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Donald JonesExclusively Advisory and Boards
Donald Jones is a globally recognized leader in digital medicine, AI and technology enabled healthcare and virtual-first healthcare services. As a senior executive he built two of the largest, multi-billion dollar, nationwide US healthcare service companies. He is a sought out as a speaker, advisor and board member. Over the last 40 years he has worked with over 70 companies in pharmaceutical, medical device, wearable, smart apparel, material science and healthcare services. He is a Co-founder of Takeda Digital Ventures, serving as Operating Partner for TDV for 6 years. He sits as an independent director on boards of multiple VC and PE backed companies. Don has advised the boards and executive suites of many large pharmaceutical and medical device 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, working with life science senior executives and served 7 years as a Senior Advisor with McKinsey & Co. Jones serves as Chief Digital Officer of the Scripps Research Translational Institute (SRTI), 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.
In early 2020, Don founded the Virtual First Care Coalition, in partnership with Jen Goldsack, CEO of the Digital Medicine Society (DiME). Over the past 5 years Don has been involved in founding virtual medical specialty practice companies in GI, Rheumatology, Emergency Medicine, Opthalmology, 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. Don also advises the largest edge-based AI company, Edge Impulse, in the industrial and healthcare spaces. Recently he returned to his EMS roots and co-founded Tele911, a unique solution in high value patient Emergency Department diversion, care navigation and coordination. Don holds a bachelors degree in Biology/Bio-engineering, a Juris Doctor and a MBA. He holds multiple issued patents. 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. Earlier in his career, Don was COO of MedTrans (re-named AMR), in which he was instrumental in growing from $4.5 million into the largest emergency services provider in the world (now Global Medical Response), with over 38,000 EMS personnel, 8000 ambulances and 550 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 a AMR Board Advisor, he helped build EmCare, a physician group (now Envision Healthcare), grow to over 28,000 physicians. 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. Every Body. Connected. © Collapsing Time and Space. © Every Body on the Net. ©
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