A. Scott Pearson Biographical File
Abstract
Includes newspaper articles.
Dates
- Creation: 1970
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Biographical / Historical
Scott Pearson, M.D. is Associate Professor of Surgery and a member of the Vanderbilt faculty since 1999. Dr. Pearson completed his general surgery residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas followed by surgical oncology fellowship at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. As a member of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, he is interested in how the patient’s narrative forms the foundation of the doctor-patient relationship. Within the medical school curriculum, he is a facilitator for case-based learning, core faculty for CASE (Clinical Applications of Scientific Evidence), a portfolio coach, and faculty in the gross anatomy laboratory. He is involved in education across the university and teaches an undergraduate course on narrative medicine within Vanderbilt’s College of Arts and Science. As a member of Vanderbilt’s Faculty Senate, he is the current chair of the Faculty Life committee for the 2016-17 academic year.
Source:https://www.vumc.org/cbmes/person/scott-pearson-md
Full Extent
0.01 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- A. Scott Pearson Biographical File
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- History of Medicine Collections Staff
- Date
- 2024-04-17
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu
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