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Bradley P. Stoner, M.D., Ph.D.
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Bradley P. Stoner, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Chief of STD Services for the St. Louis County Department of Health Medical Director of the St. Louis STD/HIV Prevention Training Center Office Location: 109 McMillan Hall (Hilltop Campus) Dr. Stoner, who joined the Infectious Disease division in 1995, holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He studied anthropology at Harvard University and McGill University, and received the MD and PhD degrees from Indiana University. He completed residency training in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center, and postdoctoral fellowship training in infectious diseases at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research focuses upon the clinical epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases and socio-cultural factors, which influence infectious disease risk in human populations. He also serves as Chief of STD Services for the St. Louis County Department of Health, and is Medical Director of the St. Louis STD/HIV Prevention Training Center. He is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. Research Interests My research addresses issues at the interface of anthropology, medicine and public health. I am particularly concerned with the analysis of political and economic underpinnings of health and illness in cross-cultural perspective, with particular focus upon domestic health issues. Other areas of interest include the study of health care access and decision-making, biomedicine as a cultural system, alternative/heterodox medical systems, culture-bound syndromes, and the role of anthropology in clinical and public health research. I have conducted field research in Peru and in urban North America. I currently conduct research on socio-cultural aspects of sexually transmitted disease control in developed countries, including analysis of sex partner networks; perception of symptoms and health seeking responses; concordance and discordance in sexual partnerships; and the ethnography of community risk. I work with colleagues in medicine and public health using ethnographic approaches to specific issues in STD/HIV transmission. This work draws from advances in epidemiology and mathematical modeling, as well as medical anthropology. Current research efforts focus upon elucidating the mechanics of syphilis endemicity in the St. Louis region, using qualitative and quantitative methods to address behavioral contributions to STD epidemiology. Ethnographic studies of STD within local contexts allow a more intensive examination of the impact of social and cultural influences on illness perception and response to therapy. Additionally, qualitative studies of the health care delivery process serve to highlight points of friction in the care-seeking process. Colleagues and I have also examined expanded STD control strategies through screening for STDs in emergency departments and non-clinical community-based sites.
Division of Infectious Diseases
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