Resident Research Presentation Day

James R. Scott, M.D. is a graduate of the University of Iowa, receiving his Bachelors of Science degree in 1959 and later his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1962. He completed both his residency and a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at the University of Iowa. In 1973, Dr. Scott completed a fellowship in Reproductive Immunology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas, Texas.   

Dr. Scott is currently a Professor (Chair Emeritus) of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. Previously, Dr. Scott had been the Chairman for the Department from 1977 until 1995, and the H. A. and Edna Benning Presidential Professor from 1995 until 1999.

Dr. Scott is revered internationally as an expert on recurrent miscarriage, pregnancy in transplant patients, and immunologic problems in obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Scott has authored and co-authored an abundance of scientific publications and medical textbooks. Currently, he is the Editor–in–Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Co–Editor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Distinguished Visiting Faculty
Dr. Jerome H. Rudolph Memorial Lecturer

"HPV Testing for Triage and Screening for Cervical Cancer"

Howard W. Jones, III, M.D.

Howard W. Jones, III, M.D. is a graduate of Amherst College (1964) and Duke University (1968). He completed his residency at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, and then completed a fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston, Texas.

Dr. Jones is currently a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as the Director of Gynecologic Oncology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Jones has been at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine since 1980. 

Dr. Jones has authored and co-authored an abundance of scientific publications and medical textbooks. Most recently, he co-edited the ninth edition of TeLinde’s Textbook of Gynecologic Surgery. He is also Editor-in-Chief for Gynecology for Obstetrical and Gynecologic Survey.