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Donald JonesExclusively Advisory and Boards
Donald Jones is globally recognized in technology enabled healthcare, virtual healthcare and emergency medical services. As a senior executive he built two nationwide, multi-billion dollar US healthcare companies. He has worked with over 70 companies in pharmaceutical, medical device, wearable, smart apparel, material science healthcare and emergency medical services. He is a Co-founder of Takeda Digital Ventures, serving 6 years as Operating Partner. He is an independent director on boards of VC and PE backed companies and has advised the executive suites of companies including Dexcom, Resmed, Tandem, Cepheid, Sanofi, Teva, Astra Zeneca, Genentech, Takeda, Otsuka, Novo Nordisk, JSR Micro, Medmarc and the Verily/Sanofi joint venture, Onduo. He is a Senior Advisor with the GLG Institute and served as a Senior Advisor with McKinsey & Co. Jones served as Chief Digital Officer of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, collaborating with the renowned Eric Topol, MD, where they co-founded Scripps Digital Medicine, the world’s first digital health clinical trial center, a Physician Master's Program in Digital Medicine and the non-profit West Health Institute, raising over $130 million for its launch. Don spent 14 years on the board of Alliance Healthcare Foundation, the last two as Chairman and initiated it's $1 million innovation challenge grant (i2) program.
In early 2020, Don founded the Virtual First Care Coalition, in partnership with the Digital Medicine Society (DiME). Over the past 6 years Don has been involved in founding virtual medical specialty companies in GI, Rheumatology, Emergency Medicine, Ophthalmology, Primary Care and Heart Failure. He is on the boards of AI companies working on primary care, patient centric digital front doors, remote patient monitoring and chronic care management solutions and the largest edge-based AI company, Edge Impulse, in industrial and healthcare spaces. Recently he co-founded Tele911, a unique solution in high value patient Emergency Department diversion, care navigation and coordination working with EMS providers and health insurer. In 2002, Don joined Qualcomm and led its Wireless Health Global Strategy through 2014. In 2005 he founded the international Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, merging it with HIMSS in 2016. With Case Western University he founded its Engineering Masters Program in Wireless Health. Earlier in his career, Don was involved with implementing San Diego's first paramedic program, implemented it's STAR Team collaboration with the San Diego Police Department and conceived and implemented the first adult Critical Care Transport program, growing it into a $300 million line of business. Don was COO of MedTrans, in which he was instrumental in growing from $4.5 million into the largest emergency services provider in the world (now AMR/Global Medical Response), with over 36,000 EMS personnel, 7800 ambulances and 400 medical aircraft. During this time he integrated 138 acquisitions over a 3 year period. He was Founder and Chair of EMME, Mexico's largest consumer membership healthcare provider and largest private practice, with over 450 physicians. As an advisor to AMR, he helped build EmCare (now Envision Healthcare), growing to over 28,000 physicians. In 2000, JEMS Magazine named Jones one of the 20 Most Influential Persons in EMS, in 2010 Fierce Health IT named Don one of the Top Disruptive Forces in Health IT, and in 2014, EvoNexus recognized Donald Jones as Digital Health Innovator of the Year. Don conceived the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a global competition for a consumer device which successfully makes medical diagnoses. The XPRIZE was awarded in Hollywood in April 2017. Don holds degrees in Biology/Bio-engineering, a Juris Doctor and a MBA. He is an author of multiple issued patents. Every Body. Connected. © Collapsing Time and Space. © Every Body on the Net. ©
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