June 01, 2022

Jeffrey A. Jones, M.D. (CAPT, USNR Ret.), is the incoming president of the Life Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Branch (LSBEB) of AsMA.

Dr. Jones recently retired from the U.S. Naval Reserves after 32 years of military service. His last tour of duty was as the Wing Surgeon for the Fleet Logistics Support Wing, Naval Air Station, Fort Worth, TX, and the USNR Aerospace Medicine Specialty Leader. He is currently Professor in the Center for Space Medicine and the Department of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine; Deputy Care Line Executive for Inpatients, and Chief of Urology in the Operative Care Line at the  Michael E. DeBa key Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Houston, TX. He currently chairs the MEDVAMC Robotic Surgical committee. He is on the faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX, and at the International Space University, having participated in >10 Summer Space Program sessions as Co-Chairman or Instructor. He is also a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)- designated Senior Aviation Medical Examiner (AME).
   Dr. Jones graduated Magna Cum Laude from Trinity University in 1981 and Alpha Omega Alpha from Baylor College of Medicine in 1984. He completed his general surgery/urology residency in 1991 at Indiana University Hospitals. In his civilian job, he served 13 years as a NASA/JSC flight surgeon as crew surgeon, deputy crew surgeon, ascent/re-entry surgeon, and has staffed the Mission Control Center Surgeon console during 25 Shuttle missions and 15 ISS increments. He served as the Lead Flight Surgeon for the International Space Station during the early ISS assembly phase, and then served as Lead for Exploration Medicine during the Constellation Program.
   Dr. Jones has served with multiple military units with multiple aviation platforms, first as a specialty surgeon and then as both a USN and USAF flight surgeon and Fleet Marine Forces officer, during his 32-year Navy career. He was Executive Officer, Commanding Officer, and Senior Medical Officer in Marine Air Groups 41 and 42, Officer in Charge for the Flight Light Aid Station in Al Asad, Al-Anbar Province, and surgeon at the 399th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has supported and been a crewmember during expeditions to both the Arctic and Antarctic, including the Haughton Mars Project, to Devon Island, and Operation Deep Freeze to Amundsen Scott South Pole Station.
   Dr. Jones is fellowship-trained & board-certified in Urologic Oncology and in Aerospace Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, American College of Preventive Medicine, and the Aerospace Medical Association. He is a member of more than 20 professional organizations. He is immediate Past-President of the Urological Society for American Veterans and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Government Service Urologists and the South Central Section of the American Urological Association. Regarding aerospace medicine leadership, Dr. Jones has served on the executive committee/board of governors for the AsMA Space Medicine Branch, Society of Navy Flight Surgeons, and American Society of Aerospace Medicine Specialists, as Vice-President then President of the Society of NASA Flight Surgeons, and on AsMA Council and for the Life Sciences Bioengineering Branch (LSBEB) as Member at Large and LSBEB Representative to AsMA Council.
   In 2000 Dr. Jones received the Julian Ward Memorial Aerospace Medicine Resident of the Year Award and in 2011, he was named the Bruce Jackson Naval Reserve Flight Surgeon of the Year. He has received more than 100 individual awards, including Meritorious Service, Air (combat-V), Commendation, Achievement, Iraqi Campaign, Outstanding Volunteer Leadership from the National Kidney Foundation in 1995, and Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award from BCM/SDU in 2016.