPT 2012- |
| Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN | |
| Affiliate Faculty, Department of Health policy, Vanderbilt University | JULY 2014- |
| School of Medicine, Nashville, TN | |
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES |
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| Editorial Board, Journal of Medical Humanities, International Journal of Men’s Health & Gender, Literature and Medicine, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | |
| Referee, Literature and Medicine, Gender and History, Gender and Society, Journal of the History of Medicine, Social Science and Medicine, Cultural Anthropology, Lancet, University of California Press, University of Michigan Press, St. Martin’s Press, Duke University Press, Yale University Press | |
| Advisory Board, the Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI. | |
| Advisory Board, AAC&U, Depression on College Campuses initiative. | |
GRANT SUPPORT (selected; PI unless otherwise specified) |
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| Special Project Grant, The Gender Based Censorship Project | 1999-2000 |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Rachel Upjohn Foundation, Clinical Scholars Award | 2000-2003 |
| “Cultural Aspects of Depression” ($15,000) | |
| Life Sciences, Values, and Society Program, Special Project Grant | 2000-2001 |
| “Race, Gender, and the Genome” ($15,000) | |
| U.S. Department of Education/Fipse Program, PI, “Seeing the Body Elsewise: | 2000-2004 |
| Connecting Medicine and the Humanities” ($249,000) | |
| Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Faculty Grant Competition | 2001-2002 |
| “Gender, Life Stages, and SSRI Antidepressants” | |
| Venture Investment Fund, GME Ethics Initiative ($15,000) | 2001-2002 |
| NIH K12 Award ($189,540), “The Role of SSRIs in | 2001-2004 |
| Defining, Diagnosing, and Treating Women’s Depressive Illness | |
| Across the Life Span” | |
| UM LS&A Subvention Grant, “The Freud of Prozac: Tracing | 2002 |
| Psychotropic Medications Through American Culture | ” |
| UM Intersections Faculty Grant ($12,000) | |
| 2004 | |
| Michigan Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship ($46,000) | 2004-2005 |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health and Society | 2004-2005 |
| Scholars Program, Small Grant Award ($25,000), | |
| National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression | 2005-2007 |
| (NARSAD), Junior Investigator Award ($60,000), | |
| “Race, Stigma, and Mental Illness” | |
| American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), | 2007-2008 |
| One-Year Faculty Fellowship, | |
| “Race, Stigma, and Schizophrenia” | |
| John S. Guggenheim Foundation, | 2009-2010 |
| One-Year Faculty Fellowship | |
| “Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and Schizophrenia” | |
| UM Publication Subvention Grant ($10,000), “The Protest Psychosis” | 2010 |
| UM Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Faculty Seed Grant, | 2010-2012 |
| African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness ($10,000) | |
| National Science Foundation (NSF), Science and Society Program, | 2011-2015 |
| Investigator Award ($184,000), “Race, Politics, and the History of | |
| Psychiatry” | |
| The Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Center at Meharry Medical College | 2012-2015 |
| Pilot Project Grant ($40,000), “Masculinity, Race, and the Politics of American | |
| Men’s Health Policy” | |
| PI, REAM Foundation Project Grant, Medicine, Health, and Society ($60,000) | 2014-2018 |
| Co-PI, Vanderbilt International Office (VIO) Seed Grant, | 2015-2016 |
| Contested global biopsychiatry: Establishing an international partnership for | |
| critical and constructive global mental health ($17,000) | |
| Co-PI, Vanderbilt Research Scholar Series Grant, Globalization, | 2015-2017 |
| psychiatry, and the politics of global mental health ($16, 620) | |
| CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE | |
| Medical License: | California, Michigan |
| Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (APBN) | |
HONORS AND AWARDS (selected) |
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| Outstanding Submission, Society for Health and Human Values | 1996 |
| National Meeting, “Prozac Narratives: The Biology of a | |
| New Approach to Contemporary American Fiction” | |
| The Michigan Psychoanalytic Association | 1998 |
| Outstanding Research Award, “Psychotherapy, | |
| Managed Care, and the Economy of Interaction: | |
| The Narrative Theory of Managed Mental Health Care” | |
| The Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture | 1998 |
| John P. Speigel International Award in Cross Cultural Psychiatry, | |
| “Psychiatry, Prozac, and Popular Culture” | |
| Special Project Research Grant, Institute for Research on Women and Gender | 1998-1999 |
| “The Aesthetics of Depression” | |
| University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities | 1998-1999 |
| James Wynne Fellowship | |
| Association of Academic Psychiatry/Galaxo-Wellcome Junior Faculty | 2000-2001 |
| Development Award | |
| American Psychiatric Institute For Research and Education, | 2002 |
| Junior Investigator Award | |
| Future Leaders in Psychiatry, Junior Faculty Award | 2003 |
| Trading Concepts: Discourse and Narrative in the | 2003-2004 |
| Humanities and Social Sciences Fellow | |
| Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), Best Special Issue | 2005 |
| Award runner up, “Difference and Identity in Medicine” | |
| School of Philosophical & Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney, | 2006 |
| International Honorary Fellowship | |
| University of Missouri, Kansas City, William H. Sirhige Medical | 2009 |
| Humanities Honorary Lectureship | |
| Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society, | 2009 |
Delta Chapter, Alumni Inductee |
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| Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society, | 2011 |
Delta Chapter, Honorary Professor |
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| Dyason Award Fellowship, University of Melbourne | 2013 |
OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (selected) |
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| Scientific Program Committee, American Psychiatric Association | 2000-2003 |
| Presidential Appointee, Telecommunications Subcommittee, | 2000-2003 |
| American Psychiatric Association | |
| Executive Committee, Association of American Colleges and Universities | 2005-2011 |
| (AAC&U), Initiative on Depression on College Campuses | |
Arts, Literature, and Cultural Studies Review Committee, American |
2005-2008 |
| Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) | |
| Conference Co-chair, American Association for the History of | 2017 |
| Medicine (AAHM) annual conference | |
EXTRAMURAL/INVITED PRESENTATIONS |
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| Over 300 invited presentations, including grand rounds presentations and invited lectures. Recent venues include UCLA, Emory, UCSF, The Carter Center, John’s Hopkins University, Columbia University, NYU, Northwestern, U Chicago, UIC, CUNY Graduate Center, UC Irvine, Oberlin College, Rice University, and Mayo Clinic. Recent keynotes or major lectures include, Japanese Society for Transcultural Psychiatry; Association of Academic Psychiatry International Conference (http://www.mcw.edu/FileLibrary/User/pnelson/12128Brochure.pdf); Vanderbilt University College of Arts & Sciences Board of Visitors dinner; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College, 2012 Partnership Lecture; 4th Biennial Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities (http://physicianscholars.blogspot.com); Keynote address, Race and Health Colloquium, University of Melbourne (http://www.socialequity.unimelb.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/130417-Health-Race-Flyer-3.pdf); Opening address, University of Chicago Colloquium on Asylums and Prisons; Keynote, Calgary Institute for the Humanities Community Forum; Grand Rounds, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Department of Psychiatry; Walls and Bridges Festival, Brooklyn, New York (http://vimeo.com/79820263); Keynote Speaker, Tennessee Dental Association; Keynote Address, Durham Critical Medical Humanities Conference, Durham, UK, http://centreformedicalhumanities.org/podcast-jonathan-m-metzl-the-protest-psychosis-race-stigma-and-the-diagnosis-of-schizophrenia ;Featured speaker, Conte Center for Neuroscience Research Public Lecture Series, http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/contecenter/page57/page62/page59/index.html : Vanderbilt Alumni Club, Philadelphia Chapter, Commodore Classroom, https://events.vanderbilt.edu/index.php?eID=32673; | |
COMMITTEE AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE (selected) |
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| Pre-Health Curriculum Committee | 1999-2005 |
| Women’s Studies Program, University of Michigan. | |
| Gender and the Media Subcommittee | 1999-2001 |
| Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan | |
| Co-Curator, Seeing Is Healing? The Visual Arts of Medicine: | Aug.-Nov., 2000 |
| The University of Michigan Medical School Sesquicentennial Exhibition | |
| Museum of Art, University of Michigan | |
| Advisory Board, Life Sciences, Values, and Society Program | 2000-2005 |
| University of Michigan | |
| Core Faculty, Bioethics Program, | 2000-206 |
| University of Michigan School of Medicine | |
| Life Sciences Institute, Faculty Seed Grants Committee | 2000-2003 |
| Faculty Search Committee (2), Bioethics Program | 2000-2006 |
| Clinical Scholars Search Committee, RWJ Clinical Scholars Program | 2000-2011 |
| Psychiatry Information Systems Committee | 2001-2002 |
| Chair, Women’s Studies Mini-Course Committee | 2001-2004 |
| Core Faculty, Science and Technology Studies Program | 2001-2011 |
| Waggoner Lectureship Committee | 2001-2011 |
| Women’s Studies Executive Committee | 2002-2004 |
| Organizer, Lecture Series on “Gender, Culture, and the Genome” | 2002-2004 |
| UM | |
| Cultural Competency Committee, Bioethics Program, UM | 2002 |
| Chair, Grand Rounds Committee, Department of Psychiatry, UM | 2002-2005 |
| UM Medical School Curriculum Committee, Subcommittee | 2003-2005 |
| On Professionalization | |
| Chair, Awards Committee, Dorothy McGuigan Student Essay | 2003-2004 |
| Competition | |
| Chair, Curriculum Committee, Women’s Studies Program, UM | 2003-2005 |
| UM Presidential Initiative, Michigan Healthy Community Initiative Task | 2005-2007 |
| Force | |
| Conference Chair, Against Health: Resisting the Invisible Morality, | 2006 |
| University of Michigan (www.umich.edu/againsthealth) | |
| Review Committee, Women’s Studies, UM | 2006-2007 |
| Medical History Committee, UM Medical School | 2008-2009 |
| Review Committee, Women’s Studies, UM | 2008-2010 |
| Dean’s Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, Vanderbilt University | 2011-2012 |
| Chair, MHS Search Committee (8 tenure-line searches), Vanderbilt University | 2011- |
| (http://chronicle.com/article/5-Professors-Join-Vanderbilts/133539) | |
| Conference Co-Chair, Structural Competency, NYU-Vanderbilt-UCSF | |
| 2012- | |
| (www.structuralcompetency.org) | |
| Senior Advisory Review Committee (SARC), Vanderbilt University, | 2012- |
| College of Arts & Sciences | |
| Committee on Health Related Professions, Vanderbilt University | 2012- |
| Committee on Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies, Vanderbilt University | 2012- |
| Graduate Chair, Vanderbilt MHS | 2012- |
| Co-chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, MHS | 2012- |
| 2013 Murray Lecture co-organizer, Vanderbilt University | 2013 |
| Chair, Social Foundations of Health 4+1 Planning Committee, MHS | 2013 |
| Co-chair, Vanderbilt Strategic Planning Committee on Healthcare Solutions | 2013 |
| Conference Co-Chair, Structural Competency, UCSF-Vanderbilt | |
| 2013 | |
| (www.structuralcompetency.org) | |
| Conference Chair, The Politics of Health, Vanderbilt, | 2013 |
| (http://politicsofhealthconference.org) | |
| CLINICAL SERVICE | |
| Attending Physician, Adult Outpatient Clinic, Department | JULY 1999-MAY 2011 |
| of Psychiatry, University of Michigan | |
| (FCC Clinic, Depression Center Team, Individual | |
| Psychotherapy/Psychopharmacology, Emergency Psychiatry, | |
| Inpatient Psychiatry) | |
| Attending Physician, Psychological Clinic, Department of | |
| 2000-2010 | |
| Psychology, University of Michigan |
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