Christopher Crenner, MD, Ph.D. is interim chair of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He has a book that will be out in 2004 from the Johns Hopkins University Press on authority and practice in the early twentieth-century private medical clinic of Dr. Richard Cabot. His historical research examines the doctor-patient relationship in the twentieth-century, medical practice, medical knowledge and diagnostic technology in the early twentieth century. He also practices and teaches as an internist in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
BRIEF CV
October 2003
Christopher Crenner, MD, Ph.D.
1979-1984 B.A., Classics, and Science in Human Affairs, magna cum laude Princeton University
1984-1993 Ph.D., History of Science Harvard University
1988-1993 MD Harvard Medical School
1993-1995 medical residency Brigham & Women's Hosp.
1993-1995 primary care residency Harvard Comm. Health Plan
1995-1997 Fellowship in General Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Hosp.
Harvard Medical School
2003 Assistant Dean of Student Affairs University of Kansas
and Director Orr Academic Society School of Medicine
2002 Interim Chair Department of History and
Philosophy of Medicine
KUMC
1998 Assistant Professor Dept History of Medicine
Dept of Medicine
Graduate Faculty MPH Program, KUMC
1996-1998 Instructor, Lecturer and
Assistant Director Teaching Programs Dept. of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
1995-1997 Fellow in Clinical Medicine Harvard Medical School
American Board of Internal Medicine August 1997
Local
Course Co-Director: ICM 802/Social Basis of Medical Practice; Course Co-Director: ICM 900/Issues in Clinical Medicine
Curriculum committee for Years 1-2 and Years 3-4 1999-pres
Search committee for Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management 1999
Dean's Advisory Council on Professionalism 1999
Chair, Biochemistry Course Review for Education Council 2001
Host of the New Century Society for the KU Endowment Capital Campaign 2001
Clinical
Coverage for medicine residents primary care clinic 1/2 day each week.
Faculty Group Practice Primary Care clinic 2 1/2 days each week
Attending general medicine inpatient service 1 month each year
Scheduled additional coverage provided for weekend general medicine inpatient consult service, urgent care walk-in clinic, and faculty group phone coverage afterhours and holiday.
National
American Association for the History of Medicine. Elected National Council 2002-2005
Chair, Local Arrangements, National meeting April 2002
Book Review Editor, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences .
American College of Physicians.
Society of General Internal Medicine. Abstracts reviewed for national meetings.
American Academy on Physician and Patient
Manuscript reviews for Bulletin of the History of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of the History of Medicine, Social History of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Ethics, and book ms for University of North Carolina Press.
Dunne Award . Brigham and Women's Hospital. Department of Medicine. Established by the family of a patient to acknowledge the compassionate care of patients by a medical intern. June 1994.
Richard C. Cabot Prize . Harvard Medical School. For graduation essay. June 1993.
Soma Weiss Student Research Day . Harvard Medical School. Featured presenter. April 1990
Matthew Strominger Prize . Harvard University. Department of the History of Science. Excellence in the history of medicine and public health. April 1990.
Mellon Fellow in the Humanities . September 1984. Harvard University, Department of the History of Science.
History of American medical practice in the 19th and 20th century
History, theory, and practice of the doctor-patient relationship
NIH/NLM Publication Grant for A Patient's Doctoring: Scientific Authority and Its Consumers in the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Practice June 2003 through May 2004.
Hartford Foundation Study Pilot Grant. Older Patient-Physician Relationships. January 2001 to June 2001.
Hartford Foundation Career Development Award. University of Kansas. July 1999 to December 2000.
National Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities. Dissertation support grant. July 1991 to June 1992.
Smithkline Beecham Medical Perspectives Fellowship. Research fellowship. July to August 1989.
CW Crenner. A Brief History of Timelessness in Medicine. In Historians at the Bedside , edited Jacalyn Duffin , forthcoming, Oxford University Press
CW Crenner. Diagnosis and Authority in the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Practice of Richard C. Cabot. Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 2002; 76(1): 30-55.
EL Krakauer. CW Crenner. K Fox. Barriers to Optimum End-of-Life Care for Minority Patients. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. 2002; 50(1): 182-190.
Crenner CW. Organizational Reform and Professional Dissent in the Careers of Richard Cabot and Ernest Amory Codman, 1900-1920. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 2001; 56(3):211-237.
CW Crenner. The Hospitalist and the Community. Society of General Internal Medicine Forum. 1999;22:5.
CW Crenner. Introduction of the Blood Pressure Cuff into U.S. Medical Practice: Technology and Skilled Practice. Ann Intern Med. 1998;128:488-493.
In Preparation :
Book contracted for publication: “Hidden Disease: Patients and Practice in the Early Twentieth-Century Office Clinic of Richard Cabot.” Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Ms. available upon request.
Selected talks : (* national/international peer refereed panel for acceptance)
CW Crenner. Nervousness and Race in Early Twentieth Century American Medicine. The Sally and Bruce Kantar Lecture in the History of Medicine. University of Minnesota, October 20, 2003.
CW Crenner. Diagnostic Technology in Private Practice: Expertise and the Market for Medical Commodities in Boston, 1880 to 1920. Paper Presentation. Society for the Social History of Medicine. Manchester, England, July 12, 2003.*
CW Crenner. Race, Disease, and Nerves: The Office Practices of Richard Cabot in the Context of the Medical Literature, 1900 to 1915. Paper presentation. American Association for the History of Medicine. Boston, MA, May 3, 2003.*
CW Crenner. Nerves in Early 20th Century Medicine. Invited speaker, Hannah Seminars in History of Medicine. McGill University, Toronto, Canada. November 2002.
CW Crenner . Placebo Diagnosis: Historical Analysis of Its use in One Medical Practice, 1900-1920. Selected for presentation in the Special Symposium on Medical Humanities and Conceptual Ethics at Society of General Internal Medicine national meeting in Boston, May 6, 2000.*
CW Crenner. Chair. Session on Health Policy in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. American Association for the History of Medicine. Charleston, SC. April 21, 2001.
CW Crenner. Placebo Diagnosis: Historical Analysis of Its Use in One Medical Practice, 1900-1920. Selected for presentation in the Special Symposium on Medical Humanities and Conceptual Ethics at Society of General Internal Medicine national meeting in Boston, May 6, 2000.*
CW Crenner. History of the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Invited AOA Professor of Medicine. Dept. of Medicine. University of Missouri Kansas City Medical School. May 2001.
CW Crenner. S. Tracy. BH Lerner. MR Grey. Context and Tradition: History of Medicine in Medical Education. Pre-Course. Society of General Internal Medicine. San Francisco, CA. May, 1999.*
CW Crenner. Doctoring: Seeking Care in Boston, 1900 to 1920. Original paper presentation. American Association for the History of Medicine. New Brunswick, NJ. May, 1999.*
CW Crenner. S. Tracy. BH Lerner. MR Grey. Context and Tradition: History of Medicine in Medical Education. Pre-Course. Society of General Internal Medicine. San Francisco, CA. May, 1999.*
CW Crenner. Section on the History of Clinical Trials. Panel moderator. American Association for the History of Medicine. Toronto, Canada. May 9, 1998.
CW Crenner. Psychosomatic Illness in the Practice of Dr. Richard Cabot: 1900-1920. Original paper presentation. Society of General Internal Medicine. Chicago, IL. April 25, 1998.
BH Lerner. CW Crenner. MR Grey. Images of Healing: Using Film to Teach Medical History. Workshop. Society of General Internal Medicine. Chicago, IL. April 25, 1998.*