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David Scott Jones, M.D.

David Jones, MD is the President and Director of Medical Education of The Institute for Functional Medicine, headquartered in Gig Harbor, Washington. He has practiced as a family physician with emphasis in functional and integrative medicine for over 30 years. He is a recognized expert in the areas of functional medicine, the science of nutrition and lifestyle changes for optimal health, and managed care, as well as the daily professional functions consistent with the modern specialty of Family Practice. Dr. Jones is the recipient of the 1997 Linus Pauling Award in Functional Medicine.  He is the Past President of PrimeCare, the Independent Physician Association of Southern Oregon (IPASO) representing the majority of physicians in the Southern Oregon area. He has served as Chief of Staff at the Ashland Community Hospital and as President of the Southern Oregon Society of Preventive Medicine. He was editor in chief of the TEXTBOOK OF FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE, published in 2005 and the lead author of a recently published document: 21st CENTURY MEDICINE: A New Model for Medical Education and Practice (2009), available at www.functionalmedicine.org. On April 14, 2011, Dr. Jones lectured at the 9th Annual Integrative Medicine Distinguished Lectureship: Personalized Medicine: Creating a Healing Partnership, sponsored by Oregon Collaborative for Integrative Medicine in Portland, Oregon.

PERSONAL HISTORY

After graduation from medical school and completion of post-graduate training, Dr. Jones in 1975 settled in Ashland, Oregon, a community at the southern end of the Rogue Valley near the Northern California border.  In Ashland, he has been involved in Family Practice for over thirty years. 

He has been active both in the clinical practice of medicine in the Rogue Valley, including being Chief of Staff at Ashland Community Hospital, as well as chairing and guiding the Southern Oregon Society of Preventive Medicine as acting President since 1977. 

Dr. Jones is the President and Director of Medical Education of the Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM), in Gig Harbor Washington.  Over the last two decades, he has helped guide the development of Functional Medicine.  The Institute provides continuing medical education for physicians and other healthcare professionals.  Educational activities focus on teaching a personalized approach to healthcare focusing on assessment and treatment of underlying causes of illness in order to maintain and restore health and improve function.  The Institute for Functional Medicine is committed to ongoing exploration and analysis of the scientific information that provides the foundation for understanding basic principles and processes of optimum healthcare.

For ten years, he was also the President and/or Medical Director of PrimeCare, the largest physician managed IPA in Southern Oregon with over 400 healthcare providers.  In that capacity, he was responsible for disease management projects focused on diabetes, congestive heart failure, asthma, low back management, depression, as well as other disease states.

His area of acknowledged expertise is in the science of nutrition and other critical life style changes for optimal health, functional medicine and managed-care, as well as the daily professional functions consistent with the modern specialty of Family Practice and functional medicine. Dr. Jones is chief-editor of the Textbook of Functional Medicine, published in late 2005. He has also authored Healthy Changes, a patient-centered 16-week Workbook, which focuses on health-risk reduction. This text has been used in his practice as well as other clinics in North America, Europe, and Australia.  He was primary author of the recently published: 21st CENTURY MEDICINE: A New Model for Medical Education and Practice, available at the IFM website, http://www.functionalmedicine.org. On April 14, 2011, Dr. Jones lectured at the 9th Annual Integrative Medicine Distinguished Lectureship: Personalized Medicine: Creating a Healing Partnership, sponsored by Oregon Collaborative for Integrative Medicine in Portland, Oregon.

Dr. Jones has been blessed with three daughters. His older daughters, Dana and Ursula, are married and raising families while coordinating their own professional careers.  His youngest daughter, Justine, has completed her BA degree at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon and is completing her first book. His wife, Kathi Bowen-Jones, teaches English and Social Studies at Ashland High School. Dr. Jones’s interests include tennis, hiking, literature and an abiding interest in the strange animals that we call humans.

CURRICULUM VITAE

David Scott Jones, M.D.

Clinical Office
595 N Main                           
Ashland, Oregon 97520
Phone: (541) 488-1116                      
Fax:      (541) 488-6409

IFM Office
4411 Pt. Fosdick Dr., NW, Ste 305              
Gig Harbor, Washington 98335                    
Phone: (253) 853-9282
Fax:      (253) 853-6766

EDUCATION

B.S.:  California State University at San Francisco, l967
(English literature/Linguistics)
Graduated with honors: Cum Laude

Pre-Med: California State University at Hayward, California (1969-70)
Grade point: 4.0

M.D.:  University of California at Davis, Medical School, 1974
Graduated with honors: Alpha Omega Alpha Society

Post-Graduate Training:  University Medical Center, Sacramento, California, l974-75

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, ACTIVITIES
& AWARDS

President of Institute for Functional Medicine, Gig Harbor, Washington, from 2000 to present

Director of Medical Education, IFM, Gig Harbor, Washington, 2000 to present

A.B.F.P.  American Board of Family Practice, since 1980

F.A.A.F.P.  Fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice

Physician and Surgeon: licensed in the State of Oregon & Washington (active) and California (inactive)

Past-President: PrimeCare (IPA of Southern Oregon: over 400 healthcare providers)

Past-President: PrimeHealth, LLC (Physician/Hospital Organization: PrimeCare/Asante Health System/Ashland Community Hospital

Past Medical Director: PrimeCare (IPA of Southern Oregon: over 400 healthcare providers)
President: Southern Oregon Society of Preventive Medicine

Member: Jackson County Medical Association
Oregon Medical Association

Emeritus Staff member: Ashland Community Hospital
Asante Health Systems/Rogue Valley Medical Center
Providence Hospital

Past Chief of Staff: Ashland Community Hospital  (1986-1988)

Past Staff Representative to Ashland Community Hospital Board  (1989-1990)

CME Co-Chair: Joint Staff for Asante Health Systems/Rogue Valley Medical Center &
Providence Hospital

Program Chair: Annual: “International Symposia on Functional Medicine”

Recipient: The Linus Pauling Award for Pioneering Work in Functional Medicine (1997)

Author:

A 21st Century Model for Medical Education and Clinical Practice (2009)
Chief-editor of the Textbook of Functional Medicine, published in late 2005
Healthy Changes: Patient-centered 16-week Workbook: health-risk reduction programmed text

9th Annual Integrative Medicine Distinguished Lectureship: Personalized Medicine: Creating a Healing Partnership, sponsored by Oregon Collaborative for Integrative Medicine (O-CIM), April 14, 2011

 
 

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