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Education
(full
Curriculum Vita here)
1976
Princeton University, Bachelor of
Arts, cum laude - Romance Languages and Special Program
in European Civilization
1980 Duke
University School of Medicine - Doctor of Medicine
1983 University
of Connecticut School of Medicine - Internship
and Residency in Internal Medicine
1985 Yale
University School of Medicine - Robert Wood Johnson
Clinical Scholars Program and Clinical Fellowship in
Internal Medicine
Dr. Matthews practices
general internal medicine in Washington, DC and teaches
at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He conducts
research and lectures nationally and internationally
on the doctor-patient relationship and the psychological
and spiritual dimensions of medicine, including the
role of faith, religion, and prayer in clinical care
and healing. He is the author of The Faith Factor: Proof
of the Healing Power of Prayer (Viking, 1998).
Dr. Matthews is a cum
laude graduate of Princeton University (1976), at which
he majored in Romance Languages with a special concentration
in European Civilization. He was graduated from Duke
University School of Medicine in 1980, and completed
his internship and residency in internal medicine at
the University of Connecticut in Farmington in 1983.
In the same year, he was named as a Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Clinical Scholar at Yale University School
of Medicine. At Yale, he studied clinical epidemiology
and began his research career by examining patients'
perceptions of physician performance in the hospital
and outpatient setting.
He joined the faculty
of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine
in Farmington in 1985 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine.
He was a co-founder of the Connecticut Chronic Fatigue
Study, one of the first major longitudinal studies of
this perplexing condition. In 1989, he was named
the George Morris Piersol Teaching and Research Scholar
of the American College of Physicians.
In 1991, he accepted
a position as Chief of Internal Medicine at the Minirth-Meier
and Byrd Clinic in Arlington, VA. This position offered
him an opportunity to integrate his religious faith
with his skills in internal medicine and psychiatry
and to develop his research interest in the spiritual
aspects of medicine.
In 1993, he joined the
faculty of Georgetown University School of Medicine
in the Division of General Internal Medicine, where
he continued to expand his clinical, teaching, and research
interests. In the same year, he was named as a Fellow
of the American College of Physicians. In 1997, he received
an Exemplary Paper in Humility Theology Award from the
John Templeton Foundation.
Dr. Matthews is also
the author of a four-volume research work, The Faith
Factor: An Annotated Bibliography of Clinical Research
on Spiritual Subjects; three documentaries: Body, Mind,
and Spirit, Shall We Pray?, and Healing Hands; a annotated,
videotaped lecture on religion and medicine, The Faith
Factor: Is Religion Good for Your Health?; a teaching
videotape on the doctor-patient relationship, Bedside
Manners; and over 65 peer-reviewed scientific articles,
book chapters, and other publications.
He is a member of numerous
national organizations including the Christian Medical
and Dental Society, the American College of Physicians,
and the Society for General Internal Medicine. He has
served on review boards for over a dozen professional
journals and was the founding editor of Faith and Medicine
Connection. He has been a member of several national
advisory boards and committees, including the National
Board of Medical Examiners, the Humility Theology Information
Center of the John Templeton Foundation, the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual-Primary Care Version of the American
Psychiatric Association, and the Bayer Institute on
Health Care Communication. He was the director of the
Physical Health Panel for the Scientific Progress in
Spiritual Research project of the National Institute
for Healthcare Research.
Dr. Matthews has lectured
at over 30 medical schools across the United States
and has been featured in numerous national newspapers
and magazines, including the New York Times Sunday Magazine,
Washington Post Magazine, USA Today Weekend, Hartford
Courant Sunday Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Christian
Science Monitor, Newsweek, Reader's Digest, Prevention,
Guideposts, Good Housekeeping, McCall's, and Christianity
Today. He has appeared on many national television and
radio programs, including the Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry
King Live, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CBS
Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Fox Evening News, CNN
Early Prime Time, 700 Club, One-on-One with John MacLaughlin,
and National Public Radio (The Diane Rehm Show and All
Things Considered).
He lives in McLean,
Virginia with his wife, Demetra, a certified public
accountant, and his two children, Karen, age 17, and
Louis, age 15. He enjoys family and church activities,
golf, coaching and refereeing sports, piano, travel,
and photography.
Dr.
Dale Matthews is available for speaking engagement. Please
click here for contact.
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