Valerie E. Stone

Valerie Ellen Stone (born 1958) is an American physician who is a Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. She serves as Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital. She specialises in the management of HIV/AIDS, health disparities and improving the quality of medical education.

Valerie Stone
Born
Valerie Ellen Stone

1958 (age 61–62)
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
HIV/AIDS
Institutions
Websiteconnects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/86687

Early life and education

Stone is from Montclair, New Jersey.[1] Stone has said that her early life inspired her career in medicine.[2] As a child she lost her grandmother to metastatic cancer, and as an undergraduate student she lost a cousin to pneumonia caused by HIV/AIDS. Stone was already a successful science student at high school, and decided that she would eventually pursue a degree in medicine.[2] As an undergraduate Stone studied chemical engineering, but whilst she enjoyed the science; she missed the interaction with members of society. Motivated by her grandmother, Stone became focussed on women's health.[2] She completed her medical education at the Yale University School of Medicine.[2][3] She worked as a DJ throughout her studies and lived in the Harkness dorm.[2][4] Whilst she was studying medicine, she saw members of her family, classmates and friends get infected with HIV.[2] She has called AIDS the "defining disease of [her] generation".[2] After graduating in 1984, Stone initially began residency in obstetrics and gynecology, but after internship, switched to internal medicine and completed medicine residency at Case Western Reserve University.[2] As a medical resident, Stone joined the American College of Physicians, and she was board certified in 1988.[2][5] She earned a Master of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She later completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at the Boston City Hospital.[2] Her first job was at Boston City Hospital, where she directed ambulatory care services.[3]

Research and career

After completing her training, Stone was appointed to the faculty at Harvard University.[2] At the beginning of Stone's career medicine there were limited treatment pathways for patients suffering from HIV/AIDS.[2] She treated her first HIV/AIDS patient in 1983.[6] In 1996, things dramatically changed, when highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) made it possible to manage AIDS like other chronic illnesses. Her research focussed on why HIV/AIDS was so prevalent amongst Black communities, and how to optimise the care of patients from underserved communities.[7][8] Whilst working at Harvard, Stone was an active primary care physician and a senior scientist at the Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at the Massachusetts General Hospital.[9] She was appointed a full Professor of Medicine at Harvard in 2011, and was the first African-American to hold such a position.[3][9]

In 2014, Stone was made Chair of the Department of Medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital, and was named the Charles S. Davidson Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.[9] She moved to the Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2019, where she was made the Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, while continuing her role at Harvard Medical School.[5] Here she also serves on the faculty of the women's leadership program.[10]

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Stone used social media to discuss the disproportionate impact of SARS-CoV-2 on communities of colour. In the aftermath of the murder of the unarmed African-American man George Floyd by policemen in Minneapolis, Stone wrote to the faculty of Harvard Medical School to describe the anguish that she felt.[11]

Academic service

Stone was appointed a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 1996.[2] From 2001 to 2014 Stone directed the primary care residency programme at Massachusetts General Hospital, and used the opportunity to transform the curriculum.[12] As part of this effort Stone created training programmes in cross-cultural care, health policy and women's health.[12] She was elected to the American College of Physicians Board of Regents in 2008, and held this position for over 6 years.[2][13] From 2012 to 2014 she served as Chair of the Education and Publications committee.[2] She serves on the Advisory Board of the Fenway Institute National LGBT Health Education Alliance.[12]

Awards and honors

Her awards and honors include:

Selected publications

Her publications include:

  • Aberg, Judith A.; Kaplan, Jonathan E.; Libman, Howard; Emmanuel, Patricia; Anderson, Jean R.; Stone, Valerie E.; Oleske, James M.; Currier, Judith S.; Gallant, Joel E. (2009-09-01). "Primary Care Guidelines for the Management of Persons Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus: 2009 Update by the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 49 (5): 651–681. doi:10.1086/605292. ISSN 1058-4838.
  • Mayer, Kenneth H.; Stone, Valerie E. (2001-09-15). "Strategies for Optimizing Adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: Lessons from Research and Clinical Practice". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 33 (6): 865–872. doi:10.1086/322698. ISSN 1058-4838.
  • Stone, Valerie; Ojikutu, Bisola; Rawlings, M. Keith; Smith, Kimberly Y., eds. (2009). HIV/AIDS in U.S. Communities of Color. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-98151-2.
  • Washington, Donna L.; Bowles, Jacqueline; Saha, Somnath; Horowitz, Carol R.; Moody-Ayers, Sandra; Brown, Arleen F.; Stone, Valerie E.; Cooper, Lisa A.; Writing group for the Society of General Internal Medicine, Disparities in Health Task Force (2008-01-15). "Transforming Clinical Practice to Eliminate Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare." Journal of General Internal Medicine. 23 (5): 685–691. doi:10.1007/s11606-007-0481-0 ISSN 0884-8734

Personal life

Stone is married to Kathryn Hall, a molecular geneticist at the Harvard Medical School.[2] They have one daughter who works in healthcare management.[2]

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References
  1. Butterfield, Stacey. "Treating HIV, teaching trainees motivate this internist". acpinternist.org. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  2. "Dr. Valerie E. Stone, MD, MPH, MACP, on tragic losses shaping her career and leading her to AIDS care | December 2019 | ACP". www.acponline.org. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  3. Butterfield, Stacey. "Treating HIV, teaching trainees motivate this internist". acpinternist.org. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  4. Soucheray, Stephanie. "A friendship endures from Yale to Harvard". Yale School of Medicine. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  5. "Valerie Ellen Stone, MD, MPH - Brigham and Women's Hospital". physiciandirectory.brighamandwomens.org. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  6. "CFAS Rep Update July 2019". AAMC. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  7. Overberg, Kenneth R. (2006). Ethics and AIDS: Compassion and Justice in a Global Crisis. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-5013-1.
  8. Ojikutu, Bisola O.; Stone, Valerie E. (2005-02-17). "Women, Inequality, and the Burden of HIV". New England Journal of Medicine. 352 (7): 649–652. doi:10.1056/NEJMp048318. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 15716557.
  9. admin (2014-08-04). "Mount Auburn Department of Medicine has new chairwoman in Valerie E. Stone". Cambridge Day. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  10. admin (2015-12-28). "Faculty". Career Advancement and Leadership Skills for Women in Healthcare. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  11. @valstonemd (30 May 2020). "I am not okay. We are not okay" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  12. Board, Faculty • Advisory. "Valerie E. Stone, MD, MPH » LGBT Health Education Center". LGBT Health Education Center. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  13. "Valerie Stone Elected to Board of Regents". Massachusetts General Hospital Giving. 2010-08-06. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  14. "Elnora M. Rhodes Award | sgim.org". www.sgim.org. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  15. "Massachusetts Chapter Laureate Awardees | Massachusetts | ACP". www.acponline.org. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  16. "Dr. Valerie Stone". Black Policy Conference. 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
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