Theodore Jones, M.D, F.A.C.O.G., associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology for the Wayne State University School of Medicine, was installed as president of the Wayne County Medical Society of Southeast Michigan at its 166th annual business meeting May 18.
Dr. Jones, a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., received his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. After serving three years in the National Health Service Corps in rural southeast Arkansas, he completed a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Wayne State University/Hutzel Hospital in Detroit. He has been a faculty member for the Wayne State University School of Medicine since completing that fellowship.
He has served as Residency Program director, associate chair for Education, interim chair, and director of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine for the WSU Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and chief of Obstetrics for Hutzel Women's Hospital. He now serves as vice chair of WSU/Oakwood Programs in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and academic chair and Residency Program director at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center (now Beaumont Dearborn Hospital) in Dearborn, Mich.
Dr. Jones is the founder and medical director of the Perinatal Infectious Disease Clinic at the Detroit Medical Center University Health Center, the only obstetrical clinic for pregnant women with HIV infection in the state. Since 1999, there have been no infected babies born to mothers compliant with the clinic program. In addition, he is the obstetric principal investigator for perinatal HIV infection prevention studies sponsored by the International Maternal Pediatric and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trial Network, or IMPAACT, a National Institutes of Health-funded network, and has been funded continuously for 25 years.
This year, Dr. Jones completed his first term as vice speaker of the 151st meeting of the House of Delegates, Michigan State Medical Society. He is the outgoing section chair for Obstetrics and Gynecology for the National Medical Association.
At the society's annual meeting the following individuals received special recognition awards from their peers:
Natalia Tanner, M.D., was awarded the Charles C. Vincent, M.D., Professional Achievement award for being nationally recognized in her field of expertise.
John Popovich Jr., M.D., was awarded the Peter McCabe, M.D., Contributions to WCMSSM award for consistent and continuous service for the good of the society.
The first Joseph J. Weiss, M.D., Memorial Essay Contest award was presented to Ko Un Clara Park, M.D., a fourth-year general surgery resident at Henry Ford Hospital, for her submission, "A Big Favor."
Other new society officers for 2016-2017 include Talat Danish, M.D., president-elect; Charles Barone, M.D., secretary; and Herbert Smitherman Jr., M.D., immediate past president.