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CURRICULUM VITAE (selected items)

December, 2018

THOMAS R. COLE, PhD PRESENT TITLE: Director, The McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics WORK ADDRESS: 6431 Fannin Street, JJL400 Houston, TX 77030 CITIZENSHIP: United States of America EDUCATION: B.A. Philosophy, 1971 Yale University New Haven, Connecticut M.A. History, 1975 Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut Ph.D. History, 1981 University of Rochester Rochester, New York ACADEMIC & ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS: Professor, Department of Family Medicine Professor of Geriatrics Director, Quality Enhancement Plan PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Gerontological Society of America

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities American Bioethics Program Directors Health Humanities Consortium North American Network of Aging Studies European Network of Aging Studies

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HONORS AND AWARDS: Honors in Philosophy, Yale University, 1971. Rush Rhees Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1975-1978. Newberry Library Fellowship Summer Workshop in Family and Community History, 1976. National Science Foundation Grant for Supporting Doctoral Dissertation Research, 1978. NIMH Pre-doctoral Fellowship (approved without funding). The Gerontological Society of America, Fellow. Journey of Life nominated for Pulitzer Prize, 1992. McGovern Award for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 1997. National Humanities Medal nominee for “The Strange Demise of Jim Crow.” Texas Council for the Humanities, Washington, DC, 1998. Bronze Apple Award National Educational Media Association, Oakland, CA, May 1998, “The Strange Demise of Jim Crow." CINE Golden Eagle Award, Washington, DC, May 1998, for documentary, “The Strange Demise of Jim Crow." Fellowship from Soros Foundation’s Project on Death in America, July 2000- June 2001. Joseph and Ann Painter Distinguished Professorship in Teaching Excellence, University of Texas Medical Branch, October 1, 2001. UTMB President’s Cabinet Award, “Share Your Life Story Workshops,” September 2001- July 2002. UTMB President’s Cabinet Award, “UTMB’s Academy for Lifelong Learning,” September 2003-July 2004. Remi Platinum Award, “Living After Stroke: Conversations with Couples,” Thomas R.Cole, co-producer and Sharon Ostwald, Executive Producer, 40th Annual WorldFest-Houston Film Festival, April 28, 2007. Remi Gold Award, “Stroke: Early Recognition and Treatment,” Thomas R. Cole, co-producer and Sharon Ostwald, Executive Producer, 41st Worldfest International Film Festival, 2008. EDITORIAL POSITIONS: 1990-1994 Journal of Aging & Health

1985-2004 Medical Humanities Review 1988-1992 The Gerontologist 1989-1994 Generations 1993-1995 Encyclopedia of Gerontology 1995-2004 Journal of Aging and Identity 1995-2000 University Press of Virginia: Age Studies Book Series 1999-2001 Second Opinion 2001-Present Next Age Speakers Bureau 2003 Encyclopedia of Gerontology, 2nd edition 2004-Present Journal of Medical Humanities

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2006-Present Pain Physician 2007-2011 Journal of Aging, Humanities and Arts 2009-Present Aging Studies in Europe

SERVICE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON COMMITTEES: 2013-Present Executive Budget Committee 2013-Present Co-Chair, Interprofessional Collaboration Search Committee 2012-Present University of Texas System Faculty Advisory Council 2012 Search Committee – UTHealth President 2010-2011 Search Committee – UTHealth Vice President Advancement 2010-2011 Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) 2009-2010 Search Committee – UTHealth Provost 2009-2014 Interfaculty Council (IFC) 2016-Present Institutional Anatomical Oversight Review Committee SERVICE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL AT HOUSTON COMMITTEES: 2014-2015 Search Committee – University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Dean 2011-Present Interfaculty Council (IFC) President Elect 2007-Present Medical School Dean’s Administrative Council 2004-Present Promotion and Tenure Committee, Medical School, Department of

Family Medicine 2004-2007 PBL Executive Committee, Medical School 2004-2007 Facilitator, Faculty Renewal Group 2016-Present Academy of Master Educators, McGovern Medical School

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SERVICE COMMITTEES (other): 2014-Present Compassionate Care Group 2008-Present Geriatrics Education Consortium 2008-Present Institutional Anatomical Oversight Review Committee 2008-2011 University of Texas System Academic Leadership Institute 2007-Present Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center Institutional Ethics

Committee Search Committee, President of UTHealth Search Committee, Dean of McGovern Medical School Search Committee, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, McGovern Medical School Search Committee, Dean of School of Nursing SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY: March 2016-Present Board of Directors

Houston Hospice 2012-Present Humanities and Arts Committee-Gerontological Society of

America

2016- Present Member at Large, Steering Committee of the North American Network of Aging Studies

2018-Present Member, Board of Advisors, Body, Mind Spirit Institute, Jung

Center, Houston 2018-Present Member, Board of Advisors, Enhancing and Improving the

Engagement of Jewish Houstonians in Mental Health and Suicide Treatment and Services

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SPONSORSHIP OF POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS: 2013-2014 Benjamin Saxton, PhD 2014-2015 Claire Clark, PhD 2014-2016 Michael Nash, PhD 2015-2016 Keisha Ray, PhD 2016-2018 Alina Bennett, MPH, PhD 2016-2018 Christine Wieseler, PhD 2018- Timothy Houk CURRENT TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES: Climate Change and Human Health Course History of Medicine Lecture Series (sponsor and lecturer) Nurturing Resilience and Care: A Contemplative Approach (2016-2017) Introduction to Ethics and Professionalism (small group leader) Sacred Sites of Houston: How Faith and Healing Intersect (sponsor) Black Writers and the Struggle Against Racism (2018 summer seminar) Breaking Bad News (monthly co-teaching in Internal Medicine) Medical Spanish (sponsor) PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE: January 2019--Present Associate Member, Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston Sept 2010 – Present Associate Member UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) Dec 2005 – Present Adjunct Faculty Institute for Religion and Health Houston, Texas Sept 2004 – June 2008 Visiting Professor in Religious Studies Rice University Sept 2004 – Sept 2006 Beth Toby Grossman Professor in Spirituality and

Health School of Public Health

The University of Texas Health Science Center Houston

June 2001 - Sept 2004 Joseph and Ann Painter Distinguished Professor in Teaching Excellence

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and Graduate Program Director Institute for the Medical Humanities The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston March 2003 – Present Adjunct Professor Union Institute and University Sept 2000-2004 Adjunct Professor College of Humanities, Fine Arts, & Communication The University of Houston Sept 1999-2004 Professor Department of Family Medicine The University of Texas Medical Branch Sept 1999-2004 Professor

Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health

The University of Texas Medical Branch Sept-Dec Acting Director 1996 Institute for the Medical Humanities May-June Visiting Professor 1996 Karl Franzens University, Institute for American

Studies Graz, Austria Sept 1992-2004 Professor Institute for the Medical Humanities and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences The University of Texas Medical Branch 1987-92 Associate Professor Institute for the Medical Humanities and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences The University of Texas Medical Branch 1982-87 Assistant Professor Institute for the Medical Humanities and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences The University of Texas Medical Branch

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1981-82 Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Medical Jurisprudence and Humanities University of Nebraska Medical Center CONSULTING ACTIVITIES: Oct 1981 Small Group Training Workshop, University Associates. 1983-1984 Member, Houston Forum on Aging. March 1984 Consultant on Policies for Dementing Illness in the Elderly, Ethel

Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, Los Angeles, CA. 1989 Consultant, Family Medicine Faculty Development Center of Texas,

sponsored by Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Consortium for Geriatric Education.

Oct 1989 Consultant, "Ethical Issues in Health Promotion" seminar, School of

Public Health, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston.

1989-1992 Faculty Advisors Group, Texas Consortium for Geriatric Education

Centers, Student Enrichment Program. 1990 Advisory Board, Myerhoff Center, New York, NY. 1992 Task Force on Physician Assisted Suicide, Society for Health and

Human Values. 1992 Advisory Board, "Preparing the Clergy for an Aging Society" National

Council on Aging. 1992-Present Fellowship Advisory Committee, Brookdale Foundation, New York, NY. 1993-Present Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Committee on Older Adults. 1994-1995 White House Conference on Aging, Consultant on Quality of Life. March 1997 Institute of Gerontology, Consultant on Humanistic Gerontology,

Detroit, MI. May 1997 University of Louisville School of Medicine, Gheens Foundation

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Visiting Scholar and Consultant, Louisville, KY. May 1998 Consultant, Fordham University Third Age Center, “Why Extend Life." April 1999 United Nations’ International Year of the Older Person, Committee on Conceptualization of Aging, Hong Kong May 1999 Consultant, Berkeley Center on Aging, Berkeley, CA. June 1999 The Park Ridge Center Scholars-In-Residence Program, Chicago, IL. July 1999 Keynote Speaker, 4th Annual Summer Symposium on Aging, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC. August 1999 The Center for Gerontology, Spirituality and Faith, Scholar- In-Residence, Cupertino, CA. 1999-Present Advisory Board for the Center for Creative Retirement, University of

North Carolina at Asheville. 1999-Present NGO Committee on Aging, United Nations October 1999 Penn State College of Medicine, Department of Humanities, Hershey,

PA. March 2000 Consulting on Academic Leadership in Gerontology, The University of

Central Michigan May 2000 Consultant, Berkeley Center on Aging, Berkeley, CA. May 2001 Consultant, Berkeley Center on Aging, Berkeley, CA. February 2003 Consultant, Berkeley Center on Aging, Berkeley, CA. July 2003 The Center for Gerontology, Spirituality and Faith, Scholar- In-Residence, Cupertino, CA. April 2004 Consultant, Berkeley Center on Aging, Berkeley, CA. April 2005 Consultant, Berkeley Center on Aging, Berkeley, CA. 2005 – 2006 Consultant, Presidents Council on Bioethics 2009-Present Advisory Board, Network of Aging Studies in Europe

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2015-Present Advisory Board, Center for Narrative Practice, Boston, MA 2015-Present Board of Directors, Houston Hospice 2016-Present Advisory Board, Texas Medical Center Project on Zika policies RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: History of aging, death and the life cycle Humanistic gerontology Autobiography, oral history and aging Intergenerational and professional ethics Cultural history Humanism and the Medical Humanities Anatomy and Humanity Life Story Writing Faculty Health in Academic Medicine PUBLICATIONS: Abstracts, Editorials, & Teaching Guides Cole, Thomas and Mary G. Winkler, "Aging, Death and the Cycle of Life: The History of a Theme in Popular Western Art 1500-1900." Notes, Society for Health and Human Values Newsletter, 14(3): 3, 1984. Cole, Thomas. "Aging, Death, and the Cycle of Life." Antiquarian Bookman, September 9, 1985, 1631-32, 34, 36. Cole, Thomas. "Aging in American Autobiography: Meaning, Selfhood, and History." Human Values & Aging Newsletter, 8(5): 3-5, 1986. Cole, Thomas. "The Role of the Humanities in Aging." The Aging Connection, 9(6): 7. Cole, Thomas and Thu Tram T. Nguyen, “Who We Are, Where We Have Been: Making the Lives of Nursing Home Residents Visible.” The Park Ridge Center Bulletin, Issue 6, pp. 7, 12, October/November, 1998. Cole, Thomas and Kate DeMedeiros, “Share Your Life Story: A New Writing Approach for Elders." Aging Today, 20(4):9, July/August 1999.

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Rutledge, Alison, Ryan Gregory and Thomas R. Cole, “Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy (A Teacher’s Guide)” to accompany “Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy" a film for medical education and public broadcasting distributed by Fanlight Productions, 2001. Cole, Thomas, COMMENTARY: “We Have a Sacred Covenant with the Dead,” Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2002. Refereed Original Articles in Journals Cole, Thomas, "Family, Settlement, and Migration in Southeastern Massachusetts, 1650-1805: The Case for Regional Analysis." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 132 (July 1978): 171-185.

Cole, Thomas, "The Ideology of Old Age and Death in American History." American Quarterly, 31(2): 223-231, 1979.

Cole, Thomas, "The 'Enlightened' View of Aging: Victorian Morality in a New Key." Hastings Center Report, 13(3): 34-40, 1983.

Markides, Kyriakos and Thomas Cole, "Change and Continuity in Mexican American Religious Behavior: A Three-Generation Study." Social Science Quarterly, 65(2): 618-625, 1984.

Cole, Thomas, "The Prophecy of Senescence: G. Stanley Hall and the Reconstruction of Old Age in America." The Gerontologist, 24(4): 360-366, 1984.

Cole, Thomas, "Aging, Meaning, and Well-Being: Musings of a Cultural Historian." International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 19(4): 331-337, 1984.

Cole, Thomas and Mary G. Winkler, "Aging in Western Medicine and Iconography: History and the Ages of Man." Medical Heritage, 1(5): 335-47, 1985.

Cole, Thomas, "Thoughts on Old Age and the Welfare State: Political Economy, History, and Health Policy." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 33(12):869-73, 1985.

Cole, Thomas, "Aging and Meaning: Our Culture Provides No Compelling Answers." Generations, (Winter, 1985): 49-52.

Cole, Thomas, "When Conservative Medicine Triumphed and Feminist Values Failed." review essay of A Calculus of Suffering by Martin S. Pernick and Sympathy and Science by Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez. Hastings Center Report, 16(4): 43-45, 1986.

Cole, Thomas and Terri Premo, "The Pilgrimage of Joel Andrews: Aging in the Autobiography of a Yankee Farmer." International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 24(2): 79-85, 1986-87.

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Cole, Thomas, "Class, Culture, and Coercion: A Historical Perspective on Long-term Care." Generations, 11(4): 9-15, 1987.

Cole, Thomas, "The Spectre of Aging: History, Policy, and Culture in an Older America." Tikkun, (September/October): 14-18, 93-95, 1988.

Cole, Thomas, "Generational Equity in America: A Cultural Historian's Perspective. Social Science and Medicine, 29(3): 377-383, 1989.

Cole, Thomas, "Oedipus and the Meaning of Aging: Personal Reflections and Historical Perspectives." Generations, Fall, 1990.

Cole, Thomas and James Ellor, (eds.) Aging and the Human Spirit, issue of the journal Generations, Fall 1990.

Aumann, Gretchen and Thomas Cole, "In Whose Voice? Composing a Lifesong Collaboratively." The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 2(1): 45-49, Spring 1991.

Cole, Thomas, "Aging, Home, and Hollywood in the 1980's." The Gerontologist, 31(3): 427-430, 1991.

Cole, Thomas, "Generational Equity: Health Care and an Aging Society." The Philosophical Society of Texas: Proceedings, 55 (1992), 25-36. Cole, Thomas, "What Can It Mean to Grow Old? Historical Reflections on Aging in Postmodern Culture." In Depth, 2(3): 119-135.

Response to Roland S. Guyot, "A New Theory About the Ages of Man." International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 36 (2): 99-102. 1992.

Cole, Thomas, "Aging and the Sixties Generation: A Memo to President Clinton." Tikkun, 8 (1): 12-14, January/February 1993.

Cole, Thomas, "Generational Equity: Health Care and an Aging Society." Texas Journal of Ideas, History and Culture, 15 (2), Spring/Summer 1993. Members of SHHV Task Force, including Cole, Thomas, A Report entitled "Physician-Assisted Suicide: Toward a Comprehensive Understanding." Academic Medicine, v. 70, n.7, July 1995: 26-28.

Cole, Thomas, Barbara Thompson and Linda Rounds, "In Whose Voice? Composing an Ethics Case as a Song of Life." Journal of Long Term Home Health Care, 1995.

Cole, Thomas, "What Have We 'Made' of Aging?" Invited Essay, Journal of Gerontology, V. 50B, No. 6, November 1995, 5341-343.

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Cole, Thomas, "Gaining And Losing A. Friend I Never Knew: Reading Claire Philip's Journal and Poetry." Journal Of Aging Studies, Volume 9, No. 4, 329-334, Winter, 1995.

Holstein, Martha and Thomas Cole, "Reflections on Age, Meaning and Chronic Illness." Journal of Aging and Identity, 1996.

Levin, JS and Thomas Cole, “Song of Ourselves: a quantitative history of American autobiographies.” Gerontologist, 1996 Aug; 36(4):448-53.

Cole, Thomas, “Humanistic Gerontology and the Meaning of Aging." Chinese Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 460-463. September, 1996.

Cole, Thomas, “You Never Knew What Powers Lay Within You." The Journal of Long Term Home Health Care, Volume 16, Fall 1997.

Cole, Thomas and David Stevenson, “The Meaning of Aging and the Future of Social Security.” Generations, Volume 23, No. 4, Winter 1999-2000, 72-76.

Cole, Thomas and Barbara Thompson (Eds), “Anti-Aging: Are You for It Or Against It?,” Generations, Vol. 25, No. 4, Winter 2001-2.

Cole, Thomas, “Aging is Going out of Style.” Generations, Volume 25, No. 4, Winter 2001-2, 6-7. Cole, Thomas, “The Fall of Daedalus,” Generations, Volume 25, No. 4, Winter 2001-2, 66-68.

Gregory, Ryan S. and Cole Thomas R, “The Changing Role of Dissection in Medical Education,” JAMA, March 6, 2002, Vol. 287, No. 9, 1180-1181. Cole, Thomas, “To Grow in Wisdom,” Tikkun, Volume 17, No. 3, May 2002, 50-52.

Sierpina, Michelle and Thomas R. Cole, “Stimulating Creativity in all Elders: A Continuum of Interventions,” Care Management, Fall 2004, Volume 5, No. 3, 175-182.

Kate de Medeiros, Thomas Cole, Quinn Kennedy, Rosemary Lindley and Ruth O’Hara, “The Impact of Autobiographic Writing on Memory Performance in Older Adults: A Preliminary Investigation.” American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, March 2007, 15: 257-261.

Ruth E. Ray and Thomas Cole, Guest Editors: “Coming of Age: Critical Gerontologists Reflect on Their Own Aging, Age Research and the Making of Critical Gerontology.” Journal of Aging Studies, Volume 22, Number 2, April 2008.

Kate de Medeiros and Thomas Cole, Guest Editors: “Introduction to the Special Edition.”

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Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts, Volume 4, Number 4, October-December 2010, 235-237.

Nathan Carlin, Cathy Rozmus, Thomas Cole, Jeffrey Spike, Irmgard Willcockson, William Seifert Jr, Cynthia Chappell, Pei-Hsuan Hsieh, Catherine Flaitz, Joan Engebretson, Rebecca Lunstroth, Charles Amos Jr and Bryant Boutwell, “The Health Professional Ethics Rubric: Practical Assessment in Ethics Education for Health Professional Schools.” Journal of Academic Ethics, August 2011, 277-290.

Benjamin Saxton and Thomas R. Cole, No Country for Old Men: a search for masculinity in later life, International Journal of Ageing and Later Life 2012 7(2): 117-141.

Thomas Cole, “The Philosophy of Wisdom and the Wisdom of Philosophy”, The Hastings Center Over 65 blog, February 15, 2013. http://www.over65.thehastingscenter.org/tag/thomas-cole

Thomas Cole, The Journey of Life: An Interview with Thomas Cole, Reflections: magazine of Yale Divinity School, Fall 2013.

Thomas Cole, “Ethics Education in the Health Professions”, Inside Higher Ed, February 4, 2014. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/ethics-education-health-professions

Thomas R. Cole, “My Left Hip”, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2015), 24 , 473–478 .

Villarreal, Sylvia, Nash, Woods, and Cole,Thomas, “Nurturing the Healers: A Unique Program to Support Residents.” The Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2016 Oct;8(4):498-499.

Cole, Thomas and Saxton, Benjamin, “No Country for Old Men: Four Challenges for Men Facing the Fourth Age,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Autumn, 2017.

Chapters

Cole, Thomas, "Aging, Meaning, and Mental Health: Past, Present and Future." In Aging 2000: Our Health Care Destiny, Vol. 2: Psychosocial and Policy Issues, Ed. Charles M. Gaitz, George Niederehe, and Nancy L. Wilson. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985, 361-70.

Cole, Thomas, “'Putting Off the Old': Middle-Class Morality, Antebellum Protestantism, and the Origins of American Ageism." In Old Age in a Bureaucratic Society, Ed. David

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Van Tassel and Peter N. Stearns. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Cole, Thomas and Winkler, Mary. "'Unsere Tage zählen'. Ein historischer Überblick über Konzepte des Alterns in der westlichen Kultur." ["'To Number Our Days': An Historical Overview of Concepts of Aging in Western Culture."] In Alter und Alltag, Ed. Gerd Göckenjan und Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1988, 35-66.

Cole, Thomas. "Life History, Oral History, and Case History: The Story of Eldrewey Stearns, Integration Leader." In Personal Choices and Public Commitments: Perspectives on the Medical Humanities, Ed. W. J. Winslade. Galveston, TX: Institute for the Medical Humanities and Texas Committee for the Humanities, 1988, 16-32.

Cole, Thomas. "Aging, History, and Health: Progress and Paradox." In Health and Aging: Perspectives and Prospects, Ed. Johannes J. F. Schroots, James E. Birren, and Alvar Svanborg. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 1988.

Cole, Thomas and Patricia Jakobi, "Reflections on Ethics, Aging and Rehabilitation." Ed. In Practicing Rehabilitation with Elderly Patients, Ed. J. Dermot Frengley, Patrick K. Murray, and May L. Wykle. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1990, 191-205.

Cole, Thomas, "The Spectre of Aging: History, Policy, and Culture in an Older America." In Growing Old in America, 4th Ed., Beth Hess and Elizabeth Markson, (eds.), (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1990), 23-37.

Cole, Thomas, "Aspectos Eticos y Humanos en el Manejo del Paciente Geriatrico" ("Ethical Aspects in the Care of the Geriatric Patient"). In Temas Selectos sobre Humanismo en Medicina (Selected Topics in Humanities and Medicine), First International Congress on Humanism in Medicine, University of Anahuac, Mexico City, May 23-25, 1990.

Cole, Thomas and Dale Meyer, "Aging, Metaphor, and Meaning: A View from Cultural History." In Metaphors of Aging in Science and the Humanities, Ed. James Birren, et al. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1991, 57-82.

Cole, Thomas. "Oedipus and the Meaning of Aging: Personal Reflections and Historical Perspectives." In Aging and Ethics, Ed. Nancy S. Jecker, Humana Press, 93-111, 1991.

Cole, Thomas and Martha Holstein, "Interpreting the Formative Literature of Gerontology and Geriatrics: A View From American Cultural History, 1880-1930." In Before and After Modernity: Toward a Cultural History of Aging, Ed. by Christoph Conrad and Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz Cole, Thomas. "The Humanities and Aging: An Overview." Introduction. In Handbook of the Humanities and Aging, Ed. Thomas Cole, David Van Tassel, and Robert Kastenbaum, New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1992, (xi-xxiii)

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Monroe, William and Thomas Cole, "Primary Care: A Drama in Two Acts." In Voices and Visions of Aging, Ed. Thomas Cole, et al. New York: Springer Publishing Co, 1993, 205-234.

Cole, Thomas, "G. Stanley Hall and the Prophecy of Senescence." in K. W. Schaie and W. A. Achenbaum, (eds.) Aging and Social Structure: Historical Perspectives, New York, Springer Publishing Co., 1993, 165-181.

Cole, Thomas, "Medicine." in Companion to American Thought, Richard Fox and James Kloppenburg, (eds.) Cambridge: Blackwell Publishing, 1995, 319, 583.

Cole, Thomas, "Forward." to Charles Longino, Jr. and John Murphy, The Old Age Challenge to the Biomedical Model: Paradigm Strain and Health Policy, Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 1995, (v-vii).

Cole, Thomas and Martha Holstein, "Old Age: An Historical Perspective." in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 2nd edition, Ed. by Warren Reich, New York: Macmillan Publishers, 1995. Vol. 1, 97-100.

Holstein, Martha and Thomas Cole, "Long Term Care: An Historical Reflection." in Ethics and Long Term Care, Ed. by Laurence McCullough and Nancy Wilson, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, 15-34.

Cole, Thomas and Martha Holstein, "Aging and Ethics." Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Fourth Edition, Ed. by Robert H. Binstock and Linda K. George, New York: Academic Press, 1996, 480-497.

Cohler, Bertram J. and Thomas R. Cole, "Studying Older Lives: Reciprocal Acts of Telling and Listening." Aging and Biography: Explorations in Adult Development, Ed. by James E. Birren, et al. New York, Springer Publishing Co., 1996, 61-76.

Cole, Thomas, “Toward a Humanist Bioethics: Commentary on Churchill and Andre.” Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics, Ed. by R.A. Carson and C.R. Burns, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, 173-179.

Cole, Thomas and Ruth Ray, “Introduction” to Handbook of the Humanities and Aging, 2nd ed., Ed. by Cole, Ray, and Kastenbaum, New York: Springer, 1999, (xi-xxii).

Nguyen, Thu Tram T., Joal Hill and Thomas Cole, “Visible Lives: Life Stories and Ritual in American Nursing Homes." Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US: Practices and Policies, Ed. By Susan O. Long, London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 289-302.

Bevins, Michael and Thomas Cole, “Ethics and Spirituality: Strangers at the End-of-Life?” Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Ed. Powell Lawton, New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2000, pp. 16-38.

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Cole, Thomas, Text published in Seeing the Difference: Conversations on Death and Dying, Ed. by Christina Gillis, Occasional Papers of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, The Regents of the University of California and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, 2001, no. 24-25, pp. 97-103. Cole, Thomas, “On the Possibilities of Spirituality and Religious Humanism in Gerontology or Reflections of One Aging American Cultural Historian.” Cultural Gerontology, Ed. Lars Anderson, Westport: Auburn House, 2002, pp. 25-44.

Cole, Thomas, “On the Possibilities of Spirituality and Religious Humanism in Gerontology” Aging, Spirituality, Religion, Volume 2, Ed. by Melvin Kimble and Susan McFadden, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003, pp. 434-448.

Cole, Thomas and Faith Lagay, “How the Medical Humanities can Help Revitalize Humanism and How a Reconfigured Humanism can Help Nourish the Medical Humanities” in Practicing the Medical Humanities: Forms of Engagement, University Publishing Group, 2003, pp. 157-177.

Cole, Thomas and Claudia Edwards, “The 19th Century.” in The Long History of Old Age, Ed. Pat Thane. London: Thames & Hudson, Ltd., 2005, pp. 211-261.

Cole, Thomas, “Introduction,” Stories as Equipment for Living: Last Talks and Tales of Barbara Myerhoff, University of Michigan Press, 2006, pp. 1-14. Cole, Thomas, “Studying Torah with Dan Sterns” Festschrift in Honor of Dan Stern edited by Pam Diamond, New York: Sheep Meadown Press, 2006.

Cole, Thomas and Robin Solomon, “Reflections on Enhancement, Authenticity, and Aging” in Quality of Life in Jewish Bioethics, Lexington Books, 2006, pp. 99-112.

Cole, Thomas and Michelle Sierpina, “Humanistic Gerontology and the Meaning(s) of Aging,” in Janet Wilmouth and Ken Ferraro (eds.) Gerontology: Perspectives and Issues, 3rd Edition, New York, Springer Publishing Company, 2007, pp. 245-263.

Cole, Thomas and W. Andrew Achenbaum, “Transforming Age-Based Policies to Meet Fluid Life-Course Needs” in Challenges of an Aging Society, Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. 238-267.

Cole, Thomas, “The Uses of Faith after Rieff: A Personal Response to The Triumph of the Therapeutic” in Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past, Cambridge, UK, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2007, pp. 265-289.

Cole, Thomas and Martha Holstein, “Old Age” in Stephen Post (ed.), Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., McMillan Publishers, New York, 2007, pp. 108-111.

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McCullough, Laurence, Caskey, John, Wear, Andrew and Thomas Cole, “Scientific and Medical Concepts of Nature in the Modern Period in Europe and North America,” in B. Andrew Lustig, Gerald P. McKinney, and Baruch Brody (eds.), Altering Nature. Volume One: Concepts of “Nature” and “The Natural in Biotechnology Debates”, New York: Springer, 2008, pp. 137-198.

Cole, Thomas, in Dayle Friedman, Jewish Visions for Aging: A Professional Guide for Fostering Wholeness, Woodstock, VT, Jewish Lights Press, 2008, Preface.

Cole, Thomas, W. Andrew Achenbaum and Nathan Carlin, “Aging, History, and the Course of Life: Social Structures and Cultural Meanings” in K. Warner Schaie and Ronald P. Abeles (eds.), Social Structures and Aging Individuals, Continuing Challenges, New York: Springer, 2008, pp. 233-254.

Cole, Thomas, “Preface”, A Glorious Adventure, by Carter Williams, Pioneer Press, 2008.

Cole, Thomas and Nathan Carlin, “Faculty Health and the Crisis of Meaning: Humanistic Diagnosis and Treatment,” Faculty Health in Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2009, pp. 147-164.

Cole, Thomas, “Introduction”, Full Moon at Noontide, by Ann Putnam, Southern Methodist University Press, 2009.

Cole, Thomas and Ruth Ray, “The Humanistic Study of Aging Past and Present,”in Sheying Chan and Jason L. Powell (eds.) Aging in Perspective and the Case of China Issues and Approaches, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2011, pp. 13-32.

Cole, Thomas, “After the Life Cycle: The Moral challenges of Later Life,” in Rabbi William Cutter, PhD (ed.) Midrash and Medicine Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition, Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2011, pp. 137-159.

Cole, Thomas and Nathan Carlin, “Maldynia as Muse: A Recent Experiment in the Visual Arts and Medical Humanities,” in James Giordano (ed.) Maldynia Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Illness of Chronic Pain, New York: CRC Press, 2011, pp. 103-122.

Carlin, N., Cole, T., and Strobel, H.: Guidance from the humanities for professional formation. In M. Cobb, C. Puchalski, & B. Rumbold (eds). Oxford textbook of spirituality in healthcare (pp. 443-450). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Cole, Thomas and Saxton, Benjamin, “’Old Age isn’t a Battle, It’s a Massacre’: Reading Philip Roth’s Everyman, in Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester Friedman, Health Humanities Reader, (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2014), pp. 285-294. Kline, David and Cole, Thomas, "Towards a New Humanism in the Age of Anthropogenic Climate Change: On Sylvia Wynter" Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Reference

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Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier Press, 2017 Books Cole, Thomas and Sally Gadow, (eds.) What Does It Mean to Grow Old?: Reflections from the Humanities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1986. Polisar, Donna, Thomas Cole, Larry Wygant, and Cielo Perdomo, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?: An Annotated Bibliography of Aging and the Humanities. Washington, D.C.: Gerontological Society of America, 1988. Cole, Thomas. The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Cole, Thomas, David Van Tassel, and Robert Kastenbaum, (eds.) Handbook of the Humanities and Aging. Springer Publishing Co., 1992. Cole, Thomas, W. Andrew Achenbaum, Patricia Jakobi, and Robert Kastenbaum, (eds.) Voices and Visions of Aging: a Critical Gerontology. Springer Publishing Co., 1993. Cole, Thomas and Mary G. Winkler, (eds.) The Oxford Book of Aging. Oxford University Press, 1994. Cole, Thomas. No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston, Texas. University of Texas Press, 1997. Cole, Thomas, Ruth Ray and Robert Kastenbaum (eds.) Second Edition, Handbook of the Humanities and Aging. Springer Publishing Co., 1999. Cole, Thomas (Project Director), On Equal Footing: A Memoir, by Quentin R. Mease, Eakin’s Press, 2001. Carson, R.A., Chester Burns and Thomas R. Cole (eds.) Practicing the Medical Humanities: Forms of Engagement, University Publishing Group, 2003. Cole, Thomas, Thelma Jean Goodrich and Ellen Gritz (eds.) Faculty Health in Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2009. Cole, Thomas, Ruth Ray and Robert Kastenbaum (eds.) Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Spike, Jeffrey, Thomas Cole, Richard Buday, Freeman Williams, and Mary Ann Pendino, The Brewsters, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth),

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August 2011. Cole, Thomas, Nathan Carlin and Ron Carson. An Introduction to Medical Humanities, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Banner, Olivia, Nathan Carlin, and Thomas Cole (eds.) Teaching Health Humanities (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019) Cole, Thomas A Country for Old Men (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019) Kate deMedeiros and Thomas Cole (eds.) Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging (in progress) Reviews Cole, Thomas. Review of "Aging and the Elderly," In Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Summer 1980. Cole, Thomas. Review of Experiencing the Life Cycle: A Social Psychology of Aging. by Karp and Yoels. In Choice Magazine, 20(9): 1374, 1983. Cole, Thomas. Review of Aging and Vitality. by Fries and Crapo. In The Gerontologist, 23(3): 329, 1983. Cole, Thomas. Review of The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying. by Lynne Ann DeSpelder and Albert Lee Strickland. In Choice Magazine, November 1983, p. 357. Cole, Thomas. Review of The Social Consequences of Long Life. by Holger Stub. In International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 19(2): 173-175, 1984. Cole, Thomas. Review of Beyond Sixty-Five. by Carole Haber. In Journal of Social History, Spring 1985, 502-504. Cole, Thomas. Review of Plain Pictures of Plain Doctoring: Vernacular Expression in New Deal Medicine and Photography. 80 Photographs from the Farm Security Administration. by John D. Stoeckle, M.D., and George Abbott White, The Journal of Southern History, 52(3): 487-88, 1986. Cole, Thomas. Review of The Art of Aging: A Celebration of Old Age in Western Art. The Gerontologist, 27(6), 1987. Cole, Thomas. Review of The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State. by Jill Quadagno. Journal of American History, 75(4): 1363-4, 1989.

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Cole, Thomas. Review of The Mind Is Not the Heart: Recollections of a Woman Physician. by Eva Salber, Medical Humanities Review, 5(1): 79-82, 1991. Cole, Thomas. Review of Lyndon Johnson, The Tragic Self. Jobe and Muslin. Journal of Southern History 58 (4), November 1992. Cole, Thomas. Review of Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History. Charles E. Rosenberg and Janet Golden (eds.) The Journal of American History, 660-661, 1993. Cole, Thomas. Review of Urban Elders. by Brian Gratton. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, V. 36(2) 99-101, 1992-93. Cole, Thomas. Review of "Zalman Schacter-Shalomi: Prophet of Post-Modern Aging?" From Ageing to Sageing. Tikkun, Nov/Dec 1995. Cole, Thomas. Review of "Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age." Ed. by David I. Kertzer and Peter Laslett, (University of California Press, 1995), Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Summer, 1997. Cole, Thomas. Review of “Make Haste Slowly: Moderates, Conservatives, and School Desegregation in Houston,” by William Kellar, (Texas A&M Press, 1999), The Journal of Southern History, V. 66(3), Aug. 2000. Cole, Thomas. Review of In the Arms of Others: A Cultural History of the Right-to-Die in America, by Peter Filene, (Chicago: Dee, 1998), The Journal of American History, 735-736, September 2001. Cole, Thomas. Review of Death, Society and Human Experience, 7th edition, by Robert Kastenbaum, (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000), "Thanatology as Moral Philosophy," Contemporary Gerontology, 8(2):58-61 (Winter 2001.) Cole, Thomas. Review of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America, by Michael Sappol (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, xiv, 430 pp.), The Journal of American History, 223-224, June 2003. Cole, Thomas. Review of Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream, by Carl Elliott (New York: Norton, 2003, 384pp.), Medical Humanities Review, 61-63, Spring and Fall 2004. Cole, Thomas. Review of A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America, by Ian Dowbiggin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, xxii, 250 pp.), The Journal of American History, 307, June 2004. Cole, Thomas. Review of Can We Live Forever? A Social and Moral Inquiry, by Bryan S. Turner (Anthem Press, London, 2009.), Medical Studies, 301-303 pp, Vol. 1 (3) 2009.

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Cole, Thomas. Review of Gray Panthers, by Roger Sanjek (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2009.), The Journal of American History, 269-270 pp, Vol. 97 (1) 2010. Cole, Thomas. Review of Contesting Aging & Loss, eds. Janice E. Graham and Peter H. Stephenson, (University of Toronto Press, xvii+209pp, 2010.), Medical Anthropology Quarterly Cole, Thomas. Review of The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America, by Emily K. Abel, (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, x, 226pp, 2013), Journal of American History, Vol. 100, No. 4, March 2014. Cole, Thomas. Review of Aging and the Art of Living by Jan Baars, (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 304pp, 2012), The Gerontologist, April 2, 2014. Cole, Thomas R, Review of Grandma, The Gerontologist. 2016 Feb;56(1):155-7 Cole, Thomas R, Book Review: Lawrence R. Samuel, Aging in America: A Cultural History, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017 Cole, Thomas R. Book Review: Where Science and Ethics Meet: Dilemmas at the Frontiers of Medicine and Biology by Chris Willmott and Salvador Macip. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, July 2017 Other Professional Communications Presentations Keynote speaker, Governor’s Conference on Aging, Austin, TX, December 6, 1999.

Grand Rounds, “Ethics and Spirituality: Strangers at the End of Life?" Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, December 8, 1999.

“Prison, “A Stop,” During the Civil Rights Movement,” Screening/Discussion of The Strange Demise of Jim Crow, Beaumont Medium Security Federal Correctional Complex, Beaumont, TX, February 29, 2000.

“Purpose, Meaning, and Well-being in Later Life,” Our Aging Communities: A Regional Forum, The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN, March 21-22, 2000.

“In Whose Voice?” and “The Spiritual Situation of Our Age,” Academic Leadership in Gerontology, The University of Central Michigan, March 23, 2000.

Gerontology Grand Rounds, “The Uses of Personal Writing in Later Life: The Perspective of a Historian and Teacher,” UTMB, September 8, 2000.

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Lecture and Panel Discussion: “The Buena Vista Social Club – Its Relevance to Ageing,” The NGO Committee on Aging in Collaboration with the United Nations Programme on Ageing, Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the United Nations Department of Public Information, Tenth Annual Commemoration of the International Day of the Older Persons, New York, NY, October 5, 2000.

“Should We Sympathize With the Dead: Report from a Film in Progress,” Houston/Galveston Psychoanalytic Society, October 12, 2000.

“Aging, Civil Rights, and Mental Illness: A Case of Historical Recovery,” Psychiatry Grand Rounds, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX, October 25, 2000.

“Memory Stories, and the Life of Eldrewy Stearns” and “Personal Memory, Personal Stories,” Institute for the Humanities at Salado, Salado, TX, November 4-5, 2000.

Presented Paper: “Why Gerontology Needs Humanism, Religion and Theology,” Third International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology, Visby, Sweden, June 9-12, 2001.

“Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy,” Screening and Panel Discussion, 4th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Nashville, TN, October 25 & 26, 2001. Co-presenter: David Van Tassel symposium, “Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy,” Screening and Panel Discussion, Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, IL, November 17, 2001.

Co-presenter: “Postmodern Aging: The Changing Context of Values, Identity and Meaning,” Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, IL, November 17, 2001.

Presentation and discussion of “Life Stories” to UTMB’s President’s Cabinet, Galveston, TX, February 19, 2002.

“Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy,” World Premiere at the Double Take Documentary Film Festival, Durham, NC, April 5, 2002.

Screening and discussion of “Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy,” National Youth Leadership Forum, Galveston, TX, July 11 & 25, 2002.

Screening of “Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy,” to UTMB’s John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine, discussion lead by Alice Anne O’Donnell, M.D., Olser Scholar and Professor, Department of Family Medicine, September 17, 2002.

Presentation and discussion of “Life Stories” at the Retired Chaplains Retreat in conjunction with St. Luke's Episcopal Health System, Navasota, TX, October 22, 2002.

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“Fairy Tales and Spiritual Development in Later Life,” UTMB’s Academy for Lifelong Learning, Galveston, TX, October 28 and November 11, 2002.

Co-presenter: Recognition of benefactors to the Program for Innovation in Education at UTMB, Bayou Club, Houston, TX, November 14, 2002.

“Spirit, Culture, and Society”: GSA Humanities and Arts Committee Symposium, Boston, MA, November 24, 2002.

Keynote speaker: “Building Communities through Story Sharing,” Presented by Texas Consortium of Geriatric Education Centers, Baylor College of Medicine, the Huffington Center on Aging & UTMB, Galveston, TX, February 14, 2003.

“Revisioning “Triumph of the Therapeutic”: A Response to Phillip Rieff,” IMH Colloquium, UTMB, May 13, 2003.

“Aging, Angels & Stories,” Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven, New Haven, CT, June 4, 2003.

“Ethical Issues in Alternative and Complementary Medicine,” Ethics Grand Rounds, The Methodist Hospital, June 12, 2003.

“Ethics and Spirituality at the End of Life,” Grand Rounds, The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, July 11, 2003.

Keynote Speaker: “Aging and Bioethics: An Overview,” Presented by University of Nevada, Summer Institute on Ethics in Aging, Reno, NV, September 25, 2003.

Co-Presenter: “L'Chaim: The Joy of Aging,” Women of Reform Judaism 44th Annual Assembly, Minneapolis, MN, November 6, 2003.

“Writing and Healing: A Biography,” Union of American Hebrew Congregations 67th Annual Biennial Convention, Minneapolis, MN, November 8, 2003.

Co-presenter: “What Changes Will Be Needed in Social Policy? Who Will Determine Them?” IMH Colloquium, UTMB, February 24, 2004.

“Treatment and Enhancement: Humanistic Perspectives,” Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics, Philadelphia, PA, February 29 – March 1, 2004. “Framed Border Crossings: Race, Age, and Death,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Spring meeting, “Medicine and Media: The Delicate Balance”, March 12-14, 2004 at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX. “Ethics and Medicine: Care of the Patient and Family,” The Fifth Annual Texas Update in Cardiovascular Advancements, Dallas, TX, May 1-2, 2004.

“Aging and Society: Social-Scientific and Humanistic Perspectives,” The President’s

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Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, June 24, 2004. “Celebrating Creativity in All Elders: A Continuum of Interventions,” National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers, Austin, TX, October 14-17, 2004.

“Who Writes the Last Chapter? Humility, Wisdom and Life Story,” Baylor College of Medicine and the Institute for Religion and Health Conference, Storytelling: Discovering Life’s Meaning through Personal Narrative in the Context of Psychotherapy and Faith, Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Houston, TX, November 4, 2004.

“Dynamic Nature: The Ever-Changing Historical Conceptions of Aging,” Conference on Concepts of Nature and Biotechnology, Houston, TX, November 11, 2004.

“After the Life Cycle: The Moral Challenges of Later Life,” The President’s Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, December 2, 2004.

Presenter: “Personal Application of Transformative Care giving Practice,” The University of Texas Houston School of Nursing and the Institute for Religion and Health, Nurses Retreat, February 18, 2005.

British Association of Medical Humanities, Chair Plenary Session “Medical Humanities and Aesthetics”, Truro, UK, July 2005.

“Possible Selves & Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment: What Do We Know & What We Hope For,” The University of Texas Houston School of Nursing 2005-2006 Research Seminar Series, Houston, TX, January 27, 2006.

“More Than Words” – The Complex Science of Communicating with Patients and Families, End of Life Communications Impasse: A Dialogic Intervention, Plexus Institute, MD Anderson Cancer Center and The University of Texas Houston School of Nursing, Houston, TX, February 24, 2006.

“Still Life: the Humanity of Anatomy”, Ethics and Leadership Bridging Disciplines Program, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, February 27, 2006.

Screening and discussion of “In the Eye of the Storm: Stories of Healing in Katrina’s Wake,” Texas Medical Association Committee on Physician Health and Rehabilitation, Houston, Texas, May 5, 2006.

“The Ageless and the Ageful: The Soul’s Journey and the World’s Future” Workshop, “Being Ageless” Conference, Omega Institute, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 12-14, 2007. “Aging and the Changing Nature of the Human,” Colloquia-Spring 2007, Rice University, January 16, 2007.

“Spiritual Memory, Cognitive Loss and the Question of Life Extension,” Guest Speaker,

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Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health, Los Angeles, Ca., January 28-29, 2007.

“Aging: A Mystery to be Lived or a Problem to be Fixed,” Guest Speaker, Adat Shalom Synagogue, Farmington Hills, MI, May 8, 2007.

Conference Organizer with Thelma Jean Goodrich, “Academic Medicine: In Sickness and in Health,” Faculty Health Conference, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, July 19-21, 2007.

Co-Facilitator, The Eighth Annual Taos Writing Retreat for Health Professionals, University of New Mexico, Taos, NM, August 5-11, 2007.

Speaker, “Hope for the Future,” 21st Annual Selenia E. & Joseph C. Valley Conference, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, September 14, 2007.

Keynote Speaker, “The Moral Challenges of Later Life,” College of Letters and Science Art-based Degree Program, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI, September 20, 2007.

“Justice Between Generations: The Debate Over Health Care Resources”, Expert Speaker Program, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, October 9, 2007; Center for the American Studies, Graz, Austria, October 10, 2007; University of Applied Sciences Joanneum, Bad Gleichenberg, Austria, October 11, 2007; University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, October 12, 2007.

“After the Life Cycle: The Moral Challenges of Later Life”, Guest Speaker, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, January 24, 2008.

Grand Rounds, “Medical Intervention in Late Life: Intergenerational Justice, Changing Clinical Standards, and Choice,” Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, April 4, 2008.

Grand Rounds, “Technology, Choice, and the Ethics of Intervention in Geriatric Patients,” Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, April 11, 2008.

“Career Patterns for Bioethics Faculty”, Presenter, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 2008 Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, October 21-26, 2008.

AARP-UN Briefing Series on Global Aging at the United Nations, Presenter, New York, NY, February 2-4, 2009.

“Community Over Conflict: The De-Segregation of Houston”, Presenter, The Soul of Houston Conference, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, TX, March 27-28, 2009. “Spiritual Issues at End of Life”, Guest Speaker, Cunniff Dixon Foundation, The Art of

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Medicine Near the End of Life Symposium, New York, NY, May 8, 2009. “The Present Moment: Stories and Lives,” Keynote Speaker, The Seniors Place Annual Luncheon & Educational Forum, Houston, TX, October 14, 2009.

“The Heart of a Caregiver,” Keynote Speaker, The Seniors Place (Amazing Place) Annual Luncheon & Educational Forum, Houston, TX, October 21, 2010.

“Medical Ethics, Eugenics, and the Holocaust,” Moderator, Panel Discussion with Rabbi Samuel E. Karff, Cardinal Dinardo and Dr. Sheldon Rubenfeld, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, September 29, 2010.

“Strange Demise of Jim Crow,” Screening and Lecture, Black History Preservation Society, Austin, TX, October 29, 2010.

“The Guatemala Syphilis Experiments: Context, Ethics and Epidemiology,” Moderator, Panel Discussion, University of Texas School of Public Health, November 10, 2010.

“The Measure of a Good Old Age,” Panelist, 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, New Orleans, LA., November 21, 2010.

“No Country for Old Men: A Parable for Our Time?” Speaker, 16th Annual Lefeber Winter Series on Aging, UTMB, Galveston, TX, February 1, 2011.

“The Humanizing of Doctors,” Speaker, Kiwanis Club of Houston, Houston, TX, February 9, 2011.

“What Does It Mean to Grow Old?” Speaker, The Huffington Center on Aging, Houston, TX, April 13, 2011.

“A Country for Old Men: Research for Masculinity in Latter Life”, Keynote Speaker and Closing Panel Speaker, 7th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology, Maastricht, The Netherlands, October 4-10, 2011.

“Wholeness and the Ethics of Self-Care,” Speaker, The Jung Center, Houston, TX, November 9, 2011.

“Strange Demise of Jim Crow,” Screening and Lecture, The Holocaust Museum, Houston, TX, December 1, 2011. “Strange Demise of Jim Crow,” Screening and Lecture, Greater Houston Partnership, Houston, TX, February 17, 2012.

“Meet the Brewsters: A ‘Novel’ Approach to Inter-professional healthcare Ethics

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Education,” Talk and Presentation, 2012 Innovations in Health Science Education Annual Conference, Austin, TX, February 24, 2012.

“What’s In an Age: Aging and Ageism in the 21st Century,” Lecture, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, March 22, 2012.

“The Brewsters: Active Learning in Health Professional Ethics,” Lecture and Presentation, Second Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education, Paris, France, April 11-13, 2012. “The Brewsters – Medical Ethics, Choose Your Own Adventure Experience,” Lecture and Presentation, 4th Annual Technology Conference, United Way of Greater Houston, Houston, TX, June 28, 2012.

“Race and American Medicine,” Lecture, Fourth Annual Bioethics Bowl and Post-Bioethics Bowl Dinner and Discourse, Institute for the Medical Humanities, Galveston, TX, August 21, 2012.

“The History of the Doctor-Patient Relationship,” History of Medicine Lecture, Onstead Auditorium, MD Anderson Hospital, September 5, 2012. “When We Die,” Minerva Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the End of Life, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Dec. 20-12, 2012

“Moral Dilemmas Facing Healthcare Professionals,” Moderator, Medical Ethics Conference, Institute for Spirituality and Health, March 22, 2013.

“On Aging, Sex and Death in Philip Roth’s Everyman,” Lecture, Boundaries of Narrative, A Symposium in the Medical Humanities, UC Berkeley, San Francisco, Ca., April 19, 2013.

“The Strange Demise of Jim Crow,” Conversation and Lecture, TeCo/Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Dallas, TX, May 2, 2013.

“Nurturing the Healer, Closing the Empathy Gap: the Sacred Vocation Program for Medical Residents,” Lecture, Third Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education, Cambridge University Press, Paris, France, June 19, 2013.

“A Country for Old Men: Search for Masculinity in Later Life,” Lecture and Workshop, Jung Ctr., July 14, 2013. “In the Beginning: An overview of the development of humanities and arts scholarship within GSA,” Presenter, The Gerontological Society of America’s 66th Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 23, 2013.

“Old Age is not a battle, it’s a massacre,” Presenter, The Gerontological Society of America’s 66th Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 23, 2013.

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“Nonviolent Resistance and Dementia: The Story of Walter Wink,” Presenter, 8th International Conference on Cultural Gerontology, NUI Galway, Ireland, April 10-12, 2014.

“Medicine, Meaning and Morality: Teaching Medical Humanities,” Presenter, 4th Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education, Paris, France, June 19-21, 2014.

“Accomplishment and Limitation: Conversations with Distinguished Male Elders,” Keynote, Age, Ability, and Healthcare Summer Seminar at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, July 17-18, 2014.

“Composing an Ethics Case as a Song of Life,” Keynote, Age, Ability, and Healthcare Summer Seminar at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, July 17-18, 2014.

“Composing an Ethic’s Case as a Song of Life, The Story of Mrs. Green, An Alzheimer’s Patient on Hospice,” Presenter, Houston Gerontological Society Fall Program & Dinner, Houston, TX., September 11, 2014. “Humanistic Gerontology: What is it and why does it matter,” Presenter, Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2014 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 5-9, 2014.

“Walter Wink: Resisting Dementia,” Presenter, Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2014 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 5-9, 2014.

“Reflections on 45th Anniversary of the publication of de Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age (La Vieillese),” North American Network of Aging Studies Inaugural Conference, Miami University, Oxford Ohio, May 20, 2015. Commentator on Papers on “The Moral World of Elders”, North American Network of Aging Studies Inaugural Conference, Miami University, Oxford Ohio, May 21, 2015. Still Life: The Anatomy of Humanity, Documentary screening and discussion, Cambridge International Consortium of Bioethics Education, Reid Hall in Columbia University Building, Paris, June 25, 2015

“Sick,” Panelist, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX., September 25, 2015 “Patterns of Connection: Creative Conversations Between Bioethics and the Humanities”, Panelist, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), October 24, 2015 Interview with Dr. Thomas R. Cole about the student movements in Houston from 1960-1963, Eldrewey Stearns, and The Strange Demise of Jim Crow. October 30, 2015 "Humanities, Medicine and STEM", Panel Discussant, Rice University in coordination with Texas Humanities and the National Endowment of the Humanities, Houston, TX, December 8, 2015

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“Resisting Dementia: A Walk into Caring Community”, Lecture and Discussion, Oregon State University, January 27, 2016. “Dementia and Storytelling: An Autobiographical Field Report”, Lecture, Texas A&M University, April 14, 2016. “The Meanings of Aging” podcast with John Schuster, Ohio State University, October 3, 2016 “Still Life: the Humanity of Anatomy,” Medical Humanities Symposium, Baylor University, October 28, 2016 “The role of the humanities in gerontology,” session facilitator, Gerontological Society of America, November 17, 2016 “Climate Change, Human Health, and Professional Responsibility,” University of Texas Medical Branch, November 30, 2016 “ife Stories: Aging and the Human Spirit”, Keynote Speaker, Montana Gerontology Society, April 6, 2017. “Be The Solution: Empowerment Film & Summit”, Featured Panelists, Texas Southern University, April 22, 2017. “Lives and Ideas: Reflecting Voices from Age/ing Studies”, Plenary Panel Discussion, University of Graz and Medical University of Graz, Austria, April 28, 2017 “Love in the Age of Ethics,” Seventh Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education, Cambridge University Press, Paris, France, July 4, 2017. “Love in the (Old) Age of Ethics,” American Society of Bioethics and Humanties, Kansas City; October 19-22, 2017 “Writing, Reflection, and Resilience: Exercises in Reflective Practice,” Grand Rounds, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Care Medicine, McGovern Medical School, February 9, 2018. Plenary Panel Discussion with John Leland, Journalists Network on Generations, Boston, November 14, 2018 “Numbering Our Days,” Keynote Address at Gerontological Society’s Opening Session; Boston, November 15, 2018 Respondent, “Humanities and Arts Symposium on Purpose in Later Life,” Gerontological Society, Boston, November 15, 2018

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“Jackie's Story: A case of Family Decisions. Making and Dementia” Psychiatry Grand Rounds, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, January 9, 2019 Newsletters Cole, Thomas, Harry R. Moody, and Carter Williams, (eds.) Aging and the Human Spirit, semi-annual publication of Institute for the Medical Humanities, 1991 – 2003. Documentary Films Cole, Thomas, creator and executive producer; “The Strange Demise of Jim Crow: How Houston Desegregated Its Public Accommodations, 1959-1963" distributed by California Newsreel, 1997. Cole, Thomas, creator and executive producer; “Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy" a film for medical education and public broadcasting distributed by Fanlight Productions, 2001. Cole, Thomas, creator and senior editorial consultant; “Life Stories” a PBS sponsored film distributed by New River Media, 2001. Cole, Thomas, co-producer and Sharon Ostwald, executive producer, “Living After Stroke – Conversations with Couples,” distributed by Terra Nova Films, 2006. Cole, Thomas, co-producer and Sharon Ostwald, executive producer, “Stroke: Early Recognition and Treatment,” distributed by Terra Nova Films, 2006. Cole, Thomas, creator and executive producer, “The Present Moment: Living a Day at a Time with Alzheimer’s,” produced by Ttweak, 2009. Cole, Thomas, creator and executive producer, “The Heart of a Caregiver: The Burdens and Joys of Family Caregiving,” produced by Ttweak, 2010. Training Videos Thomas Cole and Michelle Sierpina, co-executive producers, Visible Lives: Story Boarding for Nursing Home Patients (UTMB Academy for Lifelong Learning: 2005). Thomas Cole and Michelle Sierpina, co-executive producers, “Share Your Life Story: A Program of Writing Workshops for Elders” (UTMB Academy for Lifelong Learning, 2005). Dissertations and Theses – Graduate Program Director, 1983-2004, UTMB Graduate School

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1991 Member, Dissertation Committee, Craig Braestrup, Ph.D. “Martin Buber’s I-Thou Relation Within the Sphere of Nature.”

1991 Chair, Dissertation Committee, Jaclyn Low, Ph.D. “Worthy of Great

Things: Development and Disability.” 1992 Chair, Dissertation Committee, Patricia Jakobi, Ph.D. “America’s Attitudes

Toward the Dependent Poor: Impediments to an Equitable National Health Care System”

1992 Member, Dissertation Committee, Van McCrary, Ph.D. “Dwelling in the

Shadow: Physicians’ Decision Making for Terminally Ill Patients” 1992 Member, Thesis Committee, Cielo Perdomo, M.A. “Healing Ethics: A

Virtue Theory Approach to Decision Making” 1992 Member, Dissertation Committee, Larry Wygant, Ph.D. “Medicine and

Public Health in Galveston, Texas” 1996 Chair, Dissertation Committee, Martha Holstein, Ph.D. “Negotiating

Disease: Senile Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease” 1996 Member, Dissertation Committee, Claudia Rappaport, Ph.D. “To Make

Treatment Effective: The Development of Medical Social Work at Massachusetts”

1997 Chair, Dissertation Committee, Gretchen Aumann, Ph.D. “Public Policy

and Pregnant Drug Abusers: The Rise of Fetal Rights” 1999 Member, Dissertation Committee, Faith Lagay, Ph.D., “A

Humanist/Rhetorical Critique for Arguments Concerning Germ-line Genetic Engineering”

2000 Member, Dissertation Committee, Donna Gauthier, Ph.D., “Decision

Making Near the End of Life: Delineating Preferences for Care – A Theoretical Approach.”

2000-2001 Member, Supervisory Committee, Laura Kicklighter, Ph.D.

Candidate, “Prophetic Voices: Religion’s Role in the Public Sphere.”

2000-2004 Member, Supervisory Committee, Toni Witherow, Ph.D. Candidate, “In the Best Interests of the Child: Challenging the Ethics of Adoption.”

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2001-2002 Member, Supervisory Committee, Christell O. Bray, Ph,D. Candidate, “The Relationship between Psychological Attributes, Self-Care Resources, Basic Need Satisfaction, and Measures of Cognitive and Psychological Health of Adolescents: A Test of the Modeling, and Role-Modeling Theory.”

2001-2002 Member, Supervisory Committee, Cheryl Carlson Erwin, Ph.D.

Candidate, “Evaluating Expertise: Towards a Humanistic Perspective on Expert Opinion.”

2003-2004 Member, Supervisory Committee, Jason Morrow, MD/PhD Candidate, “Awakening Humanity: Sources of Moral Authority and Responsiveness in Doctor-Patient Relationships.” 2004-2005 Member, Supervisory Committee, Alison Rutledge, PhD Candidate, “”Narratives of Mental Illness and Clinical Relationships.” 2004 Member, Supervisory Committee, Joal Hill, Ph.D.

Candidate, “Expertise and Citizenship: Public Bioethics and the Ethicist’s Role.”

2004-2005 Member, Supervisory Committee, Michelle Sierpina, Ph.D. Candidate,

Union Institute, “The Pentimento Project.” 2005 – 2006 Member, Supervisory Committee, Heather Green Wooten, Ph.D.

Candidate, “Battling a Terrifying Unknown: The Polio Years in Harris and Galveston Counties: 1930-1955.”

2006 Member, Supervisory Committee, Thu Tram Thi Nguyen, Ph.D.

Candidate, “Ethical Issues of Storytelling from Medicine.” Member, Supervisory Committee, Julie Kutac, Ph.D. Candidate, “Aging, Medicine, and the Eschatalogical Fantasy.”