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Dr. Sox graduated from
Stanford University with a BS in physics and received his MD from
Harvard Medical School. After serving as an intern and medical
resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, he spent two years
doing research in immunology at the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Sox then spent three years at Dartmouth Medical School, where
he served as chief medical resident and began his studies of medical
decision making. He moved back to California where he served on
the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine for fifteen
years. There he served as chief of the division of general internal
medicine at Stanford University and director of ambulatory care
at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. In 1988, Dr. Sox returned
to New Hampshire to assume the position of Joseph M. Huber Professor
of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine. In 2001,
he left Dartmouth to become the editor of the Annals of Internal
Medicine.
Dr. Sox is very active
on the national health care scene. In 1998, Dr. Sox served as
President of the American College of Physicians-American Society
of Internal Medicine. He also served as the President of the Society
for Medical Decision Making. He chaired the U.S. Preventive Services
Task Force and the Institute of Medicine Committee to Study HIV
Transmission through Blood Products. He also chaired the FCIM
Curriculum Project that formulated the competency-based approach
to medical residency education. He chaired the Institute of Medicine
Committee on Possible Health Effects of Exposures in the Persian
Gulf War and currently chairs the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee.
His books include Medical Decision Making, Common Diagnostic
Tests: Selection and Interpretation, and Graduate Education
in Internal Medicine.
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