The Department's adjunct clinical faculty member, Dr. Timothy Jones, has accepted CDC’s nomination to become the new MMWR Editorial Board Chair. Dr. Jones completed medical school at Stanford University and a residency in Family Medicine and a Maternal/Child Health Fellowship at the Brown University/Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island program. He practiced in an underserved population in Utah before joining the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service in 1997. He now serves as the State Epidemiologist for the Tennessee Department of Health, overseeing programs including Immunizations, TB, HIV/STD, Emergency Preparedness, Foodborne Diseases, Healthcare Associated Infections, Vectorborne and Zoonotic Diseases, Environmental Epidemiology, Prescription Drug Overdose Epidemiology, and general communicable disease surveillance and control. In addition to serving on the MMWR Editorial Board for the past three years, Dr. Jones also serves on CDC’s Board of Scientific Counselors. He is active on the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, including serving as President (2013−2014) and Vice President (2014−2015). Dr. Jones has over 140 peer-reviewed publications on a variety of public health topics. Congratulations, Dr. Jones!
