Curriculum Vitae - The Department of Global Health and Social ...

Date Prepared: October 3, 2011
Name: Scott Harris Podolsky
Curriculum Vitae
Office Address: Center for the History of Medicine; Countway Medical Library; 10 Shattuck Street;
Boston, MA 02114
Work Phone: (617) 432-4142
Work Email: Scott_podolsky@hms.harvard.edu
Work FAX: (617) 724-8067
Education
1993 A.B., Summa Cum Laude History and Science Harvard College
1997 M.D., Magna Cum Laude Medicine Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Training
07/1997–
06/1998
07/1998–
06/2000
Intern in Medicine Internal Medicine Brigham and Women’s
Hospital
Resident in Medicine Internal Medicine Brigham and Women’s
Hospital
Faculty Academic Appointments
2000–2006 Instructor in Medicine Medicine Harvard Medical School
2006–2008 Instructor in Global Health Department of (Global Harvard Medical School
and Social Medicine Health and) Social
Medicine
2008–present Assistant Professor of Department of Global Harvard Medical School
Global Health and Social
Medicine
Health and Social Medicine
Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions
2000–2007 Assistant in Medicine Medicine Massachusetts General
Hospital
2007–present Assistant Physician Medicine Massachusetts General
Hospital
Major Administrative Leadership Positions
Local
2006–present Director, Center for the History of
Medicine, Countway Medical Library
Page 1 of 9
Harvard Medical School

Committee Service
Local
2002–2005 Faculty Advisor, Medical Humanities
Group
Massachusetts General Hospital
2004–2006 Center for the History of Medicine
Subcommittee, Countway Medical Library
Harvard Medical School
2006–2007 MGMG Management Committee Massachusetts General Medical Group
2011– HMS Faculty Advisory Committee on
Medical Humanities for the Scholars in
Medicine Program
Harvard Medical School
Regional
2011– Historical Advisory Committee Massachusetts Medical Society
National and International
2005–2006 J. Worth Estes Prize Committee American Association for the History of
2006–2007 J. Worth Estes Prize Committee
Medicine
American Association for the History of
[Chairperson]
Medicine
2009–2010 Garrison Lecture Committee American Association for the History of
Medicine
2010– William Bean Student Research Award
Committee
American Osler Society
2010–2016 Publications Committee American Association for the History of
Medicine
2011– Board of Governors American Osler Society
Professional Societies
1994–present American Medical Association Member
1994–present Massachusetts Medical Society Member
1994–present American Association for the History of Member
Medicine
2010–present American Osler Society Member
2010–present Massachusetts Historical Society Fellow
Grant Review Activities
2011 National Library of Medicine (NIH) G13
Review Committee
Editorial Activities
New England Journal of Medicine
American Journal of Public Health
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Medical History
Science in Context
Johns Hopkins University Press (manuscript)
University of California Press (manuscript)
Page 2 of 9
Member

Honors and Prizes
1990–1993 John Harvard Scholarship Harvard College
1992 Phi Beta Kappa Harvard College
1993 Rothschild Prize Harvard College
1993 Hoopes Prize Harvard College
1994 William Osler Prize American Association for the History of
Medicine
1997 Richard C. Cabot Prize Harvard Medical School
1999 Nomination, Excellence in Teaching Award Harvard Medical School
2001 Nomination, Excellence in Teaching Award Harvard Medical School
2004 Nomination, Excellence in Teaching Award Harvard Medical School
2008 Excellence in Tutoring Award Harvard Medical School
2009 Excellence in Tutoring Award Harvard Medical School
2010 Excellence in Tutoring Award Harvard Medical School
2011 J. Worth Estes Prize American Association for the History of
Medicine
Report of Funded and Unfunded Projects
Funding Information
Past
1994–1995 NIH, Student Scholarship
Research and completion of co-authored published historical manuscript, Generation of
Diversity: Clonal Selection Theory and the Rise of Molecular Immunology
2000–2004 John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation
Research and completion of published historical manuscript, Pneumonia before
Antibiotics: Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in 20 th -century America
2001–2003 NIH, 1 G13 LM07271-01
Research and completion of published historical manuscript, Pneumonia before
Antibiotics: Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in 20 th -century America
2004–2005 MGH
Research for historical manuscript, Antibiotics and the Dream of a Rational Therapeutics
Current
2010–2012 Sloan Foundation
“Medical Heritage Library” [Collaborative Digitization initiative, with NLM, Yale,
Columbia, NYPL, through Open Knowledge Commons for Center for the History of
Medicine]
Page 3 of 9

Report of Local Teaching and Training
Teaching of Students in Courses
1998–2005 Social History of Medicine
Co-teacher (for several years course codirector),
10 1 st and 2 nd year students
annually
2002 Pain and Palliative Medicine
Lecture, 6 1 st and 2 nd year students
2007 Harvard International Program
Lecture, 20 students
2007 Introduction to Human Physiology
Co-Lecture, 150 1 st year students
2007–present Introduction to Social Medicine
Tutor, 10 1 st year students yearly
2008–present Medicine and Management
Co-Lecture, 15-25 students annually
Page 4 of 9
Harvard Medical School
2 hours/week x 16 weeks
Harvard Medical School
2 hours/week x 1 week
Harvard Medical School
3 hours/week x 1 week
Harvard Medical School
1 hour/week x 1 week
Harvard Medical School
2 hours/week x 16 weeks
HMS/HBS combined program
Formal Teaching of Residents, Clinical Fellows and Research Fellows (post-docs)
2000 The Treatment of Pneumonia with
Antiserum, 1892-1942
BWH medicine residents; one hour lecture
2005 The History of the Hospital BWH medicine residents; one hour colecture
2007 From Antiserum to Antibiotics: Pneumonia
and the Application of the Therapeutic
Specific in 20 th -Century America
2010 Antibiotics, Drug Regulation, and the
History of the Controlled Clinical Trial in
America
Clinical Supervisory and Training Responsibilities
2000–2006 Ambulatory Primary Care Clinic
Preceptor/MGH
2001–present Walter Bauer Firm, Attending
Physician/Visit, MGH
2002–2006 Patient-Doctor II, MGH
Supervisor for 2 nd year students
MGH medicine residents; one hour lecture
MGH medicine residents; one hour lecture
One session per week, full year
One rotation annually
12 hours/year

Laboratory and Other Research Supervisory and Training Responsibilities
2005 Clerkship in the History of Medicine
Visiting student from Great Britain
2008–2009 Harvard College History of Science Thesis
Advising, one student
2008–2009 Harvard Medical School Honors Thesis
Advising, one student
2009–2010 Harvard Medical School Honors Thesis
Advising, one student
2010 Clerkship in the History of Medicine
4 th year student
Page 5 of 9
16 hours/year
7 months
7 months
7 months
1 month
Local Invited Presentations: No presentations below were sponsored by outside entities
2001 The Treatment of Pneumonia with Antiserum, 1892-1942
MGH GIMU Seminar
2006 Antibiotic Overuse and the Dream of Therapeutic Rationalism
BWH Pharmacoepidemiology Division
2007 From Antiserum to Antibiotics: Pneumonia and the Application of the Therapeutic
Specific in 20 th -century America
BIDMC Pulmonary Division
2008 Keeping Modern in Medicine: Pharmaceutical Promotion and Physician Education in
Postwar America
HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Seminar Series
2008 The Hersey Professorship of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and the History of
Medicine at Harvard … and Elsewhere, 1782-2007
BWH, Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
2009 Medical Education and Physician Education in Historical Perspective
HMS Ackerman Program
Report of Regional, National and International Invited Teaching and Presentations
Invited Presentations and Courses: No presentations below were sponsored by outside entities
Regional
2003 The Tempo and Mode of Medical Evolution: The Treatment of Pneumonia with
Antiserum, 1892-1942
Boston University Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science
2004 Commentary on William Summers’ paper on the history of microbiology and industry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005 Commentary on Andrea Grignolio’s paper on the history of immunology
Boston University Center for the Philosophy of Science
2007 From Antiserum to Antibiotics: Pneumonia and the Application of the Therapeutic
Specific in 20 th -Century America
Massachusetts Infectious Diseases Society
2007 From Antiserum to Antibiotics: Pneumonia and the Application of the Therapeutic
Specific in 20 th -Century America
Dartmouth Medical School, Pathology Research and Review Seminars

2007 The Recent History of Infection and Immunization
[Boston] Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine
2009 Clonal Selection Theory and the Neo-Darwinian Transformation of Immunology
Boston University Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science
2011 Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Spirit of Skepticism
Massachusetts Medical Society
2011 Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Spirit of Skepticism
University of Massachusetts Medical School
National
2002 Difference and Diversification: Theory and Experiment in the Activities of the Molecular
Immunologist (read in absentia)
Colloquium on the Interface between Immunology and Molecular Biology, George
Washington University
2002 The Treatment of Pneumonia with Antiserum, 1892-1942: Lessons Regarding the
Evolution and Implementation of the Modern Specific
Johns Hopkins University Department of the History of Science, Medicine, and
Technology
2007 From Antiserum to Antibiotics: The Treatment of Pneumonia and the Modern History of
Therapeutic Evaluation and Drug Regulation
Food and Drug Administration [visiting professorship]
2008 The Importance of Archives for the History (and Practice) of Medicine and Science
American Academy of the History of Dentistry
2010 Antimicrobials, Controlled Trials, and the Limits to the Standardization of Therapeutic
Practice in America, 1950-1970
American Association for the History of Medicine, Rochester, MN
2010 Harvard University’s Committee on Pharmacotherapy, 1939-1943, and Paths not Taken
American Osler Society, Rochester, MN
2011 Park’s Story and Winters’ Tale: Alternate Allocation Studies in Turn-of-the-Century
America
American Osler Society, Philadelphia, PA
International
2009 Antimicrobials, Controlled Trials, and the Limits to the Standardization of the Therapeutic
Practice in America
European Science Foundation conference on the history of antibiotics, Madrid, Spain
2011 Antibiotics and Autonomy: Physician Prescribing Behavior and the Politicization of
Antibiotic Resistance
European Science Foundation conference on the history of antibiotics, Oslo, Norway
Page 6 of 9

Report of Clinical Activities and Innovations
Current Licensure and Certification
1999 Massachusetts Medical License
2000 American Board of Internal Medicine
2010 American Board of Internal Medicine (recertification)
Practice Activities
2000–present Ambulatory Primary Care Adult primary care and
internal medicine
Report of Education of Patients and Service to the Community
Activities
Page 7 of 9
Has ranged from 3.5 to 7
sessions per week; round
on all inpatients.
Nominated in 2006 for
Brian McGovern award,
MGH. Named to “Best
Doctors” from 2009-2011.
2008 Organized and moderated the symposium, “Sectarian (to Unorthodox to Alternative) to
Complementary Medicine,” Countway Medical Library
2009 Co-organized the 2009 Ackerman Program, “Medical Industry, Medical Health,”
Harvard Medical School
2009 Organized and moderated the symposium, “Conceiving the Pill: Reproductive Health in
Historical Perspective,” Countway Medical Library
2009 Organized and moderated the symposium, “Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Spirit of
Skepticism,” Countway Medical Library
2010 Co-organized and co-moderated the 2010 Ackerman Program, “The Flexner Centennial:
100 Years of Medical Education Reform,” Harvard Medical School
2010 Co-ordinated the bringing of the National Library of Medicine Exhibition, “Opening
Doors: Contemporary African-American Surgeons,” to the Countway Medical Library
2011 Organized and moderated the symposium, “Dissolving Boundaries: Extending the Reach
of Medicine and Public Health,” Countway Medical Library.
2011 Co-coordinated the bringing of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Exhibition, “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race,” to Harvard Medical School
2011 Organized and co-moderated the 2011 Ackerman Program, “Genetic Determinism Then
and Now: Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics”

Report of Scholarship
Publications
Peer reviewed publications in print or other media
1. Tauber AI, Podolsky SH. Frank MacFarlane Burnet and the Immune Self. Journal of the History of
Biology 1994;27: 531-574.
2. Podolsky SH, Tauber AI. Darwinism and Antibody Diversity: A Historical Perspective. Research in
Immunology 1996;147: 3-6.
3. Podolsky SH. The Role of the Virus in Origin-of-Life Theorizing. Journal of the History of Biology
1996;29: 79-126.
4. Podolsky SH, Tauber AI. Generation of Diversity: Clonal Selection Theory and the Rise of
Molecular Immunology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
5. Podolsky SH. Cultural Divergence: Elie Metchnikoff’s Bacillus Bulgaricus Therapy and his
Underlying Conception of Health. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 1998;72: 1-27.
6. Podolsky SH, Zembowicz A, Schoen FJ, Benjamin RJ, and Sonna LA. Massive Myocardial Necrosis
in Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Archives of
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 1999;123: 937-940.
7. Podolsky SH. The Changing Fate of Pneumonia as a Public Health Concern in Twentieth-Century
America and Beyond. American Journal of Public Health 2005;95: 2144-2154.
8. Podolsky SH, Tauber AI. Nietzsche’s Conception of Health: The Idealization of Struggle. In Babich
B and Cohen RS, eds., Nietzsche, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 299-311.
9. Podolsky SH. Pneumonia before Antibiotics: Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in Twentieth-
Century America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
10. Podolsky SH. Quintessential Beecher: Surgery as Placebo – A Quantitative Study of Bias.
International Anesthesia Clinics 2007;45: 47-63.
11. Podolsky SH, Greene JA. A Historical Perspective of Pharmaceutical Promotion and Physician
Education. Journal of the American Medical Association 2008;300: 831-833.
12. Greene JA, Podolsky SH. Keeping Modern in Medicine: Pharmaceutical Promotion and Physician
Education in Postwar America. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2009; 83: 331-378.
13. Bryan CS, Podolsky SH. Doctor Holmes at 200: The Spirit of Skepticism. New England Journal of
Medicine 2009;361: 846-7.
14. Podolsky SH. Jesse Bullowa, Specific Treatment for Pneumonia, and the Development of the
Controlled Clinical Trial. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2009;102: 203-207.
15. Podolsky SH. Antibiotics and the Social History of the Controlled Clinical Trial, 1950-1970. Journal
of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2010;65: 327-367.
16. Podolsky SH, Greene JA. Academic-industrial Relations before the Blockbuster Drugs: Lessons
from the Harvard Committee on Pharmacotherapy, 1939-1943. Academic Medicine 2011;86: 496-
501.
17. Podolsky SH, Davey Smith, G. Park’s Story and Winters’ Tale: Alternate Allocation Clinical Trials
Page 8 of 9

in Turn of the Century America. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2011; 104: 262-268.
18. Podolsky SH, Greene JA. Combination Drugs: Hype, Harm, and Hope. New England Journal of
Medicine 2011; 365: 488-491.
19. Opinel A, Tröhler U, Gluud C, Gachelin G, Davey-Smith, Podolsky SH, Chalmers I. The Evolution
of Methods to Assess the Effects of Treatments, Illustrated by the Development of Treatments for
Diphtheria, 1825-1918. International Journal of Epidemiology 2011; forthcoming.
Non-peer reviewed scientific or medical publications/materials in print or other media
1. Podolsky SH, Tauber AI. Letter: Yogurt for Candidal Vaginitis. Annals of Internal Medicine
1992;117: 345-346.
2. Podolsky SH, Tauber AI. Review of “Origins of Life” The Central Concepts,” Quarterly Review of
Biology 1994;69:253-254.
3. Podolsky SH. Review of “Felix D’Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology,” Canadian Bulletin
of Medical History 1999;16: 366-367.
4. Podolsky SH. Review of “Heredity and Infection: The History of Disease Transmission,” Bulletin of
the History of Medicine 2003;77: 970-971.
5. Podolsky SH. Review of “Biomedical Platforms: Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late
Twentieth-Century Medicine,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2004;59: 602-
604.
6. Podolsky SH. The Importance of Archives for the History (and Practice) of Medicine and Science.
Journal of the History of Dentistry 2008;56: 127-130.
7. Podolsky SH. Review of “Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy,” Chemical Heritage News Magazine
Fall 2008.
8. Podolsky SH. Review of “Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed
Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs,” Nature
Medicine 2009;15: 361.
9. Podolsky SH, Bryan CS, editors. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters. Sagamore
Beach: Science History Publications, 2009.
Page 9 of 9