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Donald Jones

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  Donald Jones is a globally recognized leader in digital medicine, digital therapies, technology enabled health services and virtual-first healthcare delivery. He is a sought out as a speaker, advisor and board member. Over the last 40 years he has worked across over 65 companies in pharmaceutical, medical device, wearable, smart apparel, material science and healthcare. He is an Operating Partner with Takeda Digital Ventures (TDV). He sits as an independent director on boards of VC and PE backed companies and is Board Chairman of Paris based DREEM. Don has advised the boards and executive suites of many of the largest pharmaceutical and medical device companies including Dexcom, Resmed, Cepheid, Sanofi, Teva, Astra Zeneca, Genentech, Otsuka, Novo Nordisk and the Verily/Sanofi joint venture, Onduo. He is a Senior Advisor with both McKinsey & Co. and the GLG Institute. 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 and the non-profit West Health Institute, raising over $130 million. At JP Morgan Healthcare in 2021, Don founded IMPACT, the Virtual First Healthcare Provider Collaboration, in partnership with the Digital Medicine Society (DiME). 

​Beginning in 2002, Don led Qualcomm Wireless Health Global Strategy and founded its healthcare subsidiary. 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. He was Founder and Chair of EMME, Mexico's largest consumer membership healthcare provider and largest private practice, with over 450 physicians. As advisor to the Board of AMR, he helped build the largest medical group in the US, under the EmCare brand (now Envision Healthcare), with over 25,000 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.
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Peter Hinssen
Author, The New Normal, The Network Always Wins, The Day After Tomorrow Chairman, Nexxworks

​Don Jones is in my opinion one of the most connected thought-leaders in the world of digital health. He combines years of experience in the operational field of healthcare and digital health, with a brilliant visionary outlook on the future of health to come. His presentations mesmerize the audience, filled with examples and real life cases, and delivered in wonderful clear manner sprinkled with his distinctive humor. His keynotes are a joy to observe. 
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Paul Sonnier
Author, The Fourth Wave: Digital Health

Building upon the work of famed futurist Alvin Toffler — author of The Third Wave — I enumerate the key drivers of The Fourth Wave and cite the work of other key innovators and thought leaders, whose work has formed the digital health body of knowledge: J. Craig Venter, Francis Crick, Eric Topol, MD, Donald Jones, George Church, Richard Resnick, Mick Watson, Dean Baker, Steve Case, Vinod Khosla, Bernard J.Tyson, Clayton Christensen, Evgeny Morozov, Marc Andreessen, Tim Cook, Kevin Plank, and Nikola Tesla.

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