The document is a curriculum vitae for Helen Kathryn Valier, an instructional assistant professor and director of medicine and society programs at the University of Houston. It details her education, professional career, classes taught, awards, committees, and publications. Specifically, it notes that she received her PhD in the history of medicine from the University of Manchester, focuses her research and teaching on the history of medicine and bioethics, and has authored books and articles on the topics of cancer research and the history of medicine in Britain and the United States.

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HELEN KATHRYN VALIER
The Honors College, 212 MD Anderson Library, University of Houston,
77204-2001, Houston, Texas
hkvalier@uh.edu
EDUCATION
1997-2000 CHSTM, University of Manchester
PhD in the History of Medicine, Dissertation Title: ‘The Politics of Scientific
Medicine in Manchester, 1900-1960’ (passed April 2002)
1995-1997 CHSTM, University of Manchester.
MSc in the History of Science, Technology & Medicine, Thesis Title: ‘Between
Science and Clinical Practice: A History of Clinical Pathology in Manchester
c.1880-1905.’
1992-1995 Churchill College, University of Cambridge.
BA (Hons) Natural Sciences Tripos (Biological); Part II History and Philosophy
of Science.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
2005-present The Honors College at the University of Houston
Instructional Assistant Professor and Director of the Medicine & Society
Program and Assistant Director to the Honors Program in the Health
Professions and associated BS/MD programs
Duties include: instruction and academic advising of all pre-health students
enrolled in the programs; creation and management of a pre-health internship
initiative; acting as faculty liaison for numerous on-campus pre-health student
organizations; outreach to high schools and other public speaking engagements.
Undergraduate classes taught:
 The Human Situation (Antiquity and Modernity)
 Readings in Medicine & Society
 A History of American Bioethics
 Disease, Health & American Medicine
 Science, Technology & Colonialism: 18th
-20th
centuries
 Technology in Western Culture
 Clinical Applications of Anatomy and Physiology
 Introduction to Health Professions
 Death & Dissection
 Introduction to the Health Professions
Graduate supervision in medical history topics for the Departments of History
and Sociology.
2002-2005 CHSTM, University of Manchester, Wellcome Research Associate
Classes taught (at undergraduate and graduate level):
 Identity, Science and the New Technologies
Designed and taught (at undergraduate and graduate level):
 Making Room for Medicine: the British Hospital in the Long Twentieth
Century
 Contexts of Terrorism: Culture, History, Technology

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2000-2002 Division of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, Temporary
Lecturer in the History of Technology
Undergraduate courses taught:
 Technology & Society 1
 Technology & Society 2
 Gender, Science & Technology
 Body in Western Medicine: Comparative Foundations
 Special Studies Modules for Medical Students
Graduate courses taught
 Historical Skills & Practices
 Concepts in Gender, Science & Technology
RECENT PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
2013 Provost Faculty Advising Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Faculty
Advising
2012 Distinguished Service Award, University of Houston Honors College Student
Governing Body
2008 University of Houston Faculty Development Initiative Award ($25,000)
2008 Temple Foundation Award for Medicine & Society Program Development
($300,000)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2014-present Chairs and Leaders Academy Program, University of Houston
2007-present Grant writing and curriculum development for the Program in Medicine &
Society, University of Houston
2005-present Program Manger for Medicine & Society
2000- 2002 Member of the Leeds hub of the Learning, Teaching and Support
Network (LTSN), a national organization devoted to the dissemination of best
practice in higher education. See resulting policy document at:
www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/cain/projects/bench/hstm.doc
RECENT COMMITTEES
2013-present Member of the Joint Advisory Board for BS/MD degrees, University of Houston
2012-present Member of the President’s Health Center Initiative, University of Houston
2009-present Development and Curriculum Committee, Honors Biomedical Sciences,
University of Houston
2007-present Development and Curriculum Committee, Program in Medicine &
Society, University of Houston
2004 -present ‘Constructing Cancers’, Project Coordination Committee, University of
Manchester
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Reader and referee for Manchester University Press, Oxford University Press.
RECENTLY PRESENTED PAPERS
April 2013 Houston: the story of American biomedicine, CPH, University of Houston
July 2010 ‘Rehabilitating the Southern Doughboy: Images if disability in the south after
WWI’, annual meeting for the Society for the Social History of Medicine,
University of Durham
April 2009 Future of Cancer Care in Texas, INSERM, Paris, France.

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May 2007 ‘US influences on UK biomedicine’, AAHM annual conference, Montreal.
March 2007 ‘Cancer care in national contexts’, Constructing Cancers Workshop,
University of Manchester, UK
July 2005 ‘Disability history and cancer: old soldiers and the therapeutic revolution
in cancer care’, Enabling the Past: Studies in the New Disability History,
University of Manchester
November 2004 ‘Nationalization, centralization and the influence of the United
States’ “war on cancer”: New models of clinical research in post-
WWII Britain and their effects upon organized British cancer research’, National
Cancer Institute, Bethesda.
April 2004 ‘Hospital-based clinical laboratories as a neglected area of study in the
‘laboratory revolution in medicine’ debate’, AAHM Conference, Madison
July 2003 ‘At Home in the Colonies: WHO-MRC trials at the Madras Chemotherapy
Centre in the 1950s and 1960s’, Devices and Designs: multidisciplinary
approaches to the study of technology, University of Manchester
July 2003 ‘Chronic Illnesses in the ‘Golden Age’ of Clinical Research’, Science: It’s
Advocates and Adversaries, Institute for Contemporary British History, London
June 2003 ‘Pavilion hospital design and the practice of scientific medicine in Britain
and the US in the early twentieth century: wither the administrative“unit”?’
Hospitals: Form and Function, University of McGill, Montreal
May 2003 ‘Academics and the Kidney: British and US Styles of Nephrology in the
1950s’, AAHM Conference, Boston
PUBLICATIONS
Books
With John Pickstone, Community Professions and Business: A History of the Central Manchester
Teaching Hospitals and the National Health Service (CHSTM and Carnegie Press, 2008)
Cancer and the making of US biomedicine (expected publication of 2015 with Palgrave Macmillan)
Articles
‘The Manchester Royal Infirmary, 1945-2002’, Wellcome History, Issue 25, Summer 2004.
‘The Manchester Royal Infirmary, 1945-2002: A microcosm of the NHS’, The Bulletin of the John
Rylands University Library of Manchester, 2007.
With Carsten Timmermann, ‘Cancer and the organization of clinical research in Britain’, Medical
History, Fall, 2008.
Book chapters
With Roberta Bivins, ‘Organization, ethnicity and the British National Health Service’ in J. Stanton (ed.),
Innovations in Health and Medicine: Diffusion and Resistance in the Twentieth Century (Routledge,
2002)
‘Hematology’, entry in Encylopedia of 20th
-Century Technology (Routledge, 2004).
Several entries in Thoemmes Biographical Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Scientists
(Thoemmes Press, 2004) and Encyclopedia of 20th
Century Technology (Routledge, 2005)

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‘At Home in the Colonies: The WHO-MRC trials at the Madras Chemotherapy Centre in the 1950s and
1960s’ forthcoming in Michael Worboys and Flurin Condreau (eds), Tuberculosis Then and Now:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Post-Modern Plague (McGill, 2009)
‘Uncertain Enthusiasm: PSA testing, prostate cancer, and proton therapy’ in Elizabeth Toon and Carsten
Timmermmann (eds), Patient Pathways (Palgrave Press, 2012).