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Biography: David R. Jones, MD

Dr. Jones graduated Phi Beta Kappa from West Virginia University and received his medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine where he was AOA. He completed his Thoracic Surgery Residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. In 1999, Dr. Jones joined the faculty at the University of Virginia where he became Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department. In 2013 Dr. Jones was recruited to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as Chief of Thoracic Surgery.

Dr. Jones is Professor & Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Executive Vice-chair of the Department of Surgery at MSKCC. He is also the Co-Director of the Fiona and Stanly Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research. He is the current Secretary of the AATS and Chair of the AATS-MSKCC Thoracic Surgery Oncology Group (TSOG) for clinical trials.  Dr. Jones is Associate Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He is recent past Chair of the NIH/NCI Tumor Progression and Metastasis (TPM) study section and currently serves on the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors. He serves on numerous national and international committees related to thoracic surgical research and clinical care.

Dr. Jones’s research focuses on mechanisms and drivers of metastases in lung cancer. His research has been funded by the NIH/NCI, Department of Defense, and the AACR. He has been the Principal Investigator or Co-PI on over 35 funded grants and currently holds 2 R01 awards from the NCI. He has published over 380 papers and has written over 35 book chapters. He was an early adopter of VATS anatomic resections and minimally-invasive esophagectomies and performs the majority of his operations using these minimally-invasive approaches.

1989 Chiba University Hospital Pulmonary Surgery 
1990 Department of Anesthesiology, Chiba University Hospital, Department of Intensive Care, Chiba Emergency Medical Center 
1991 Odawara City Hospital Surgery 
1993 Chiba University Hospital Pulmonary Surgery 
1994 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Chiba Cancer Center 
1995 Department of Pulmonary Surgery, Chiba University Hospital 
1997 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Chiba Cancer Center 
1998 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Omiya Red Cross Hospital 
1999 Chiba University Hospital Pulmonary Surgery Assistant 
2001 Postdoctoral fellow (University of Texas, USA) 
2003 Chief Medical Officer, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Chiba Cancer Center 
2005 Chiba University Hospital Respiratory Surgery Assistant 2008 Lecturer, Respiratory Surgery, Chiba University Hospital 
2010 Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University 
2021-Present Professor, Department of Respiratory Surgery and Breast Surgery, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University