Jason Adam Wasserman

CURRICULM VITAE

JASON ADAM WASSERMAN

(April 2016)

Department of Biomedical Sciences
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

O’Dowd Hall #412

2200 N. Squirrel Rd.

Rochester Hills, MI 48309

Email:

Office: (248) 370-4627

Cell: (205) 937-1605

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 2007, Medical Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Title: American Refugees: An ethnographic study of the street homeless. Dissertation committee: Jeffrey Michael Clair (Chair), Kenneth L. Wilson, Jeffrey Hall, Christopher Taylor, and Max Michael.

M.A. 2005, Medical Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Title:

“Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward Euthanasia. Thesis Committee:

Professors Jeffrey Michael Clair (Chair), Ferris J. Ritchey, and Michael Flannery.

B.A. 2001, Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Focused primarily on medical ethics, under Professors James Rachels and Gregory Pence.

POSITIONS HELD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences (Bioethics), Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, 2013 – Present

- Faculty Advisor on Professionalism, Academic Success Team, 2014 – Present

Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, Department of Bioethics, 2010 – 2013

Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, 2007 – 2010

Senior Research Assistant, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Sociology, Medical Sociology Doctoral Program, 2002 – 2007

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Medical Sociology

Community Health

Bioethics

Homelessness

Clinical Practice/Communication

Qualitative/Ethnographic Methods

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Director, Community and Urban Studies Minor, Texas Tech University, 2008 – 2010. This is an interdisciplinary minor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech University. Responsibilities include advising students, organizing curriculum and affiliated faculty, promoting the degree minor, and maintaining the website.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Department of Biomedical Sciences (Bioethics), Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

Course Director: Medical Humanities and Clinical Bioethics(MHCB) 1 - Survey course in Fall

of M1 year that covers introductory ethical concepts, issues of clinical communication, and professionalism.)

Medical Humanities and Clinical Bioethics (MHCB) 2 - Survey course in

Winter of M1 year that covers more advanced ethical concepts, as well as macro and micro issues in health sociology and medical humanities.)

Medical Humanities and Clinical Bioethics (MHCB) 4 - “Experience with

Marginalized Populations.” For this course students rotated through various off campus sites such as a low-barrier homeless shelter and residential facility for adults with intellectual disabilities, interacted with and learned from clients and staff, to gain greater depth of understanding about the experience of illness and special challenges faced by particular groups.

Seminars Taught:

Bioethics through Film (MHCB 3)

Social Transformations in Medicine (MHCB 3)

Selected Lectures:

Historical Development of Professionalism in Medicine (MHCB 1)

The Physicians’ Social Contract (MHCB 1)

Power and Authority in Clinical Practice (MHCB1)

The Ethics of Difference (MHCB 2)

Social Disparities in Health (MHCB 2)

Fundamental Concepts of Illness Experience (MHCB 2)

Homelessness and Clinical Practice (Promotion and Maintenance of Health 4)

Foundations of Neuroethics (Neurology)

Lessons from Community Health Research (Capstone 1)

Qualitative Research (recorded resource for Capstone 1)

A Brief Introduction to Survey Design (recorded resource for Capstone 1)

Thinking Critically about Statistics (recorded resource for Capstone 1)

Child Homelessness: Social and Clinical Considerations (Behavioral Science)

Sickle Cell TBL (Heme-Lymph)

Department of Bioethics, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences

Courses Taught: Introduction to Bioethics (BETH 502)

Introduction to Bioethics – Research Methods Lab (Quantitative and

Qualitative; BETH 502-L)

Social Justice, Bioethics, and Medical Practice (BETH 510, delivered online)

Social and Ethical Transformations in Medicine: Past, Present, and

Future (BETH 510)

Bioethics through Film (BETH 510)

Lectures (College of Osteopathic Medicine):

Perspectives in Bioethics (MSII)

The Compassionate Physician (MSII)

The Value of Bioethics (MSI)

Managing Power and Authority Ethically (MSI)
Class, Race/Ethnicity, and the Use of Medical Technology (MSII)

Ethical Decision-making in Cases of Medical Futility (MSI)

Healthcare Equality (MSI)

Organ Transplantation (MSI)
Bioethics and Training for Professionalism (MSI)

Thinking Critically about Statistics (MSII)

Qualitative Research (MSII)

Service Learning: In AY 2011-2012, I directed a year long service learning experience for

students in the one-year master degree program in bioethics at KCUMB. They spent the fall volunteering and learning about a particular agency and the population they serve, and in the spring they developed a program or project that responds to a need they have identified in collaboration with those stakeholders. This was rated as incredibly valuable by the students, the volunteer organizations, and the university administration, but was suspended due to department-wide enrollment issues.

Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Texas Tech University

Courses Taught: Seminar in Medical Sociology (SOC 5381)

Psychiatric Sociology (SOC 5382)

Research Organization - Qualitative Methods (SOC 5332)

Origins of Sociological Theory (SOC 5308)

Sickness, Health, and Society (SOC 4381)

Sociology of Film and Photography (SOC 4307)

Doing Ethnography (ANTH 4305)

Development of Sociological Theory (SOC 3393)

Introduction to Sociology (SOC 1301)

Department of Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Courses Taught: Political Sociology (SOC 417)

Contemporary Social Problems (SOC 245)

Sociology of Cinema and Photography (SOC 244)

Introduction to Sociology (SOC 100)

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Hinote, Brian P.; Jason Adam Wasserman. 2016. Social and Behavioral Science for Health Professionals. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Available August 2016.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Jeffrey Michael Clair. 2010. At Home on the Street: People, Poverty and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-58826-725-2 (hardback); ISBN: 978-1-58826-701-6 (paperback).

Runner-up, Honorable Mention, 2010 Annual Book Award, Association for

Humanist Sociology

Book Chapters and Supplements:

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Jeffrey Michael Clair. 2016. “Controversies in the Provision of Services.” In Ending Homelessness: Why We Haven't, How We Can. Donald Burnes and David DiLeo, Editors. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society. 2014. Associate editor for topics related to race/ethnicity and homelessness. Senior editors: William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, and Stella Quah. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.

Hinote, Brian P.; Jason Adam Wasserman. 2013. “Reflexive Modernity and the Sociology of Health.” Invited manuscript for Medical Sociology on the Move: New Directions in Theory. William C. Cockerham, Editor. New York: Springer Publishers.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Jeffrey Michael Clair. 2011. “The Medicalization of Homelessness and the Sociology of the Self: A Grounded Fractal Analysis.” Pp 29-62 in Studies in Symbolic Interaction, book series, Vol. 37, Norman K. Denzin and Ted Faust, Editors. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Ferris J. Ritchey. 2007. Test Bank Manual to Accompany the Statistical Imagination: Elementary Statistics for the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, by Ferris J. Ritchey. New York: McGraw Hill.

Hinote, Brian P.; Jason Adam Wasserman; Ferris J. Ritchey. 2007. Solutions Manual to Accompany the Statistical Imagination: Elementary Statistics for the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, by Ferris J. Ritchey. New York: McGraw Hill.

Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals:

Hajj Hussein, Inaya; Jason Adam Wasserman; Ameed Raoof; Abdo Jurjus. 2016. “Differences in emotional experience and coping with human cadaver dissection between a sample of US and Lebanese medical students: A pilot study.” Manuscript accepted at Medical Science Educator, online available, print forthcoming.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Shannon Stevenson; Claxton, Cassandra, Ernest F. Krug. 2015. “The Gap Between Theory and Practice: An Empirical Study of Moral Reasoning among Hospital Ethics Committee Members.” Journal of Clinical Ethics 26: 108-117.

--- Reply to commentary published Fall 2015, 26: 270-271.

Hans, Daniel J; Priyanka Dube; and Jason Adam Wasserman. 2015. “Autonomy at Odds with Empathy: Experimental Evidence Showing that Physician Guidance Promotes Perceptions of Physician Empathy.” American Journal of Bioethics – Empirical Research. Online Available, Print Forthcoming.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Naser Aghababaei; Drew Nannini. 2015.“Culture, Personality, and Attitudes toward Euthanasia: A Comparative Study of Iran and the United States.” OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying. Online Available, Print Forthcoming.

Suminski, Richard R.; Katie Heinrich; Jason Adam Wasserman, Rafia Raso. 2015. “Perceived Neighborhood Size: Implications for Physical Activity-Environment.” Journal of Physical Activity and Health12: 282-288.

Suminski, Richard R.; Jason Adam Wasserman; and Carlene Mayfield. 2015. “Walking during Leisure-Time in Relation to Perceived Neighborhoods.” Environment and Behavior 47: 816-830.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Richard R. Suminski; Juan Xi; Carlene Mayfield; Alan Glaros; and Richard Magie. 2014. “A Multi-level Analysis Showing Associations between School Neighborhood and Child Body Mass Index.” International Journal of Obesity 38: 912-918.

Wasserman, Jason Adam. 2014. “On Art and Science: An Epistemic Framework for Integrating Social Science and Clinical Medicine.” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39: 279-303.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Jennifer Fitzgerald; Merlin Sunny; Maria Cole; Richard Suminski; John Dougherty. 2014. “Non-Medical Stimulant Use Among Medical Students.” Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 114: 643-653.

Suminski, Richard R.; Jason Adam Wasserman; Carlene Mayfield; Emily Freeman; and Rachel Brandl. 2014. “Bicycling Policy is Indirectly Associated with Overweight/Obesity.” American Journal of Preventative Medicine 47: 715-721.

McClain, Rance; Jason Adam Wasserman; Carlene Mayfield; Andrew C. Berry; Greg Greiner; and Richard Suminski. 2014.“Injury Profile of Mixed Martial Arts Competitors.”Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine24: 497-501.
--- Reply to commentary published, Nov. 2014, 24: 519-520.

Suminski, Richard R., Jason Adam Wasserman, Carlene Mayfield, Micah Kubic, and Julie Porter. 2014. “Community Development Corporations can improve Research on Causal Associations between Environmental Features and Physical Activity.” Journal of Physical Activity and Health, online available, print forthcoming.

Suminski, Richard R., Terry J. Presley; Jason Adam Wasserman, Carlene Mayfield, Elizabeth McClain. 2014. “Playground Safety is Associated with Playground, Park, and Neighborhood Characteristics.” Journal of Physical Activity and Health, online available, print forthcoming.

Aghababaei, Naser; Jason Adam Wasserman; Javad Hatami. 2014. “Personality Factors and Attitudes toward Euthanasia in Iran: Implications for End-of-Life Research and Practice.” Death Studies 38: 91-199.

Aghababaei, Naser; Jason Adam Wasserman; Drew Nannini. 2014. “The Religious Person Revisited: Cross-cultural Evidence from the HEXACO Model of Personality Structure.” Mental Health, Religion, and Culture 17: 24-29.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Jeffrey Michael Clair. 2013. “The Insufficiency of Fairness: The Logic of Homeless Service Institutions and Resulting Gaps in Service.” Culture and Organization, 19: 162-183.

Suminski, Richard R., Jason Adam Wasserman, Carlene Mayfield, Elizabeth McClain. 2013. “Relationships between Perceptions of Environmental Features and Physical Activity.” Perceptual and Motor Skills 117: 49-64.

Aghababaei, Naser; Jason Adam Wasserman. 2013. “Attitude Towards Euthanasia Scale: Psychometric Properties, and Relations with Life Satisfaction, Religious Orientation and Personality.” American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 30: 781-785.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Brian P. Hinote. 2012. “The End of Modern Medicine: The Evolution of Disease and Transformations in Medical Practice.” Journal of Healthcare, Science, and the Humanities2: 45-56.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Jeffrey Michael Clair; Chelsea Platt. 2012. “The Homeless ‘Problem’ and the Double Consciousness.” Sociological Inquiry 82: 331-355.

Suminski, Richard R.; Erin K. Connolly; Linda E. May; Jason Adam Wasserman; Norma Olvera; Rebecca E. Lee. 2012. “Park Quality in Racial/Ethnic Minority Neighborhoods.” Environmental Justice 5: 271-278.

Suminski, Richard R.; Dean Hendrix; Linda E. May; Jason Adam Wasserman; James V. Guillory. 2012. “Bibliometric Measures and National Institutes of Health Funding at Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, 2006-2010.” Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 112: 716-724.

---Reply to commentary published Apr., 2013, 113: 266-268.

Hinote, Brian P.; Jason Adam Wasserman. 2012. “The Shifting Landscape of Health and Medicine: Implications for Childbirth Education and Practice.” International Journal of Childbirth Education 27: 69-75.

Henson, James; Jason Adam Wasserman. 2011. “Six in One Hand, a Half Dozen in the Other: An Ontological Analysis of Radical Islam and the Christian Right.” Journal of Culture and Religion 12: 39-58.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Jeffrey Michael Clair. 2011. “Housing Patterns of Homeless People: The Ecology of the Street In the Era of Urban Renewal.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 40: 71-101.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Brian Philip Hinote. 2011. “Chronic Illness as Incalculable Risk: Scientific Uncertainty and Social Transformations in Medicine.” Social Theory and Health 9: 41-58.

Wilson, Kenneth L.; Jason Adam Wasserman; Florin Lowndes. 2009. “Picture and Social Concept: Fractal-Concept Analysis of Advertising Art.” Visual Communication 8: 1-22.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Jeffrey Michael Clair; Kenneth L. Wilson. 2009. “Problematics of Grounded Theory: Innovations for Developing an Increasingly Rigorous Qualitative Method.” Qualitative Research 9: 355-381.

Reprinted in Data Collection Vol. 2. W. Paul Vogt, Editor, Pp. 401-427.

London: SAGE Publications, 2010. Part of the SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Kenneth L. Wilson. 2009. “Insight on Demand: Teaching Sociology Using Heart-thinking Analysis of Visual Imagery.” Journal ofCurriculum and Pedagogy 5: 134-148.

Wasserman, Jason Adam. 2009. “But Where Do We Go From Here?: A Reply to Tomso on the State and Direction of Postmodern Theory.” Social Theory and Health 7: 78-80.

Wilson, Kenneth L.; Jason Adam Wasserman; Florin Lowndes. 2008. “Saving Society from Instrumental Rationality: A Study of Mahler and Homeless Research in the Spirit of Adorno’s Critical Musicology.” Journal of Music and Meaning 7/Fall/Winter.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Leon S. Dure IV. 2008. “The Social Psychology of Amateur Ethicists: Blood Product Recall Notification and the Value of Reflexivity.” Journal of Medical Ethics 34: 530-533.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Michael M. Flannery; Jeffery Michael Clair. 2007. “Razing the Ivory Tower: The Production of Knowledge and African American Distrust of Medicine.” Journal of Medical Ethics 33: 177-180.

Clair, Jeffrey Michael; Cullen Clark; Brian P. Hinote, Caroline O. Robinson, Jason Adam Wasserman.* 2007. “Developing, Integrating and Perpetuating New Ways of Applying Sociology to Health, Illness, Policy, and Everyday Life.” Social Science and Medicine 64: 248-258.

*Authors listed alphabetically to indicate equal contribution.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Jeffrey Michael Clair, Ferris Ritchey. 2006. “Racial Differences in Attitudes toward Euthanasia.” OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying 52: 263-287.

Wasserman, Jason Adam; Jeffrey Michael Clair, Ferris Ritchey. 2005. “A Scale to Assess Attitudes toward Euthanasia.” OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying 51: 225-233.

Peer Reviewed Abstracts

Suminski, Richard R.; Jason Adam Wasserman; Carlene A. Mayfield, Larry W. Segars, and Alan Glaros. 2013. “Associations Between Environmental Characteristics and Weight Status in Elementary School Children.” Annals of Epidemiology 23: 589.

Segars, Larry; James Thorpe; Debra Willsie; Richard Suminski; Jason Adam Wasserman; and Carlene Mayfield. 2013. “Association between Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder and Ambulatory Care for Injury.”Annals of Epidemiology, 23: 594.