Building on the Seavey legacy through patient relationships and innovation
“The Seavey Clinic has been a great opportunity for me to do the best work that I can, and like Dr. Seavey, I love medicine and feel privileged to be a physician.”
At the Seavey Clinic, each patient’s trust is everything
Trust is essential to long-term relationships between physician and patient, and Jonathan Masor studied how Paul W. Seavey built trust—through careful attention to details.
“He was a very hard worker, very detailed oriented, and he expected that out of all of us,” Dr. Masor said. “He executed very well on being attentive, and he checked everything carefully. Medicine is a lot of details, and you cannot overlook the person.”
Today, as medical students observe Dr. Masor’s attentive clinical care, the Seavey high standard of practice continues—with an emphasis on practice. Because medicine is changing all the time, the best physicians constantly adapt, and Dr. Masor embraced the seismic change from analog to digital medicine.
Several decades ago, he volunteered to advise coders who produced Emory’s early electronic medical records. Their software locked up every few minutes, but as the glitches got resolved, soon clipboard charts were passé. Computers and cell phones shortened time and distance between physicians and patients.
Digitization and HIPPA regulations reinforced the importance of keeping medical information private and maintaining the highest ethical standards. At stake: patients’ trust.
That’s why today Dr. Masor strives for a methodical, comprehensive assessment of each patient. He makes the most of every minute with a patient. No matter if he’s working with Emory Executive Health patients (as he has for the past 30-plus years), patients in the Emory Special Diagnostic Services Clinic and in the Seavey Clinic’s primary care internal medicine practice, he attends to details and safeguards that information.
“That’s important to me,” Dr. Masor said. “I listen for information about their personal lives or business that is relevant medically. We have to be very careful because we’re privy to information that patients don’t tell anyone else.”
Emory University School of Medicine recognized Dr. Masor with the Paul W. Seavey Senior Clinician Educator Award in 1997. He models a timeless style of medical professionalism.
“It’s important to understand history, to know why and what we used to do in medicine and how we got to this point,” Dr. Masor says. “Teaching is a great privilege for me, to help students with my experience. They will see how I do something, and they may tell me that they learned a few things from me. When they have a challenging situation with a patient in the future, hopefully something that we helped them learn here—and how we taught them to learn—will help them.”
Perhaps the greatest validation of his work is his 2018 naming as the R. Randall Rollins Professor. He was also named a Master Clinician by the Emory Department of Medicine in 2017 and a Rollins Distinguished Clinician in 2013;
“I’m very humbled,” Dr. Masor said of the Rollins designations, part of an endowment from the Rollins family and their foundation. “I wish Dr. Seavey could have seen it. He worked hard on developing all of us, and this would show him that all of his hard work training me was worthwhile.”
Specialties
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Internal Medicine (Board certified since 1986)
Education and Training
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Medical School: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School 1983
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Internship: Emory University School of Medicine, 1984
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Residency: Emory University School of Medicine, 1986
Board Certifications
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American Board of Internal Medicine, 1986